Every free cdn tier that clears our bar in 2026: 5 offers meet the criteria and 14 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 14 of them: on 11 the page we cite did not answer, and on 3 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Best Free CDN Tools

Every free cdn tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-30.

5 offers meet our criteria for this category. All of them carry no recorded change to the terms we publish. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. 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 476 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 →
1
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.

2
Fastly stable
Free Developer

Edge cloud platform with usage-based pricing; many of its products include a monthly free allowance. Full Site Delivery (CDN): 100 GB of bandwidth and 1 million requests free a month; beyond that, bandwidth costs $0.12 per GB in Europe and North America (100 GB to 10 TB) and requests $0.01 per 10,000. Compute: 10 million requests and 100 million vCPU milliseconds free. Object Storage: 5 GB free. KV Store: 1 GB free. Websockets and Fanout: 100 million minutes free each. Image Optimizer: 100,000 image requests. DDoS Protection: 500,000 requests. Managed TLS with a non-profit CA or your own certificates: 5 domains. Secret Store: 10 secrets. Accounts opened before 4 November 2025 have separate legacy pricing.

3
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.

4
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.

5
PromoProxy stable
Free

The Free plan is ¥0 /month, includes up to 5 users, and 3 GB of data per day.

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-01 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: The free tier now includes 3 GB of data per day, down from 1 GB. 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

The Microsoft Ajax CDN hosts popular third-party JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and enables you to easily add them to your Web application. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Free CDN with basic DDoS protection for Namecheap-hosted domains. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-14, we found no earlier figure of ours for the page to have narrowed, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-14, found no earlier figure of ours for the page to have narrowed. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Free CDN for all npm packages. Any file on npm available via URL. Runs on Cloudflare Workers. No signup required. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
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. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

A modern replacement of **rawgit.com** which simply hosts file using Cloudflare. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Free ESM-first CDN for npm packages. Serves ES modules with automatic dependency resolution, TypeScript support, and tree-shaking. Runs on Cloudflare. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Up to 5 TB per month of Free CDN traffic, 19 Core PoPs , 1 Domain and Universal SSL. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 2 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-10 — page content too short (likely JS-rendered SPA); a rendering client read 373 characters), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

An image cache & resize service. Manipulate images on the fly with a worldwide cache. The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-09-05, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-09-05 — the page never names weserv, on a domain that carries its name), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

CDN for bootstrap, bootswatch and fontawesome.io. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
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. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Proxy for Packagist and GitHub. Never fail CD. Free for personal use, one developer, no support Best for personal projects. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
OVHcloud stable
Free

Free DDoS protection and SSL certificate via SSL Gateway. Includes Always-on DDoS protection, free Let's Encrypt SSL, and HTTP/2 support

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 2 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-14 — The provided text does not contain specific information about a free CDN tier with DDoS protection and a free SSL certificate. It broadly mentions security features like DDoS protection and SSL certificates, but doesn't detail a free tier or its associated features. It's impossible to verify the stored deal information based on this text.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-04-01 — pricing restructured: OVHcloud raised prices on its VPS 2026 range from 2026-04-01. Its announcement of 2026-03-05 lists euro list prices up 36-49%, with VPS-1 from €4.49 to €6.49 a month and VPS-4 from €24.99 to €36.99; existing services moved at the end of their current term. New orders had moved already: the US page's 12-month price for VPS-1 went from $4.20 to $6.46 between captures of 2026-02-23 and 2026-03-04. Source ↗
  • effective 2026-04-01 — pricing 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 ↗
−1
Free

The Google Hosted Libraries is a content distribution network for the most popular Open Source JavaScript libraries Best for open source projects. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−2
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. Note — 2025-07-01: Imgix replaced its self-service Free plan ($0, up to 1,000 origin images) with a 30-day trial of 100 credits when it moved to credit-based pricing on 2025-07-01. Source ↗

  • −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
2026-09-30
query_key
best-of:CDN
seed
24191419d339945962c0db18f8546a464744294d12282ed3d68c30780ec11f1e
tie_count
5

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
Stellate Free GraphQL edge CDN. Free plan: up to 100,000 requests/month, unlimited services, unlimited seats, 1-day data retention, fa... stable 2026-09-25
Fastly Free Developer Edge cloud platform with usage-based pricing; many of its products include a monthly free allowance. Full Site Delivery ...
read found the page different · 2026-09-25
stable 2026-09-25 / 2026-08-20
jsDelivr Free Free CDN for open-source — unlimited bandwidth and requests, serves npm packages and GitHub repos, multi-provider redund... stable 2026-09-19
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 2026-09-13
PromoProxy Free The Free plan is ¥0 /month, includes up to 5 users, and 3 GB of data per day.
read found the page different · 2026-09-13
stable 2026-09-13 / 2026-08-10

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free cdn tool in 2026?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 5 free cdn offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free cdn tiers have held their terms?

5 offers meet our criteria for this category. All of them carry no recorded change to the terms we publish. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

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