Comparison

Fastly vs Cloudflare: Build for the agent era

Fastly and Cloudflare: Build for the agent era both land on Depends.

Fastly

Depends

Confidence: Low

Buy if you run high-traffic media, ecommerce, or streaming with engineers to run a programmable edge.

Depends

Confidence: Low

Developer teams wanting compute, AI agents, and security on one global network should start with the free tier.

Fastly versus Cloudflare: Build for the agent era
Compare	Fastly	Cloudflare: Build for the agent era
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	High-traffic media and streaming	Developer teams shipping global apps
Who it's not for	Small blogs and low-traffic sites	Non-technical founders who can't write code
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^⁵	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^⁸
Support quality	Promises migration partnership; claims only, no review data	No support evidence in sources
Public sentiment	Nearly all evidence is Fastly marketing; cited customers praise speed, cost, and fast rollout, with no independent review data.^¹	No independent user reviews were found; the only customer voice is a vendor-published testimonial.^⁹
Biggest gotcha	Usage-based billing can spike with traffic; 'predictable pricing, no surprises' is asserted, no rates published^³	Proprietary runtimes (Workers, Durable Objects) create real lock-in; plan an exit path^⁹