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fastly.com · Compute, Egress and tunnels, Storage · 4 records · JSON

Fastly Compute ComputecaveatcardcardphoneDrequest-rate
Fastly Fast Forward (OSS CDN) Storagecaveatinstitutionno cardRwrite-gated
Fastly Egress and tunnelsfails: quotaemailno cardDvolume-quota
Fastly free account + Fast Forward OSS programme Storagefails: quotaemailno cardRwrite-gated

Fastly Compute Compute

caveatcardcardphoneDrequest-rate

www.fastly.com/pricing · cloud VM · compute/fastly-compute · JSON · compare

Free tier	Quoted: "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
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
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
Limits	request-rate The 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. source The 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.
Binding	request-rate The 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.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
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.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (3)

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"

More fields (1)

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 "wave2": {
  "class": "perpetual-allowance",
  "free_tier_kind": "perpetual-allowance",
  "shape": null
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated

Fastly Fast Forward (OSS CDN) Storage

caveatinstitutionno cardRwrite-gated

www.fastly.com/fast-forward · paas · storage/fastly-fast-forward · JSON · compare

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
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	This is the egress: Fastly absorbs bandwidth for accepted projects. Origin still has to exist and be paid for elsewhere.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: lished programme (relaunched 2022) with real OSS members (PyPI historically). Risk is acceptance, not durability. Adds a third-party dependency in the read path. Use as the free fron
Limits	write-gated review source write-gated application source 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.
Binding	write-gated the write is a queue with a person or a rule in it, so the upload rate is set by somebody else
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.
Notes	No byte quota - free CDN/edge services for eligible OSS projects and the nonprofits that support them. Scope set per applicant after review.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

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 or withheld values (5)

$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted

Fastly Egress and tunnels

fails: quotaemailno cardDvolume-quota

www.fastly.com/pricing · CDN · egress/fastly-free · JSON · compare

Free tier	100 GB bandwidth and 100,000 requests per month unit GB; metered on downloaded-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable: billed by volume
Retention	not applicable
Egress	100 GB/month per region, then USD 0.12 to 0.28/GB by region free_allowance: 100 GB/month per region
Identity	email a Fastly account
Limits	request-rate 100,000 requests/month on the free band source 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
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	3.3 GB/day against a 500 GB/day floor.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:request-rate 100000.0 requests / month

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"
}

Fastly free account + Fast Forward OSS programme Storage

fails: quotaemailno cardRwrite-gated

www.fastly.com/fast-forward · cdn · storage/fastly-free-account-fast-forward-oss-programme · JSON · compare

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.
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
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
Identity	email email
Limits	write-gated review of a Google Form application source 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.
Binding	write-gated the write is a queue with a person or a rule in it, so the upload rate is set by somebody else
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	VCL / Compute@Edge; standard HTTP origin pull. Free accounts are self-serve at fastly.com/signup.
Composes with	100 GB/month = 3.3 GB/day: an order of magnitude too small to matter for serving, so the free tier is a test bench, not a lane. Fast Forward is the only Fastly path to real capacity and it is gated on being a recognised open-source project with an OSI licence and public documentation — i.e. it is a legitimate way to get a big free CDN for an OSS artefact but not for a private 20 TiB archive.
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 the client's datasets ship as a public OSS artefact.
Notes	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, $0.28/GB Africa/India/South Korea. Fast Forward (OSS/nonprofit programme) has no published byte quota — 'we extend free services to eligible open source projects and nonprofits that support them', scope agreed after human review of a Google Form application.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.price_per_tb_month` price-per-tb USD280.0 TB / month

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 (read via read broker)
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 or withheld values (6)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted