Fastly Pricing: What 1 TB of CDN Traffic Actually Costs

Fastly prices CDN bandwidth per GB, per region, with the first 100 GB free every month. In Europe and North America the rate is $0.12 per GB, which makes 1 TB cost $110.88 after the free allowance (calculated 2026-10-25). That is roughly ten times what the cheapest CDN charges for the same byte count, so the useful question is not the rate but what the rate includes and which assumptions the page does not state. This page works the arithmetic region by region and records what Fastly does not publish.

What 1 TB costs by region

What the published rate actually means

The free allowance is per region per month, not per account, so a site serving 90 GB in Europe and 90 GB in Asia pays nothing for either. The $110.88 figure assumes all 1,024 GB land in one region and the 100 GB credit is consumed once: 924 GB at $0.12.

The rate steps down past 10 TB per region. Europe and North America fall to $0.08 per GB, Asia, Australia, Saudi Arabia and South America to $0.14, Mexico to $0.12 and Africa, India and South Korea to $0.24. Because the tiers are regional, a 15 TB month split evenly across Europe and Asia is billed at the first tier in both regions rather than the second in either.

Requests are a separate meter: 1 million free then $0.01 per 10,000. At 10 million requests the request charge is $9.00, which is noise against bandwidth for video and material for a site serving small icons, where 1 TB can mean tens of millions of requests.

How we measured it

We loaded the pricing page and the CDN product page on 2026-10-25 and read the Full Site Delivery bandwidth table directly, including the region labels and both volume tiers. The terabyte is read as 1,024 GB and the 100 GB free allowance subtracted once per region. No traffic was served and no account was opened.

One thing we looked for and did not find: a monthly minimum. The pricing page sells "pay-as-you-go, usage-based pricing" and publishes no floor for CDN bandwidth; the only flat monthly figure on it is a $500 per month edge-compute package. Anything quoted as a Fastly minimum elsewhere is not on the page a buyer is linked to.

What changes in practice

For a small site, Fastly's own free tier is the whole answer: 100 GB of bandwidth and 1 million requests a month cost nothing, which covers a blog with images comfortably and a small SaaS API easily. The first invoice arrives when traffic crosses either line, and it arrives at a rate that assumes enterprise traffic patterns.

The regional table is where budgets break. A product with a global audience can pay two to three times the European rate for the same number of bytes, and the discount for volume only applies inside a region. A 1 TB month in Africa costs $258.72 — more than twice the European price — so a launch that goes viral in the wrong continent can cost more than the servers.

TLS and support are priced separately and are easy to miss. Managed TLS is free for five domains then $20 per domain, a commercial-CA certificate is $275 per domain, and mutual TLS is $500 flat beyond two. Support plans are not on the bandwidth table at all.

Bottom line

At $110.88 per European or North American terabyte after the 100 GB free allowance, Fastly is worth its price only if the 100 GB free tier covers you or if the platform's other services are already in use. Below 100 GB a month the bill is $0; between 100 GB and 10 TB, budget $0.12 per GB in Europe and North America and up to $0.28 per GB in Africa, India or South Korea.