Fastly
fastly.com · 4 records in Compute, Egress and tunnels, Storage · JSON
Records 4
- caveatFastly Compute
Computefree tieridentity cardphonelimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- caveatFastly Fast Forward (OSS CDN)
Storagefree tieridentity institution?card?limit write-gatedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotaFastly
Egress and tunnelsfree tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- fails: quotaFastly free account + Fast Forward OSS programme
Storagefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
Fastly Compute
Compute- Free allowance
- "10 Million Compute requests free" a month and "100 Million Compute vCPU milliseconds free" a month, with overage at USD 0.50 per million requests and USD 0.05 per million vCPU milliseconds.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, phone required
- Binding limit
- request-rateThe free tier is metered in vCPU milliseconds, so 100 million vCPU-ms a month is about 27.8 vCPU-hours, and a Compute program cannot stay resident at all because the model is one request at a time.
- Evidence
- documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | "10 Million Compute requests free" a month and "100 Million Compute vCPU milliseconds free" a month, with overage at USD 0.50 per million requests and USD 0.05 per million vCPU milliseconds. unit none; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-allowance |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
|
| Identity | card a card is required: the vendor's own announcement states the free developer accounts "require a valid credit card to help prevent abuse on the platform". The record does not state whether the card is charged or authorised for any amount, whether a hold is placed and for how long, whether a debit or prepaid card is accepted, or whether an email or phone is also required at signup |
| Egress | The pricing page lists CDN bandwidth per region with the first 100 GB per month free and a per-GB price above it; whether bytes served by Compute meter under that table is unverified: the table is headed 'Bandwidth (per month)' and is not labelled for Compute |
| Interface | rest REST API at api.fastly.com and the fastly CLI, documented at fastly.com/documentation/reference |
| Tooling | the fastly CLI, which builds and deploys Compute packages through the Fastly API |
| Composes with | 10 million requests a month at the edge with no idle cost, useful as a front for an IPv6-only origin or as a webhook receiver that triggers a paid-for-nothing job elsewhere. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The card requirement converts this from an anonymous free tier into a payment relationship, which is why identity_cost is card. Compute is WebAssembly, so a process that needs a shell, a kernel or a long-lived socket does not fit. 27.8 vCPU-hours a month is the number to compare against Deno's 10 and Cloudflare's CPU-time model. |
| Parsed numbers |
|
Evidence 7
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | www.fastly.com/pricing | Compute section: 0 to 10 million Compute requests free, 0 to 100 million Compute vCPU milliseconds free, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.fastly.com/documentation/guides/account-info/billing/acc | "We provide a monthly free tier of services for many Network Services and Compute products", charged only above the limits, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.fastly.com/blog/its-free-instant-and-yours-fastlys-free- | vendor update on the same page: the free tier is more generous now but "require a valid credit card to help prevent abuse on the platform" |
| 2026-11-03 | www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/api/ | a REST API covers the platform |
| 2026-11-03 | www.fastly.com/pricing | the pricing page lists 100 GB per month of free CDN bandwidth in every region |
| 2026-11-04 | www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/api/ | part of the text of Interface, above |
| 2026-11-04 | www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/cli/ | fastly is the CLI |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "perpetual-allowance","free_tier_kind": "perpetual-allowance","shape": null} |
|---|
Unknown values 3
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- Free allowance
- No byte quota - free CDN/edge services for eligible OSS projects and the nonprofits that support them.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- write-gatedreview; application
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | No byte quota - free CDN/edge services for eligible OSS projects and the nonprofits that support them. Scope set per applicant after review. unit mixed; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits | Google Form application; acceptance discretionary and reviewed by a human. Must be open-licensed, community-centred, 'built on trust'. No published SLA. Not a storage product at all. |
| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | This is the egress: Fastly absorbs bandwidth for accepted projects. Origin still has to exist and be paid for elsewhere. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest rest |
| Tooling | Fastly CDN/VCL, custom VCL or Compute@Edge; standard HTTP origin pull. |
| Composes with | Use as the free front door over any of the qualifying origins (Hugging Face, Internet Archive, a university bucket). Turns a metered origin into an unmetered public read path. |
| Reliability | Established programme (relaunched 2022) with real OSS members (PyPI historically). Risk is acceptance, not durability. Adds a third-party dependency in the read path. |
| Parsed numbers |
|
Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.fastly.com/fast-forward | 'we extend free services to eligible open source projects and nonprofits that support them'; application is an embedded Google Form |
| 2026-10-21 | www.fastly.com/press/press-releases/fastly-launches-fast-for | 'Fast Forward will offer free services to open source projects and the nonprofits that support them' |
Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
Fastly
Egress and tunnels- Free allowance
- 100 GB bandwidth and 100,000 requests per month
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotatotal stored or transferred volume
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | 100 GB bandwidth and 100,000 requests per month unit GB; metered on downloaded-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
the allowance is a byte volume over a period, which none of the six kinds names; the number is in egress.free_allowance and binding names per-ip-shaping as the nearest kind |
| Binding | volume-quota the monthly byte allowance in egress.free_allowance is what runs out, and no kind in the six-value vocabulary names a byte volume over a period counted per account. per-ip-shaping is the closest, because it is the only kind that bounds a volume, and its subject here is the account rather than the caller's address |
| Identity | email a Fastly account |
| Egress | 100 GB/month per region, then USD 0.12 to 0.28/GB by region free allowance: 100 GB/month per region |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: billed by volume |
| Interface | rest a Fastly service domain |
| Tooling | fastly CLI |
| Composes with | composes with an origin and a domain, and the 100 GB is spent per region so a multi-region service spends it several ways. |
| Reliability | the free band is metered per region |
| Notes | 100 GB a month is about 3.3 GB a day. |
| Parsed numbers |
|
Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | www.fastly.com/pricing | '100 GB free' and '100,000 free' requests, with the per-region band table |
More fields 3
| stale after days | 180 |
|---|---|
| bytes transit | yes |
| transit note | the CDN serves the origin's bytes from its edge |
- Free allowance
- Free account: 100 GB bandwidth/month free across all regions, 1M CDN requests/month, 5 domains, 100K purge requests.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedreview of a Google Form application
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Free account: 100 GB bandwidth/month free across all regions, 1M CDN requests/month, 5 domains, 100K purge requests. Above 100 GB: $0.12/GB EU/NA, $0.19/GB Asia/Australia, $0.28/GB Africa/India/South Korea. Fast Forward (OSS/nonprofit programme) has no published byte quota — 'we extend free services to eligible open source projects and nonprofits that support them', scope agreed after human review of a Google Form application. unit GB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | Free tier 100 GB/mo; $120/TB EU/NA, $190/TB Asia, $280/TB Africa/India/KR. Not competitive as paid egress. |
| Limits |
per-object-cap: none. The binding limit is the 100 GB/month counter (and 1M requests). Fast Forward: discretionary human acceptance, no published SLA, and the previous '$50/month of free traffic' credit model was retired for new accounts created after 2025-10-28. |
| Identity | email email |
| Egress | 100 GB/mo free, then metered per region. Fast Forward absorbs bandwidth for accepted projects but is the only path to meaningful volume. free allowance: 100 GB per month |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest rest |
| Tooling | VCL / Compute@Edge; standard HTTP origin pull. Free accounts are self-serve at fastly.com/signup. |
| Reliability | Bandwidth is metered per region with no pooling, so a geographically mixed audience burns the 100 GB fastest. Fast Forward is real (PyPI, Rust Foundation, PSF, Kubernetes, Mastodon, 100+ projects) and worth applying to if any of a user's datasets ship as a public OSS artefact. |
| Parsed numbers |
|
Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.fastly.com/pricing | 'Bandwidth | 100 GB free | Billed per GB per Region per month'; per-region table 0-100 GB Free, 100 GB-10 TB $0.28 Africa / $0.19 Asia / $0.12 Europe / $0.12 North America |
| 2026-10-21 | www.fastly.com/fast-forward | 'we extend free services to eligible open source projects and nonprofits that support them'; application is an embedded Google Form; criteria 'Open … Community-centered … Built on trust' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.fastly.com/documentation/guides/account-info/billing/acc | 'monthly free tier of services for many Network Services and Compute products, subject to certain limitations'; OSS programme contact [address removed] |
More fields 2
| dead end | {"failure_class": "write-gated","why": "Free account: 100 GB bandwidth/month free across all regions, 1M CDN requests/month, 5 domains, 100K purge requests. Above 100 GB: $0.12/GB EU/NA, $0.19/GB Asia/Australia, $0.28/GB Africa/India/South Korea. Fast Forward (OSS/nonprofit programme) has no published byte quota — 'we extend free services to eligible open source projects and nonprofits that support them', scope agreed after human review of a Google Form application.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
|---|---|
| price verbatim | Free tier 100 GB/mo; $120/TB EU/NA, $190/TB Asia, $280/TB Africa/India/KR. Not competitive as paid egress. |
Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read