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Fastly vs KeyCDN

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of Fastly and KeyCDN built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 20 criteria comparedSources last checked

Adoption share

BuiltWith counts — how much more of the web runs Fastly than KeyCDN, among the sites BuiltWith actually detects. Measured . Source: BuiltWith.

Fastly99.8% · 2,058,560 sites
KeyCDN0.2% · 3,211 sites

The short answer

Choose Fastly if…

High-traffic sites where volume-discount tiers actually kick in, or teams that want CDN and edge compute (Fastly Compute) on the same platform.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose KeyCDN if…

Low-commitment testing or small sites — no free tier, but the $4/month floor and no-commitment billing make it cheap to try against real traffic.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Fastly: Traffic is modest — the $1,500/month entry plan for dedicated network services is priced for scale a smaller site won't reach, where a pay-as-you-go CDN has no equivalent floor.
  • KeyCDN: Bandwidth volume is large — $0.04/GB is the highest entry-tier bandwidth rate of the CDNs sourced here for North America/Europe.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Fastly alternatives · KeyCDN alternatives

12 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionFastlyKeyCDN
Pricing
Free tier
Yes
No
Kind of free offerFree tierNo free offer — The first 3 zones are free, but traffic is not: the account floor is a $4 monthly minimum.
What the free plan includesFastly names a free entry point for experimenting and prototyping on usage-based pricing; the allowance figures are no longer stated on this page.The first 3 zones are included at no charge; traffic itself is billed from the first gigabyte with no free allowance.
Entry paid plan
Network Services packages start at $1,500/month, including 100M requests.
No plan tiers: pay-as-you-go with a $4 per month minimum charge on combined account usage, and credits must be topped up with a minimum $49 payment.
Pricing modelUsage-based with built-in volume-discount tiers — the per-GB and per-request rate falls as monthly usage rises.Pay-as-you-go, tiered by volume, with no commitment required.
Egress over allowance
North America and Europe: free to 100 GB, then $0.12/GB to 10 TB and $0.08/GB for the next 10 TB. Priced by region — Africa, India and South Korea are $0.28/GB in the same band.
$0.04/GB for North America and Europe, first 10 TB per month.
Infrastructure
Regions10 billing regions priced separately for Full Site Delivery bandwidth: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, India, Mexico, North America, Saudi Arabia, South America, South Korea.Six regions listed on the network page — North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa (Johannesburg only) and Latin America — covering 50 named cities counted from the region tables. The same page separately claims 60+ data centers, so cities are not points of presence one-for-one. Counted from the six region tables; KeyCDN publishes no per-region total.
CDN
Points of presence
164 POPs, counted from Fastly's own complete list of active POPs in the docs — Fastly publishes the table of POP identifiers rather than a total.
60+ data centers in 40+ countries across 6 continents.
Image optimizationImage Optimizer: first 100,000 image requests a month free, then $0.50 per 10,000 requests, with volume discounts scaling down to $0.01 per 10,000 beyond 5 billion monthly requests.Image Processing: $0.40 per 1,000 operations, transforming and optimizing images in real time via query parameters.
Support
Support on entry paid planStandard support free and automatic for every user. Gold adds SLA-guaranteed response times, priority routing and 24/7 incident response; Enterprise adds around-the-clock emergency support.24/7 technical support for all customers at no additional cost.
Compliance
ISO 27001
Certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for its Information Security Management System (ISMS).
Stated of the data centers that host KeyCDN's points of presence: they meet ISO 27001 security and compliance standards. Network-page claim about the data center providers, not a KeyCDN corporate certification.
GDPR / data residencyAudited against key articles of the GDPR, mapped to data protection and privacy controls for Fastly as a data processor. Audit scope as processor; the page states no region-pinned storage guarantee.Committed to GDPR as the data processor (customer is controller); a DPA is issued on support request; client IP addresses are anonymized in delivery logs.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Free tier

Fastly
Yes
KeyCDN
No
Sources (2) →

Kind of free offer

Fastly
Free tier
KeyCDN
No free offer — The first 3 zones are free, but traffic is not: the account floor is a $4 monthly minimum.
Sources (2) →
  • Fastly Pricing ↗

    “Requests 1 Million free Billed per 10,000 Requests per Region per month Requests (per month) Monthly Price (per 10,000 Requests) 0 - 1 Million Free”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • KeyCDN Pricing ↗

    “The first 3 Zones are included for free. Each additional Zone is $1 per month. [...] Our minimum charge is $4 per month based on the combined total account traffic volume and other services used.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

What the free plan includes

Fastly
Fastly names a free entry point for experimenting and prototyping on usage-based pricing; the allowance figures are no longer stated on this page.
KeyCDN
The first 3 zones are included at no charge; traffic itself is billed from the first gigabyte with no free allowance.
Sources (2) →

Entry paid plan

Fastly
Network Services packages start at $1,500/month, including 100M requests.
KeyCDN
No plan tiers: pay-as-you-go with a $4 per month minimum charge on combined account usage, and credits must be topped up with a minimum $49 payment.
Sources (2) →
  • Fastly Pricing ↗

    “Price per Month $1,500 $6,000 Contact sales Contact sales Requests per Month 100M Requests 500M Requests 2B Requests 5B Requests”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • CDN Pricing - KeyCDN ↗

    “Our minimum charge is $4 per month based on the combined total account traffic volume and other services used. [...] Is there a minimum payment? Yes, the minimum payment is $49.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

Pricing model

Fastly
Usage-based with built-in volume-discount tiers — the per-GB and per-request rate falls as monthly usage rises.
KeyCDN
Pay-as-you-go, tiered by volume, with no commitment required.
Sources (2) →
  • Fastly Pricing ↗

    “only pay for what you use, with built in discounts as usage grows. [...] Usage-based, volume discounts Spend less as you use more with our built-in pricing tiers”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • KeyCDN Pricing ↗

    “Get access to our entire content delivery network without commitment.”

    Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing · Report a correction

Egress over allowance

Fastly
North America and Europe: free to 100 GB, then $0.12/GB to 10 TB and $0.08/GB for the next 10 TB. Priced by region — Africa, India and South Korea are $0.28/GB in the same band.
KeyCDN
$0.04/GB for North America and Europe, first 10 TB per month.
Sources (2) →
  • Fastly Pricing ↗

    “Bandwidth (per month) Africa Asia Australia Europe India Mexico North America Saudi Arabia South America South Korea 0 - 100 GB Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free 100 GB - 10 TB $0.28 $0.19 $0.19 $0.12 $0.28 $0.16 $0.12 $0.19 $0.19 $0.28 Next 10 TB $0.24 $0.14 $0.14 $0.08 $0.24 $0.12 $0.08 $0.14 $0.14 $0.24”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • KeyCDN Pricing ↗

    “Region First 10 TB per month Next 40 TB per month Next 50 TB per month Over 100 TB per month North America Europe $0.04/GB $0.03/GB $0.02/GB $0.01/GB”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

Regions

Fastly
10 billing regions priced separately for Full Site Delivery bandwidth: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, India, Mexico, North America, Saudi Arabia, South America, South Korea.
KeyCDN
Six regions listed on the network page — North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa (Johannesburg only) and Latin America — covering 50 named cities counted from the region tables. The same page separately claims 60+ data centers, so cities are not points of presence one-for-one. Counted from the six region tables; KeyCDN publishes no per-region total.
Sources (2) →
  • Explore Fastly Pricing Tiers and Package Options | Fastly ↗

    “Billed per GB per Region per month [...] Africa Asia Australia Europe India Mexico North America Saudi Arabia South America South Korea”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Network - KeyCDN ↗

    “North America Atlanta Chicago Dallas Denver Los Angeles Miami Montreal New York San Francisco Seattle Europe Amsterdam [...] Oceania Auckland Brisbane Melbourne Perth Sydney Africa Johannesburg Latin America Bogotá Buenos Aires Lima Mexico City Santiago São Paulo”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

Points of presence

Fastly

164 POPs, counted from Fastly's own complete list of active POPs in the docs — Fastly publishes the table of POP identifiers rather than a total.

KeyCDN

60+ data centers in 40+ countries across 6 continents.

Sources (2) →

Image optimization

Fastly
Image Optimizer: first 100,000 image requests a month free, then $0.50 per 10,000 requests, with volume discounts scaling down to $0.01 per 10,000 beyond 5 billion monthly requests.
KeyCDN
Image Processing: $0.40 per 1,000 operations, transforming and optimizing images in real time via query parameters.
Sources (2) →
  • Fastly Pricing ↗

    “Image Optimizer Turn image-heavy into conversion-ready Sign up for free Image Requests 100,000 free Billed per 10,000 Image Requests Image Requests (per month) Monthly Price (per 10,000 Image Requests) 0 - 100,000 Free 100,000 - 10 Million $0.50 10 Million - 50 Million $0.15 50 Million - 150 Million $0.07 150 Million - 500 Million $0.03 500 Million - 1 Billion $0.02 1 Billion - 5 Billion $0.015 Beyond 5 Billion $0.01”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • KeyCDN Pricing ↗

    “Image Processing costs $0.40 per 1,000 operations. Transform and optimize images in real time with simple query parameters.”

    Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing · Report a correction

Support on entry paid plan

Fastly
Standard support free and automatic for every user. Gold adds SLA-guaranteed response times, priority routing and 24/7 incident response; Enterprise adds around-the-clock emergency support.
KeyCDN
24/7 technical support for all customers at no additional cost.
Sources (2) →
  • Fastly Support Plans ↗

    “all fastly users receive standard level support with the option to upgrade to gold or enterprise level as your edge cloud experience grows. [...] gold enhanced support with faster, sla-guaranteed response times and priority routing.”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction

  • KeyCDN Pricing ↗

    “24/7 support our professional technical support team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for all customers at no additional cost.”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

ISO 27001

Fastly
Certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for its Information Security Management System (ISMS).
KeyCDN
Stated of the data centers that host KeyCDN's points of presence: they meet ISO 27001 security and compliance standards. Network-page claim about the data center providers, not a KeyCDN corporate certification.
Sources (2) →

GDPR / data residency

Fastly
Audited against key articles of the GDPR, mapped to data protection and privacy controls for Fastly as a data processor. Audit scope as processor; the page states no region-pinned storage guarantee.
KeyCDN
Committed to GDPR as the data processor (customer is controller); a DPA is issued on support request; client IP addresses are anonymized in delivery logs.
Sources (2) →
  • Compliance | Fastly ↗

    “Fastly is audited against key articles of the General Data Protection Regulation, mapped to data protection and privacy controls for Fastly as a data processor.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

  • GDPR - KeyCDN ↗

    “KeyCDN customers typically act as data controllers, whereas KeyCDN acts as the data processor. [...] you are required by law to complete a data processing agreement (DPA). Please open a support request to receive the agreement. [...] Client IP addresses are anonymized within the content delivery logs provided.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

SOC 2Fastly: SOC 2 Type 2 audited against the AICPA Trust Service Criteria for Security and Availability; reports on request (NDA for prospective customers).
HIPAAFastly: Audited against relevant sections of the HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules; customers configure a HIPAA-compliant caching product to support compliance.
PCI DSSFastly: PCI DSS compliant as a Level 1 Service Provider; a PCI-compliant caching product covers Network services, Compute and Observability.
Encryption at restFastly: Customer-provided private keys are encrypted at rest; disk encryption and secure boot are maintained as additional controls where deemed appropriate.
Customer-managed keysFastly: Supported logging endpoints take a PGP public key you supply; Fastly encrypts log files with it before writing to disk and you hold the private key. Scope: streamed log files only; separate from Fastly TLS bring-your-own-certificate keys.
Role-based access controlFastly: User roles and permissions control account access; account-management roles (Superuser, User Admin, Billing) plus service-configuration roles are assigned per user.
Private networking / VPCFastly: Origin Connect provides a dedicated private network interconnection between a customer origin server and a Fastly Shield POP.
Dedicated infrastructureFastly: Dedicated anycast IPv4/IPv6 address pools assigned exclusively to a single customer, maintained and managed by Fastly across its global edge cloud platform. Scope is dedicated IP addressing on Fastly's edge platform.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: Fastly or KeyCDN?

Fastly: Network Services packages start at $1,500/month, including 100M requests.

KeyCDN: No plan tiers: pay-as-you-go with a $4 per month minimum charge on combined account usage, and credits must be topped up with a minimum $49 payment.

Free tier: Fastly or KeyCDN?

Fastly: Yes

KeyCDN: No

Egress over allowance: Fastly or KeyCDN?

Fastly: North America and Europe: free to 100 GB, then $0.12/GB to 10 TB and $0.08/GB for the next 10 TB. Priced by region — Africa, India and South Korea are $0.28/GB in the same band.

KeyCDN: $0.04/GB for North America and Europe, first 10 TB per month.

Should I choose Fastly or KeyCDN?

Pick Fastly if High-traffic sites where volume-discount tiers actually kick in, or teams that want CDN and edge compute (Fastly Compute) on the same platform.

Pick KeyCDN if Low-commitment testing or small sites — no free tier, but the $4/month floor and no-commitment billing make it cheap to try against real traffic.

Provider pages

FastlyEnterprise CDN and edge compute platform with volume-tiered bandwidth pricing and a metered image optimizer.KeyCDNPay-as-you-go CDN with no long-term commitment and a metered per-operation image processing add-on.

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Comments

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