Limits, pricing history. Verified November 2026. Last updated 2026-11-09.
Fastly's free tier offers Edge cloud platform with usage-based pricing; many of its products include a monthly free allowance… We rate it stable. All 2 records we hold were our own errors and have been withdrawn.
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Free Tier Details
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.
We read that on 2026-11-09 from https://www.fastly.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Fastly as "fastly" and states "$0.12" and "$0.01".
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-27). Retracted 2026-09-27: nothing changed on 2026-09-25. Fastly's pricing page, read 2026-09-27, still gives Full Site Delivery 1 million requests and 100 GB of bandwidth free a month, as do the Internet Archive's captures of 2026-07-31, 2026-09-01 and 2026-09-11. The 100,000 free requests this record reports belong to AI Runtime Control, a separate product listed above Full Site Delivery on the same page. Source ↗
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-27). Retracted 2026-09-27: nothing changed on 2026-09-09. The Internet Archive's captures of Fastly's pricing page on 2026-07-31 and 2026-09-01 state the same free allowances this record reports, 100 GB of bandwidth and 1 million requests a month for Full Site Delivery and 5 GB of Object Storage, which our listing already held. The record compared the page with our own listing text. Source ↗
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Yes, Fastly offers a free tier: 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, ban...
What is Fastly's free tier?
Fastly's free tier is called "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.
Is Fastly's free tier reliable?
Fastly's free tier is considered stable. All 2 records we hold were our own errors and have been withdrawn. See the pricing history below.
Is Fastly's free tier good for production?
Fastly's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers Edge cloud platform with usage-based pricing; many of its products include a monthly free allowance…, so it's a reasonable starting point. All 2 records we hold were our own errors and have been withdrawn. Monitor your usage against the limits and have an upgrade plan ready.
What changed in Fastly's pricing?
All 2 records we hold were our own errors and have been withdrawn.
When will I outgrow Fastly's free tier?
At 500,000 requests, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.