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Fastly CDN

byFastly
in Edge Distribution Platforms
4.8
2026

Overview

Product Information on Fastly CDN

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Fastly CDN?

Fastly Deliver is a software designed to optimize the distribution of web content, APIs, and digital assets by utilizing edge cloud technology. This software focuses on accelerating content delivery and improving load times for websites and applications through a globally distributed network. Fastly Deliver offers real-time visibility and control, enabling organizations to cache and deliver data close to end users while maintaining security protocols and reducing latency. The software addresses the business problem of ensuring fast, reliable, and scalable content delivery across various platforms, helping businesses maintain seamless user experiences while managing large volumes of traffic and content updates efficiently.

Fastly CDN Pricing

Fastly Deliver software uses a usage-based pricing model where charges are determined by the amount of data transferred and requests processed. Optional add-ons and support plans are available for additional fees, and customized enterprise agreements can be arranged based on specific requirements.

Overall experience with Fastly CDN

Director Of Technical Operations
<50M USD, Retail
FAVORABLE

“A powerful, engineer-first edge platform with exceptional speed, flexibility, and support.”

5.0
Mar 16, 2026
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Software Developer
10B - 30B USD, Retail
CRITICAL

“Customizable and Useful Despite Clunky UI”

3.0
Apr 13, 2026
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2026
For Market:
Edge Distribution Platforms

Key Insights

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About Company

Company Description

Updated 7th December 2023

Fastly is a company that specializes in developing an edge cloud platform. This platform is designed to enhance the effectiveness and strength of websites and applications. Notable users of this platform include social media, e-commerce, news media and gaming sites. Through their platform, Fastly aims to facilitate improved web and app performance.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2011
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
501 - 1000
Website
http://www.fastly.com

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Fastly CDN Reviews and Ratings

4.8

(372 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
83%
4 Star
16%
3 Star
2%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • Director Of Technical Operations
    <50M USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    A powerful, engineer-first edge platform with exceptional speed, flexibility, and support.

    5.0
    Mar 16, 2026
    My experience with Fastly has been five stars! This starts with their sales, services, and support teams, all of whom are extremely knowledgeable and always willing to train, support and collaborate with their customers. The platform itself is designed to handle everything from simple implementations to highly complex architectures in a fast, secure, and reliable way. This is especially valuable for our reseller and services teams, as we support a wide range of customer needs and use cases.
  • Director Of Technical Operations
    <50M USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    A powerful, engineer-first edge platform with exceptional speed, flexibility, and support.

    5.0
    Mar 16, 2026
    My experience with Fastly has been five stars! This starts with their sales, services, and support teams, all of whom are extremely knowledgeable and always willing to train, support and collaborate with their customers. The platform itself is designed to handle everything from simple implementations to highly complex architectures in a fast, secure, and reliable way. This is especially valuable for our reseller and services teams, as we support a wide range of customer needs and use cases.
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Deciding Factors: Fastly CDN Vs. Market Average
Performance of Fastly CDN Across Market Features

Fastly CDN Likes & Dislikes

Like

Knowledgeable Staff: No matter which team you work with--Support, Services, Customer Success, or Product--everyone demonstrates deep expertise in their field and a genuine curiosity to keep learning and improving Product Flexibility: As an engineer-first platform, Fastly provides the flexibility needed to build unique configurations, develop custom tooling, and leverage APIs for nearly any use case. This allows our team to create tailored solutions for a diverse set of customers. Reliability and Speed: Fastly delivers some of the fastest Time to First Byte (TTFB) in the industry, extremely fast resource purging, and exceptional uptime. We run complex Edge Compute services for our customers and consistently see success rates of 99.999%.

Like

Knowledgeable Staff: No matter which team you work with--Support, Services, Customer Success, or Product--everyone demonstrates deep expertise in their field and a genuine curiosity to keep learning and improving Product Flexibility: As an engineer-first platform, Fastly provides the flexibility needed to build unique configurations, develop custom tooling, and leverage APIs for nearly any use case. This allows our team to create tailored solutions for a diverse set of customers. Reliability and Speed: Fastly delivers some of the fastest Time to First Byte (TTFB) in the industry, extremely fast resource purging, and exceptional uptime. We run complex Edge Compute services for our customers and consistently see success rates of 99.999%.

Like

Knowledgeable Staff: No matter which team you work with--Support, Services, Customer Success, or Product--everyone demonstrates deep expertise in their field and a genuine curiosity to keep learning and improving Product Flexibility: As an engineer-first platform, Fastly provides the flexibility needed to build unique configurations, develop custom tooling, and leverage APIs for nearly any use case. This allows our team to create tailored solutions for a diverse set of customers. Reliability and Speed: Fastly delivers some of the fastest Time to First Byte (TTFB) in the industry, extremely fast resource purging, and exceptional uptime. We run complex Edge Compute services for our customers and consistently see success rates of 99.999%.

Dislike

The web interface is pretty clunky and slow. It's a bit painful to click around into different services and compare things. The documentation could use some love, especially around javascript compute (logger for instance is a black box to us, but it...works).

Dislike

The web interface is pretty clunky and slow. It's a bit painful to click around into different services and compare things. The documentation could use some love, especially around javascript compute (logger for instance is a black box to us, but it...works).

Dislike

The web interface is pretty clunky and slow. It's a bit painful to click around into different services and compare things. The documentation could use some love, especially around javascript compute (logger for instance is a black box to us, but it...works).

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