Fastly Essential, $ 0.00/mo. on CDN
Essential has been discontinued on January 12, 2026 (added )
| Traffic price : | $ 0.12/GB |
|---|---|
| 🔌 Domains Allowed : | 10 |
| 💳 Payment Methods : | Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards |
| 🔨 Control Panel : | [In-house] |
| ✍️ Support Options : | EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-Free |
| 🌏 Server Locations : | United States |
| ⚑ Targeting : | UK US |
Original plan URL was https://www.fastly.com/pricing
📜 Plan description
Go further. Predictable spending that accelerates growth.
Best for: Small companies looking for a trusted solutions provider.
3TB global delivery per month
30MM Image Optimizer images per month
Secure up to 10 domains with Fastly TLS non-profit CA/BYO certificates
Standard support
Bandwidth for content delivery and streaming delivery is measured as Gbytes delivered from Fastly caches by region. Fees are calculated at the bandwidth rates. Rate reductions are applied automatically with greater usage.
HTTP and HTTPS requests are accumulated in units of 10,000 by region. Fees for content delivery and streaming delivery are calculated at the request rates.
Get a free trial, then pay as you go for content and streaming delivery across our global regions.
Bandwidth (per GB per region) Requests
Region First 10 TB Next 10 TB (per 10,000 requests)
North America $0.12 $0.08 $0.0075
Europe $0.12 $0.08 $0.0075
Asia $0.19 $0.14 $0.0090
South America $0.19 $0.14 $0.0090
Australia & New Zealand $0.19 $0.14 $0.0090
Brazil $0.28 $0.24 $0.0160
India $0.28 $0.24 $0.0160
Africa $0.28 $0.24 $0.0160
Service type | Monthly cost
Fastly TLS — unmanaged certificates or managed certificates from non-profit CA providers | $0 for first 5 domains / $20 per additional domain
Fastly TLS — managed certificates from commercial CA providers| $275 per domain
Shared certificate service* | $100 per domain
Shared wildcard certificate service* | $275 per domain
Features
Full website and streaming media delivery network
Instant purging
Origin shielding
Dynamic site acceleration
Web app and API protection
DDoS attack mitigation
Access Control Lists (ACLs)
TLS encryption
Global edge compute platform
Local debugging
Flexible microservice chaining
Edge data
Best for: Small companies looking for a trusted solutions provider.
3TB global delivery per month
30MM Image Optimizer images per month
Secure up to 10 domains with Fastly TLS non-profit CA/BYO certificates
Standard support
Bandwidth for content delivery and streaming delivery is measured as Gbytes delivered from Fastly caches by region. Fees are calculated at the bandwidth rates. Rate reductions are applied automatically with greater usage.
HTTP and HTTPS requests are accumulated in units of 10,000 by region. Fees for content delivery and streaming delivery are calculated at the request rates.
Get a free trial, then pay as you go for content and streaming delivery across our global regions.
Bandwidth (per GB per region) Requests
Region First 10 TB Next 10 TB (per 10,000 requests)
North America $0.12 $0.08 $0.0075
Europe $0.12 $0.08 $0.0075
Asia $0.19 $0.14 $0.0090
South America $0.19 $0.14 $0.0090
Australia & New Zealand $0.19 $0.14 $0.0090
Brazil $0.28 $0.24 $0.0160
India $0.28 $0.24 $0.0160
Africa $0.28 $0.24 $0.0160
Service type | Monthly cost
Fastly TLS — unmanaged certificates or managed certificates from non-profit CA providers | $0 for first 5 domains / $20 per additional domain
Fastly TLS — managed certificates from commercial CA providers| $275 per domain
Shared certificate service* | $100 per domain
Shared wildcard certificate service* | $275 per domain
Features
Full website and streaming media delivery network
Instant purging
Origin shielding
Dynamic site acceleration
Web app and API protection
DDoS attack mitigation
Access Control Lists (ACLs)
TLS encryption
Global edge compute platform
Local debugging
Flexible microservice chaining
Edge data
📄 Editorial Review
Fastly is an edge cloud and CDN provider founded in 2011 by Artur Bergman, headquartered in San Francisco and grown into a mid-sized, publicly traded infrastructure company with around a thousand employees. Rather than offering classic shared or VPS hosting, they focus on delivering and securing web content and applications from the edge, targeting engineering-driven organizations that need performance, programmability, and deep real-time visibility.At the core of the platform is Fastly’s Content Delivery Network (Full Site Delivery). Traffic is routed through a global network of high-density points of presence (POPs) located at major internet exchange points worldwide. The CDN accelerates static and dynamic sites, APIs, and media delivery, with fast cache purging, HTTP/3 support, TLS offload, and fine-grained cache controls. The platform is built around Varnish-style configuration and a highly programmable edge layer, which appeals to teams that want to tune behavior rather than rely on a black-box CDN.
On top of the CDN, Fastly has expanded into a broader edge cloud platform. Key product families include:
- Network Services: Full-site delivery, load balancing, origin shielding, media streaming tools (Media Shield, On-the-Fly Packager), and Image Optimization for on-the-fly resizing and format conversion.
- Security Services: DDoS protection, Next-Gen WAF (Signal Sciences technology), bot mitigation features, TLS management (including managed certificates and mutual TLS), and client-side protection. Security is integrated, not bolted on, which makes the platform attractive for high-traffic sites with serious risk exposure.
- Compute at the edge: Serverless edge computing for deploying code globally without managing servers, plus complementary services such as fan-out / WebSockets for real-time experiences and AI-focused features like the AI Accelerator with semantic caching for LLM-based workloads.
- Observability and data: Logging endpoints, Edge Observer, Domain and Origin Inspector, custom dashboards, and object storage and key-value storage at the edge. This gives teams detailed insight into traffic, errors, and performance, often in real time.
Fastly is not a traditional hosting provider (you do not rent shared cPanel accounts, VPSes, or classic dedicated servers). Instead, it sits in front of existing infrastructure, accelerating and securing applications that may live in public clouds, on-premises data centers, or other hosting environments. This makes the platform particularly suitable for technology-driven companies, SaaS vendors, media and streaming platforms, and e-commerce or API providers that are comfortable with a more technical, configuration-driven service rather than a simple plug-and-play host.
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