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

• Cloudflare
• Gcore
• BunnyCDN
• Akamai
• CDN77
• CloudFront(AWS)
• Fastly
• CacheFly
• Imperva
• CDNetworks
• KeyCDN
• BelugaCDN
• DDOS-Guard
• BlazingCDN
• FDCservers
• BytePlus CDN
• Google Cloud CDN
• Azure Front Door
• Sucuri
• Closed CDN Services
  • StackPath
  • Edgio
  • LumenCDN

📦 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 capacity
  • 534 Tbps global network capacity (checked 2026.10).
• Have a free plan?
  • Yes
• Pricing
  • Free plan: Free
  • Pro plan: $25/month, or $20/month billed annually.
  • Business plan: $250/month, or $200/month billed annually.
  • Enterprise: $5,000+/month from what I've seen; contact sales for a quote.
• 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.
  • L3/L4 DDoS protection is included; WAAP is available on request.
• Network capacity
  • 200+ Tbps global network capacity (checked 2026.10).
• Have a free plan?
  • Yes
• Pricing
  • Pay-as-you-go: €0/month, including 1TB/month. Prices exclude VAT.
  • Enterprise plan: Contact sales.
  • Pricing page.
• Additional bandwidth price
  • First 1TB/month is free, then €0.01/GB.
  • Requests above 1 billion/month cost €0.75 per million.
• 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 capacity
  • 250+ Tbps network capacity (checked 2026.10).
• Have a free plan?
  • No. Trial ends after 14 days or credit exhaustion: $20 without a card, $50 with a card. Trial details.
• 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: Confirm pricing; the pricing page lists $0.002/GB, but the docs list $0.003/GB.
    • From 2PB+: Contact sales team.
• Video streaming allowed?
  • Yes

Akamai

• Description
  • Most biggest CDN provider.
  • Focus on enterprise
• Network edge capacity
  • 1+ Pbps edge capacity (checked 2026.10).
• Have a free plan?
  • No. 30-day Adaptive Media Delivery trial.
• 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 capacity
  • 330 Tbps global network capacity (checked 2026.10).
• Have a free plan?
  • No. Free trial available through sales.
• Pricing
  • 250TB: $990/M
    • $3.96/TB overages
  • Larger commitments: Contact sales team.
• Video streaming allowed?
  • Yes

CloudFront(AWS)

• Description
  • AWS, Expensive
• Network capacity
  • Hundreds of Tbps of deployed capacity (checked 2026.10).
• 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.
  • Flat-rate Pro: $15/month, including 50TB and 10 million requests, with no overage charges.
  • Sustained excess usage can lead to delivery adjustments.
  • 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 capacity
  • 622 Tbps connected global capacity (2026.06).
• Have a free plan?
  • Yes, 100GB and 1 million requests/month.
• Pricing
  • Visit pricing page for more.
  • Pricing page
  • First paid 10TB/month: $0.12/GB~$0.28/GB by region.
  • Next 10TB: $0.08/GB~$0.24/GB. Requests above the free allowance start at $0.01 per 10,000.
• Video streaming allowed?
  • Yes

CacheFly

• Description
  • 100GB traffic with a free developer account!
  • Free account supports one domain.
• Have a free plan?
  • Yes, 100GB for one domain; confirm the renewal period.
• Pricing
  • Developer: Free, 100GB, 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
  • 13 Tbps (checked 2026.10).
• Have a free plan?
  • No. 30-day free trial. Trials may be capped at 100 Mbps, with excess traffic null-routed.
• Pricing
  • 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
  • 200+ Tbps CDN capacity (2026.05).
• Have a free plan?
  • No. CDN Pro has a free trial.
• Pricing
  • Not an attractive price.
  • CDN Pro Professional: from $0.04/GB + $1.95/CPU-hour, with a $50/month minimum.
  • Pricing page
• Video streaming allowed?
  • Yes

KeyCDN

• Description
  • Made in Switzerland.
• Edge server connectivity
  • At least 40 Gbps of uplink connectivity per edge server (checked 2026.10).
• Have a free plan?
  • No. 14-day trial, no card required.
• Pricing
  • Also Not an attractive price.
  • First 10TB/month: North America & Europe $0.04/GB; Asia & Oceania $0.08/GB; Africa & Latin America $0.10/GB.
  • $4/month minimum usage; $49 minimum payment. Requests are included.
  • Pricing page
• Video streaming allowed?
  • Yes

BelugaCDN

• Description
  • Cheap
  • Use vultr as a infra.
• Have a free plan?
  • No. A 30-day Pro trial is advertised; confirm availability at signup.
• Pricing
  • Global same price, $0.01/GB
  • $1/month active account fee; starts with a $10 prepayment for 1,000GB.
  • Above 5,000 requests per GB: $0.0035 per 10,000 additional requests. Request fees
  • 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
  • 4+ Tbps (checked 2026.10).
• Have a free plan?
  • No. 3-day Basic trial.
• 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
  • Current aggregate capacity unconfirmed.
• 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 CDN permanent cache: first 500GB included, then $0.02/GB/month.
• 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.
• Provider network capacity
  • 100+ Tbps installed external capacity across FDC infrastructure (checked 2026.10).
• 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.
• Network edge capacity
  • 120+ Tbps CDN bandwidth capacity (checked 2026.10).
• Have a free plan?
  • One-time introductory package: 1TB of traffic and 10 million requests, valid for 30 days. Trial details.
• Pricing
  • Pay-as-you-go, settled hourly.
  • First 10TB/month:
    • North America & Europe: $0.044/GB
    • South Korea: $0.088/GB
  • Requests: $0.012 per 10,000. Edge-to-origin transfer: $0.06/GB.
  • Pricing page

Google Cloud CDN

• Description
  • Requires an external Application Load Balancer. Setup.
• Have a free plan?
  • Eligible new Google Cloud customers can use a one-time $300 credit for 90 days. Trial details.
• Pricing
  • First 10TiB/month:
    • North America & Europe: $0.08/GiB
    • Asia Pacific: $0.09/GiB
  • Cache lookups: $0.0075 per 10,000. Cache fill: $0.01~$0.04/GiB.
  • Load balancer forwarding rules start at $0.025/hour; other load balancer charges can apply.
  • Pricing page

Azure Front Door

• Description
  • Microsoft's CDN with global load balancing.
  • The base fee alone is steep for a small site.
• Have a free plan?
  • Eligible new Azure customers can use a one-time $200 credit for 30 days. Trial details.
• 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.
• Have a free plan?
  • No. 30-day Website Firewall trial.
• 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