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Awesome CDN

📝 Outline

A personal shortlist of CDNs for individual developers and startups, with practical notes on pricing and tradeoffs.

Pull requests are welcome.

📖 Table of Contents

📦 CDN List

Rules

  • CDN must have POPs in at least two countries to qualify for this list.

Cloudflare

  • Description
    • They provide a cdn, dns with a free plan.
    • Most recommended cdn for free plan.
    • In free plan, APAC route is conditionally provided.
  • Network edge capacity
  • Have a free plan?
    • Yes
  • Pricing
    • Free plan: Free
    • Pro plan: $25/month
    • Business plan: $250/month
    • Enterprise plan: $5000+/month
  • Additional bandwidth price
    • unmetered for all plan
    • But it's inconsistent and subjective, if you use too much bandwidth, they will ask you to upgrade your plan.
    • For video, use paid Cloudflare Stream or Enterprise Stream Delivery.
    • Picture and static file is allowed for all plan. BUT, if you use too much bandwidth, they can suspend your account. you can find this in their terms of service.
    • And they throttled customers web traffic without notice
    • However if you use bandwidth normally, you don't have to worry about it.
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes, through paid Cloudflare Stream or Enterprise Stream Delivery. Video policy

Gcore

  • Description
    • They provide a cdn, dns with a free plan.
    • 1TB/month bandwidth for free plan.
    • L7 ddos protection is available for enterprise plan.
  • Network edge capacity
  • Have a free plan?
    • Yes
  • Pricing
    • Free plan: Free
    • Start plan: $37/month
    • Pro plan: $105/month
    • Enterprise plan: Contact sales
  • Additional bandwidth price
    • Free plan: 1TB free, $0.0315/GB for overage
    • Start plan: 1.5TB included, $0.024/GB for overage
    • Pro plan: 5TB free, $0.021/GB for overage
    • Enterprise plan: If you have any information about this, please pull request.
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes, for all plan.

BunnyCDN

  • Description
    • They provide a cdn, dns with a free trial.
    • 14 days free trial, no cc required.
  • Network edge capacity
  • Have a free plan?
    • No. 14-day free trial.
  • Pricing
    • $1/month minimum. Pricing page
    • Standard Network 119 PoPs
      • Europe & North America: $0.01/GB
      • Asia & Oceania: $0.03/GB
      • South America: $0.045/GB
      • Middle East & Africa: $0.06/GB
      • If you serving more than 100TB/m, contact sales team for enterprise plan.
    • Volume Network 10 PoP
      • First 500TB: $0.005/GB
      • From 500TB-1PB: $0.004/GB
      • From 1PB-2PB: $0.002/GB
      • From 2PB+: Contact sales team.
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

Akamai

  • Description
    • Most biggest CDN provider.
    • Focus on enterprise
  • Network edge capacity
    • Over 1 Pbps(2024.07)
  • Have a free plan?
    • No
  • Pricing
    • Enterprise: Contact sales team.
    • I reached out to them and they have a similar pricing policy to other CDNs.
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

CDN77

  • Description
    • Parent company of datapacket.com
    • Recommended for large bandwidth users.
  • Network edge capacity
  • Have a free plan?
  • Pricing
    • 250TB: $990/M
      • $3.96/TB overages
    • Over 250TB: Contact sales team.
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

CloudFront(AWS)

  • Description
    • AWS, Expensive
  • Network edge capacity
    • ? Tbps(2023.08)
  • Have a free plan?
    • Pay-as-you-go: 1TB and 10 million requests/month, always free.
    • Flat-rate Free plan: 100GB and 1 million requests/month.
  • Pricing
    • It's complicated, visit pricing page for more.
    • Paid flat-rate plans start at $15/month, with no overage charges.
    • Pricing page
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

Fastly

  • Description
    • Pricing is insanely expensive.
    • But no one pays full price for that, so reach out to sales and ask for enterprise pricing.
  • Network edge capacity
  • Have a free plan?
    • Yes, 100GB and 1 million requests/month.
  • Pricing
    • Visit pricing page for more.
    • Pricing page
    • $0.08/GB~$0.28/GB
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

CacheFly

  • Description
    • 100GB/m traffic with always free plan!
    • Free account supports one domain.
  • Network edge capacity
    • ? Tbps(2023.08)
  • Have a free plan?
    • Yes, 100GB/month for one domain.
  • Pricing
    • Developer: Free, 100GB/month, one domain.
    • Adoption: $299/month, 10TB/month.
    • Production: $1,499/month, 10TB/month.
    • Governance: $3,499/month, 10TB/month.
    • Contact sales for additional bandwidth.
    • Pricing page
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

Imperva

  • Description
    • Focus on ddos protection.
    • also WAF
  • DDoS scrubbing capacity
  • Have a free plan?
  • Pricing
    • Start >=$200
    • Contact sales team.
    • Very expensive, not suitable for large websites.
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • If you know, please send a pull request.

CDNetworks

  • Description
    • CDN focused on Asia (specifically China).
  • Network edge capacity
  • Have a free plan?
    • No. CDN Pro has a free trial.
  • Pricing
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

KeyCDN

  • Description
    • Made in Switzerland.
  • Network edge capacity
    • ? Tbps(2023.08)
  • Have a free plan?
    • No
  • Pricing
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

BelugaCDN

  • Description
    • Cheap
    • Use vultr as a infra.
  • Network edge capacity
    • ? Tbps(2023.08)
  • Have a free plan?
    • No
  • Pricing
    • Global same price, $0.01/GB
    • $1/month active account fee; starts with a $10 prepayment for 1,000GB.
    • Request overage fees apply above 5,000 requests per GB. Pricing details
    • There are additional discounts for bulk contracts.
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

DDOS-Guard

  • Description
    • Aka "bulletproof CDN"
    • Company located in russia, they don't care about dmca and other many abuse.
    • CDN nodes in Russia, Europe, the US, South America and Asia.
  • DDoS scrubbing capacity
  • Have a free plan?
  • Pricing
    • Start $100/m
    • All plan have unmeterd traffic
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • If you know, please send a pull request.

BlazingCDN

  • Description
    • Cheapest player
    • advancedhosting.com's brand
    • Uses NTT and other network carriers.
  • Network edge capacity
    • 5 Tbps(2024.07)
  • Have a free plan?
    • No. 14-day paid test at $5/TB, with the monthly minimum waived.
  • Pricing
    • $0.005/GB == $5/TB for the first 5TB, with a $25/month minimum.
    • Progressive volume tiers drop to $2.50/TB; bulk contracts can be cheaper. Pricing page
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

FDCservers

  • Description
    • Also cheapest player
    • Used to be Cogent-only, and the routing was terrible.
    • They revamped the service around 2025 and added more upstreams, including NTT. It's now pretty usable even in Asia.
  • Network edge capacity
    • 100 Tbps(2023.08)
  • Have a free plan?
    • No
  • Pricing
    • $20 to start, including 5TB.
    • 0-499TB: $4/TB; 500-1,999TB: $3/TB; 2,000TB+: $2/TB.
    • Pricing page
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

BytePlus CDN

  • Description
    • ByteDance's CDN.
    • Used fairly often in Asia, especially CJK.
    • Supports private S3-compatible origins. Origin settings.
  • Have a free plan?
    • One-time introductory package: 1TB of traffic and 10 million requests.
    • Check its expiry when claiming it. Trial details.
  • Pricing
    • Pay-as-you-go, settled hourly.
    • First 10TB/month:
      • North America & Europe: $0.044/GB
      • South Korea: $0.088/GB
    • Requests cost extra.
    • Pricing page

Google Cloud CDN

  • Description
    • Requires an external Application Load Balancer. Setup.
  • Have a free plan?
    • New Google Cloud customers can use a one-time $300 trial credit. Trial details.
  • Pricing
    • First 10TiB/month:
      • North America & Europe: $0.08/GiB
      • Asia Pacific: $0.09/GiB
    • Cache lookups and cache fill cost extra. Include load balancer charges in your estimate too.
    • Pricing page

Azure Front Door

  • Description
    • Microsoft's CDN with global load balancing.
    • The base fee alone is steep for a small site.
  • Pricing
    • Standard: from $35/month per profile.
    • Premium: from $330/month per profile, including managed WAF rules and Private Link support.
    • Requests and data transfer cost extra.
    • Pricing page

Sucuri

  • Description
    • A website firewall with a CDN included.
    • They advertise unlimited bandwidth, but I don't know the FUP.
    • Malware cleanup requires a Website Security Platform plan. Plan differences.
  • Pricing
    • Basic Firewall: from $9.99/month for one site, including the CDN.
    • Pricing page

Closed CDN Services

These CDN services have shut down. The descriptions and pricing below are preserved for historical reference.

StackPath

  • Description
    • Focus on ddos protection.
    • Also expensive
  • Network edge capacity
    • 100 Tbps(2023.08)
  • Have a free plan?
    • No
  • Have a POP in korea?
    • Yes
  • Pricing
    • 1TB: $27.5/m
    • Adittional bandwidth
      • 1TB-100TB: $0.044/GB
      • 100TB-1PB: $0.033/GB
      • Above 1PB: Contact sales team.
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

Edgio

  • Description
    • Formerly Limelight Networks
  • Network edge capacity
    • 250 Tbps(2023.08)
  • Have a free plan?
    • Yes, for unmetered traffic, but not for streaming video or audio, and large files.
  • Pricing
    • Contact sales team.
    • I've heard it's relatively inexpensive.
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes(not in free plan)

LumenCDN

  • Description
    • As the name suggests, it is a CDN provided by tier 1 ISP Lumen.
  • Network edge capacity
    • 170 Tbps(2023.08)
  • Have a free plan?
    • No
  • Pricing
    • Contact sales team.
    • Not much information.
  • Video streaming allowed?
    • Yes

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