CDN pricing, vendors side by side
CDN bandwidth and request prices from the clouds and hosting platforms we track, each read off the vendor's own page. Price one month of traffic across all of them.
Price one workload across every CDN vendor
Starts at 1 TB of CDN traffic and 10M requests a month. Change the numbers and the table re-sorts, cheapest first.
| Vendor | Estimated month | Cheapest listed option | What is not priced | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | $0.00 | Pay as you go: CloudFront data transfer out (United States, Mexico, Canada), CloudFront HTTPS requests (United States) | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 | |
| Google Cloud | $87.50 | Pay as you go: Cloud CDN cache egress to North America, Cloud CDN cache lookup requests | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 | |
| Vercel | $153.00 | Hobby: Fast Data Transfer (CDN to visitors), on demand, CDN requests, on demand | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 | |
| Netlify | $166.63 | Pro ($20.00 a month): Web bandwidth (Pro, at $20 / 3,000 credits), Web requests (Pro, includes edge functions) | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 | |
| DigitalOcean | from $5.00 | Spaces Standard Storage subscription ($5.00 a month): Spaces outbound transfer (incl. CDN) beyond 1,024 GiB | No listed price for requests | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| Microsoft Azure | from $82.50 | Pay as you go: Front Door Standard, edge to client, Zone 1 North America | No listed price for requests | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| Cloudflare | Check the vendor's page | No published rate for this workload | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
List prices in USD before tax and discounts. Each vendor is priced on its cheapest plan that lists a rate for every line, and the vendor's own region and tier assumptions apply (see each vendor page). "From" means some lines have no listed price, so the real bill is higher.
The rates behind the estimate
The published rate for each line of the workload, with the free or included amount. Each row links to the vendor's own pricing page.
| Vendor | Rate | Free or included | Plan | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | CloudFront data transfer out (United States, Mexico, Canada)$0.085 per GB, falling with volume | First 1,024 GB free | All | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| CloudFront HTTPS requests (United States)$1 per 1M requests | First 10M requests included | All | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 | |
| Microsoft Azure | Front Door Standard, edge to client, Zone 1 North America$0.0825 per GB, falling with volume | None | All | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| Google Cloud | Cloud CDN cache egress to North America$0.08 per GB, falling with volume | None | All | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| Cloud CDN cache lookup requests$0.75 per 1M requests | None | All | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 | |
| Cloudflare | No usage rate published on the pricing page. Plans: Workers Free $0.00, Workers Paid $5.00, Free (CDN / app services) $0.00, Pro $25.00, Business $250.00. | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 | ||
| Vercel | Fast Data Transfer (CDN to visitors), on demand$0.15 per GB | First 100 GB included | All | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| CDN requests, on demand$2 per 1M requests | First 1M requests included | All | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 | |
| Netlify | Web bandwidth (Pro, at $20 / 3,000 credits)$0.133 per GB | None | Pro | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| Web bandwidth (Personal add-on credits)$0.20 per GB | None | Personal | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 | |
| Web requests (Pro, includes edge functions)$1.33 per 1M requests | None | Pro | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 | |
| DigitalOcean | Spaces outbound transfer (incl. CDN) beyond 1,024 GiB$0.01 per GB | First 1,024 GB included | Spaces Standard Storage subscription | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
How to choose CDN on price
Price the traffic, not the plan
Check what a plan bundles
Watch origin and regional costs
CDN pricing questions
Which CDN vendor is cheapest?
For 1 TB of CDN traffic and 10M requests a month, AWS comes out lowest at no charge, inside its free allowance, and Netlify highest at about $166.63, checked 2026-10-25. A different workload can change the order, so enter your own numbers in the estimator.
How is the estimate worked out?
Each vendor is priced on its cheapest plan that lists a rate for every line of the workload: the plan fee plus each usage line, after any free or included amount. A plan's monthly minimum counts as a floor. Volume tiers are applied in order. Taxes, discounts and committed-use deals are left out.
Why are some vendors missing a price?
Cloudflare does not publish a rate for this workload on the pricing page, so the table says so instead of guessing.
How current are these prices?
Every rate was read off the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-25 and links to it. Prices change often: check the vendor's page before you commit, and tell us if a number here is out of date.
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