Every free cdn tier that clears our bar in 2026: 17 offers meet the criteria and 2 offers are demoted with a named reason. Verified pricing, recorded changes, and a published ranking method.

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Every free cdn tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-11.

17 offers meet our criteria for this category and none is distinguishable from the others under any signal we record. They are listed in an order that rotates daily; here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 554 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 19 cdn offers →
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Free

Free ESM-first CDN for npm packages. Serves ES modules with automatic dependency resolution, TypeScript support, and tree-shaking. Runs on Cloudflare

2
Free

An image cache & resize service. Manipulate images on the fly with a worldwide cache.

3
Free

The Google Hosted Libraries is a content distribution network for the most popular Open Source JavaScript libraries Best for open source projects.

4
Free

A modern replacement of **rawgit.com** which simply hosts file using Cloudflare

5
Free

The Microsoft Ajax CDN hosts popular third-party JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and enables you to easily add them to your Web application

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PromoProxy stable
Free

Free cloud Secure Web Gateway. Free plan includes up to 5 users and 1 GB per day.

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-01 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: The free tier now includes 3 GB of data per day, down from 1 GB. Source ↗
7
cdnjs.com stable
Free

Simple. Fast. Reliable. Content delivery at its finest. cdnjs is a free and open-source CDN service trusted by over 11% of all websites, powered by Cloudflare.

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Free

Up to 5 TB per month of Free CDN traffic, 19 Core PoPs , 1 Domain and Universal SSL.

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Free

Proxy for Packagist and GitHub. Never fail CD. Free for personal use, one developer, no support Best for personal projects.

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Free

Free CDN for all npm packages. Any file on npm available via URL. Runs on Cloudflare Workers. No signup required

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Free

ESM-native JavaScript CDN serving optimized npm packages directly to the browser with no install or build step (minification, polyfills, compression, caching handled automatically). Free to use for personal and commercial purposes with no stated request limits; custom domains and advanced needs via contact. Best for personal projects.

12
Free

CDN for bootstrap, bootswatch and fontawesome.io

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Free

Free DDoS protection and SSL certificate via SSL Gateway. Includes Always-on DDoS protection, free Let's Encrypt SSL, and HTTP/2 support Note — 2026-04-01: OVHcloud VPS prices increased dramatically April 1, 2026. VPS Starter (VPS-1) from $4.90 to $7.60/mo (+55%), VPS Essential (VPS-2) similarly increased, VPS Comfort (VPS-4) from $26.00 to $43.50/mo (+67%). Root cause: AI-driven DRAM prices up 250-300% and NVMe SSD costs surging. Affects all new and existing VPS customers. Source ↗

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-04-01pricing restructured: OVHcloud VPS prices increased dramatically April 1, 2026. VPS Starter (VPS-1) from $4.90 to $7.60/mo (+55%), VPS Essential (VPS-2) similarly increased, VPS Comfort (VPS-4) from $26.00 to $43.50/mo (+67%). Root cause: AI-driven DRAM prices up 250-300% and NVMe SSD costs surging. Affects all new and existing VPS customers. Source ↗
  • effective 2026-04-01pricing restructured: OVHcloud Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and Bare Metal prices increased 9-11% for deployments made 2026-2028. Pre-2025 deployments see smaller 2-6% increase depending on equipment age. IPv4 pricing also increased. Driven by same DRAM/NVMe cost surge as VPS increases. Source ↗
14
Free

Free CDN for open source projects — serves files from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket repos and npm packages. ~20-30 MB file size limit Best for open source projects.

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jsDelivr stable
Free

Free CDN for open-source — unlimited bandwidth and requests, serves npm packages and GitHub repos, multi-provider redundancy Best for unlimited usage needs.

16
Stellate stable
Free

GraphQL edge CDN. Free plan: up to 100,000 requests/month, unlimited services, unlimited seats, 1-day data retention, fair-use policy. Business plan starts at $249/mo (25M metrics requests, 30-day retention, optional Edge Caching and Rate Limiting add-ons). Best for unlimited usage needs.

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Free Developer

Superseded: As of 2026-09-09, fastly.com/pricing reads: Bandwidth: 0 - 100 GB Free. Requests: 0 - 1 Million Free. Object Storage: 5 GB free. DDoS Protection: 500,000 requests free. Websockets: 100 Million minutes free. We are not publishing our stored Fastly terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-09, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-09-09: The free tier now offers 100 GB of bandwidth, 1 Million requests, and 5 GB of object storage. The page details pricing beyond the free tier, indicating the free tier is a starting point and not necessarily a permanently free offering. Several other features like Compute, Websockets, and DDoS protection also have free tiers with specific limits. Source ↗

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknownpricing restructured: The free tier now offers 100 GB of bandwidth, 1 Million requests, and 5 GB of object storage. The page details pricing beyond the free tier, indicating the free tier is a starting point and not necessarily a permanently free offering. Several other features like Compute, Websockets, and DDoS protection also have free tiers with specific limits. Source ↗

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

−1
Free

Free CDN with basic DDoS protection for Namecheap-hosted domains

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 4 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-07 — HTTP 403), last confirmed 2026-05-20. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−5
Trial

Image CDN and optimization — no permanent free tier. 30-day free trial with 100 credits, no credit card required. Paid plans start at Starter $25/mo (100 credits, 50 GB storage, 100 GB bandwidth); credit system charges 2 credits/GB/month for storage and 1 credit/GB for delivery.

  • −3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-04-13: No permanent free tier, 30-day trial with 100 credits only We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Imgix's rating.
  • −2 time_limited_offer Tier "Trial" is a trial that expires, not an ongoing free tier.
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-11
query_key
best-of:CDN
seed
cff6bf5a60f96e35ce110bdeaf3a1564546e59ab12dc2f50b9cda90e3af370fa
tie_count
17

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Stability Verified
esm.sh Free Free ESM-first CDN for npm packages. Serves ES modules with automatic dependency resolution, TypeScript support, and tre... 2026-07-29
weserv Free An image cache & resize service. Manipulate images on the fly with a worldwide cache. 2026-08-31
developers.google.com Free The Google Hosted Libraries is a content distribution network for the most popular Open Source JavaScript libraries 2026-08-07
raw.githack.com Free A modern replacement of **rawgit.com** which simply hosts file using Cloudflare 2026-08-07
Microsoft Ajax Free The Microsoft Ajax CDN hosts popular third-party JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and enables you to easily add them ... 2026-08-08
PromoProxy Free Free cloud Secure Web Gateway. Free plan includes up to 5 users and 1 GB per day. stable 2026-08-10
cdnjs.com Free Simple. Fast. Reliable. Content delivery at its finest. cdnjs is a free and open-source CDN service trusted by over 11% ... stable 2026-09-01
CacheFly Free Up to 5 TB per month of Free CDN traffic, 19 Core PoPs , 1 Domain and Universal SSL. 2026-08-09
toranproxy.com Free Proxy for Packagist and GitHub. Never fail CD. Free for personal use, one developer, no support 2026-08-08
UNPKG Free Free CDN for all npm packages. Any file on npm available via URL. Runs on Cloudflare Workers. No signup required 2026-07-30
Skypack Free ESM-native JavaScript CDN serving optimized npm packages directly to the browser with no install or build step (minifica... 2026-08-28
bootstrapcdn.com Free CDN for bootstrap, bootswatch and fontawesome.io 2026-08-07
OVHcloud Free Free DDoS protection and SSL certificate via SSL Gateway. Includes Always-on DDoS protection, free Let's Encrypt SSL, an... caution
2026-04-01 restructured
2026-08-18
Statically Free Free CDN for open source projects — serves files from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket repos and npm packages. ~20-30 MB file s... 2026-08-24
jsDelivr Free Free CDN for open-source — unlimited bandwidth and requests, serves npm packages and GitHub repos, multi-provider redund... stable 2026-09-02
Stellate Free GraphQL edge CDN. Free plan: up to 100,000 requests/month, unlimited services, unlimited seats, 1-day data retention, fa... stable 2026-09-07
Fastly Free Developer As of 2026-09-09, fastly.com/pricing reads: Bandwidth: 0 - 100 GB Free. Requests: 0 - 1 Million Free. Object Storage: 5 GB free… Our stored Fastly terms are superseded and withheld. caution
discovered 2026-09-09 restructured
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