Methodology
Methodology 2026 Verified: Vendor Pricing Pages, No Inference, No Affiliate
Every rate on cdncost.com is fetched, by hand, from each vendor's own public pricing page on the date in the footer. Quote-only vendors are flagged with the URL we checked, not omitted. We accept no money from any vendor listed.
Verified 17 June 2026
Five principles
- Vendor-published only. If the vendor does not publish a rate, we say "Quote only" rather than estimating.
- Dated source URLs. Every rate links to the exact page we read and the date we read it.
- No inference. We do not multiply Cloudflare's plan price by some "effective per-GB" ratio and call it a rate.
- No affiliate links. There are no affiliate links anywhere on this site.
- Worked examples are labelled illustrative. "Acme [X] Co." is always tagged as not a real company.
Source registry
The 12 source URLs we verified on 2026-06-17:
| Vendor | Source URL | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ | 2026-06-17 |
| Fastly | https://www.fastly.com/pricing | 2026-06-17 |
| AWS CloudFront | https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/pay-as-you-go/ | 2026-06-17 |
| Google Cloud CDN | https://cloud.google.com/cdn/pricing | 2026-06-17 |
| Azure Front Door | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/frontdoor/ | 2026-06-17 |
| KeyCDN | https://www.keycdn.com/pricing | 2026-06-17 |
| BunnyCDN | https://bunny.net/pricing/ | 2026-06-17 |
| CDN77 | https://www.cdn77.com/pricing | 2026-06-17 |
| Vercel | https://vercel.com/pricing | 2026-06-17 |
| Akamai | https://www.akamai.com/solutions/content-delivery-network | 2026-06-17 |
| Edgio | https://edg.io/ | 2026-06-17 |
| StackPath | https://www.stackpath.com/ | 2026-06-17 |
Industry benchmarks
We do not publish industry benchmarks unless cited to a named, published dataset. We refuse phrases like "the average CDN customer pays X per GB" because that average does not exist as a verifiable number; the spread (Cloudflare $0 to Fastly $0.28) is too wide for an honest average.
What to do if you spot a stale rate
Email the vendor change to the address in the footer and we will re-verify within 7 days. We update the source registry and the footer date together.
Last verified June 2026.