Cloudflare vs Fastly Pricing 2026 Verified: Unmetered Bandwidth vs $0.08-$0.28/GB
Cloudflare bundles unmetered CDN bandwidth into flat plans ($0 Free, $25 Pro, $250 Business). Fastly meters per-GB ($0.08 NA/EU at 10 TB+, up to $0.28 in Africa). The right answer depends on traffic shape, not sticker price.
Verified 2026-06-17 against vendor pricing pages
Side by side
| Dimension | Cloudflare | Fastly |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Cloudflare bundles CDN, WAF, DNS and Universal SSL into flat monthly plans rather than charging per GB egress | Per-GB bandwidth plus per-10k-requests pricing |
| Cheapest published rate | $0 / unmetered | $0.0800/GB |
| Free tier | None published | 100 GB/mo |
| Starting plan price | Free | Free |
| PoP count claim | 330+ cities | 100+ POPs |
| Status | active | active |
Cost at 30 TB/month (illustrative example)
Acme Streaming Co. (illustrative example, not a real company) uses 30 TB/month with 60% North America, 30% Europe, 10% Asia Pacific. Numbers below are rack-rate floors using each vendor's cheapest published per-GB rate for the dominant region.
Rack-rate floor using cheapest published per-GB rate. Real invoices include request fees and premium features.
Rack-rate floor using cheapest published per-GB rate. Real invoices include request fees and premium features.
When to pick which
Pick Cloudflare when:
Sites that want predictable monthly cost and no egress meter.
Pick Fastly when:
Streaming, large file delivery, and any team that wants the Compute@Edge developer experience.