Awesome CDN

📝 Outline

This is a list of CDN with a detailed description of each one.

Pull requests are welcome.

📖 Table of Contents

• Cloudflare
• Gcore
• BunnyCDN
• Akamai
• CDN77
• CloudFront(AWS)
• Fastly
• CacheFly
• Imperva
• Edgio
• LumenCDN
• CDNetworks
• KeyCDN
• BelugaCDN
• DDOS-Guard
• BlazingCDN
• FDCservers

📦 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
  • 280 Tbps(2024.02)
• 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.
  • And video streaming is allowed only for enterprise plan.
  • 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?
  • Only for enterprise plan.

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
  • 200 Tbps(2024.07)
• 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: 1TB free, $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
  • 150 Tbps(2024.07)
• Have a free plan?
  • Yes, but only 14 days.
• Pricing
  • Standard Network 114 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
  • 180 Tbps(2024.07)
• Have a free plan?
  • Yes, 1TB traffic include.
• 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?
  • Yes, 1TB/month always free
• Pricing
  • It's complicated, visit pricing page for more.
  • 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
  • 336 Tbps(2024.07)
• Have a free plan?
  • Yes, always free for small website
• Pricing
  • Visit pricing page for more.
  • Pricing page
  • $0.08/GB~$0.28/GB
• Video streaming allowed?
  • Yes

CacheFly

• Description
  • 5TB/m traffic with always free plan!
  • But free user can use only EU/USA POP.
• Network edge capacity
  • ? Tbps(2023.08)
• Have a free plan?
  • Yes, but only EU/USA POP
• Pricing
  • Free:
    • $0/m
    • 5TB/m
    • 0.05$/GB Overage
    • 19 PoPs, North America and Europe
  • Business:
    • $295/m
    • 12TB/m
    • 0.03$/GB Overage
    • 64 PoPs
  • Enterprise:
    • $2495/m
    • 64TB/m
    • 0.015$/GB Overage
    • 109 PoPs
• Video streaming allowed?
  • Yes

Imperva

• Description
  • Focus on ddos protection.
  • also WAF
• Network edge capacity
  • 13 Tbps(2024.07)
• Have a free plan?
  • Yes, contact sales team.
• Pricing
  • Start >=$200
  • Contact sales team.
  • Very expensive, not suitable for large websites.
• Video streaming allowed?
  • If you know, please send a pull request.

Edgio

• Description
  • Formerly Limelight Networks
• Network edge capacity
  • 250 Tbps(2023.08)
• Have a free plan?
  • Yes, I don't have more information, but it appears to be a trial.
• Pricing
  • Contact sales team.
  • I've heard it's relatively inexpensive.
• Video streaming allowed?
  • Yes

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

CDNetworks

• Description
  • CDN focused on Asia (specifically China).
• Network edge capacity
  • 15 Tbps(2023.08)
• Have a free plan?
  • Yes, contact sales team.
• Pricing
  • Not an attractive price.
  • Pricing page
• Video streaming allowed?
  • Yes

KeyCDN

• Description
  • Made in Switzerland(?)
• Network edge capacity
  • ? Tbps(2023.08)
• Have a free plan?
  • No
• Pricing
  • Also Not an attractive price.
  • Pricing page
• 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
  • 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.
  • Only have 3 POP. EU, NA, HK.
• Network edge capacity
  • 3.2 Tbps(2023.08)
• Have a free plan?
  • No
• 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
  • Upstream is only Ntt
• Network edge capacity
  • 5 Tbps(2024.07)
• Have a free plan?
  • Yes, 10GB/m
• Pricing
  • $0.005/GB == $5/TB
  • There are additional discounts for bulk contracts.
• Video streaming allowed?
  • Yes

FDCservers

• Description
  • Also cheapest player
  • Upstream is only Cogent
  • All traffic is first routed to the LA before being processed.
  • In Asia, you will experience latency of over 300ms.
• Network edge capacity
  • 100 Tbps(2023.08)
• Have a free plan?
  • No
• Pricing
  • $4/TB
  • There are discounts for using more than 100 TB.
• Video streaming allowed?
  • Yes