CDN Pricing Comparison 2026: 12 Providers by Cost per GB

At 100 TB of monthly delivery, published CDN prices checked in August 2026 range from $415 to $6,965 for the same bytes, a spread of nearly 17x. This CDN pricing comparison ranks 12 providers by published cost per TB and per GB, then adds the costs headline rates hide: request fees, monthly minimums, commitments and regional multipliers. Evaluated November 2026, list prices as checked August 2026.

At 100 TB a month, BlazingCDN costs $415, bunny.net $500 on its Volume network, CDN77 $990 and Amazon CloudFront $6,965 pay as you go for transfer alone, according to published price lists checked August 2026. Request fees can add more than the transfer bill itself when average response size falls below about 17 KB.

Below you get a ranked cost table, a request-fee cost model, a workload decision matrix and the methodology behind every number.

Published CDN pricing comparison at 100 TB a month

The ranking criterion is the published monthly cost of 100 TB of delivery, the volume where six providers publish a figure you can check. Rows are ordered by the lowest published option for each provider. Per-GB figures are the monthly total divided by 100,000 GB.

At 100 TB a month, four of six providers with published figures land at or under $1,000, while metered hyperscaler transfer costs roughly seven times more.

BlazingCDN publishes this blog, so verify this ranking on your own traffic; its 14-day testing period on real production traffic exists for exactly that.

As of November 2026, BlazingCDN prices delivery from $5 per TB down to $2.50 per TB at volume on progressive marginal tiers, with one rate for the US, Europe and Asia and no request fees. That works out to $415 for 100 TB and $765 for 200 TB; current rates are on the BlazingCDN pricing page.

The 100 TB math, tier by tier: 5 TB at $5 ($25), 20 TB at $4.50 ($90), 75 TB at $4 ($300), total $415. The nearest published competitor is $85 a month away, and the BlazingCDN vs bunny.net pricing breakdown compares the two at other volumes.

Providers without a 100 TB list price

Six providers either publish rates at other volumes or publish no rates at all. They are listed here unranked, because forcing them into a 100 TB column would mean inventing numbers.

Wherever a hyperscaler or premium vendor publishes a high-volume rate, it sits roughly 11x to 23x above the cheapest metered option at the same volume.

Two names from earlier comparisons are gone: Edgio (formerly Limelight) wound down after its 2024 bankruptcy, and StackPath exited CDN delivery in 2024.

CDN price per GB: why the headline rate misleads

A CDN price per GB covers transfer only. The real bill adds per-request charges, monthly minimums, plan commitments and regional multipliers. For large-object traffic such as video segments and installers, transfer dominates. For small API or HTML responses, request fees can exceed transfer, so compare all-in monthly cost, not the per-GB line.

Request fees vs object size: a worked cost model

The two comparison dimensions the earlier version of this page lacked are request fees and minimums or commitments. Request fees matter more, and object size decides how much.

Take 100 TB of API responses averaging 5 KB: 100,000,000,000,000 bytes divided by 5,000 is 20 billion requests. At an estimated $0.0075 to $0.0100 per 10,000 HTTPS requests (typical hyperscaler pay-as-you-go range, our estimate), that is $15,000 to $20,000 a month in request fees, more than double the $6,965 transfer line for the same 100 TB on Amazon CloudFront pay as you go.

Ship the same 100 TB as 2 MB video segments and the count drops to 50 million requests, or $38 to $50 at the same rates. The crossover is simple arithmetic: with transfer at $0.06 per GB and requests at $0.01 per 10,000, request cost equals transfer cost at an average object size near 17 KB. Below that, request pricing should be your primary selection criterion.

Costs beyond bandwidth

• Origin shield and cache fill: some vendors bill shield requests or cache fill separately; a low cache hit ratio multiplies both.
• Cloud egress: origin-to-CDN transfer out of a cloud bucket can rival the CDN bill unless the CDN sits inside the same cloud.
• Real-time logs: often priced per log line or per GB shipped.
• Image optimization and edge compute: commonly metered per transformation or per invocation.
• Purge and invalidation: some providers charge beyond a free monthly allowance.

CDN cost comparison by provider: one strength, one limit

• BlazingCDN: one global rate and no request fees suit high-volume video, software and game delivery. Limit: no HTTP/3, WebSockets, WAF or DDoS mitigation; keep your security stack beside it.
• bunny.net: low per-GB pricing with a broad self-serve toolset. Limit: the cheaper Volume network runs on fewer locations than Standard.
• CDN77: predictable flat plans with video delivery experience. Limit: at 100 TB you pay for a plan sized to 250 TB.
• Amazon CloudFront: tight AWS integration, and transfer from AWS origins to CloudFront is not billed. Limit: pay-as-you-go transfer plus request fees is the most expensive published path here.
• Gcore: wide product range including edge security and compute. Limit: about EUR 2,000 at 100 TB list, roughly four times the cheapest row.
• KeyCDN: simple, transparent pay-as-you-go. Limit: delivery into Asia doubles the bill.
• Google Cloud CDN: natural fit for Google Cloud origins. Limit: about $10,500 at 200 TB before cache lookup fees.
• Azure Front Door: integrated routing and security for Azure workloads. Limit: about $9,500 at 150 TB plus a base fee.
• Fastly: programmable edge and fast purge, strong for streaming logic. Limit: the rate card stops near 20 TB; above that, negotiate.
• Cloudflare: the broadest security and edge platform on cheap self-serve plans. Limit: self-serve terms steer large media libraries toward its paid media products.
• Akamai: unmatched platform breadth and security portfolio. Limit: no public price list, so every comparison starts with a sales cycle.
• Medianova: media-focused delivery with custom contracts. Limit: quote-based pricing makes early budgeting harder.

Best fit by workload: decision matrix

Object size and security requirements decide the shortlist before per-GB price does.

Methodology: how these prices were compared

All figures come from each provider's published price list, checked August 2026, and cover delivery transfer only unless a row says otherwise. Negotiated discounts, taxes and add-ons are excluded. One TB equals 1,000 GB. Euro prices are left unconverted to avoid inventing an exchange rate. Where a provider publishes no rate at the target volume, the table says so rather than extrapolating.

How to choose a CDN from your own numbers

Pull 90 days of traffic data: GB per region, request count, average object size, cache hit ratio, 95th percentile bandwidth and origin location. Model each shortlisted provider's all-in monthly cost, then run a weighted DNS split on real traffic before signing any commitment.

FAQ: CDN pricing comparison questions

How much does a CDN cost for 100 TB a month?

CDN cost for 100 TB a month ranges from $415 to $6,965 for transfer alone, per published price lists checked August 2026. BlazingCDN sits at $415, bunny.net at $500 on Volume, CDN77 at $990, and Amazon CloudFront at $6,965 pay as you go. Request fees, regional multipliers and minimums can move the final number further.

What is the lowest published CDN price per GB in 2026?

Among providers publishing 100 TB rates, the lowest effective CDN price per GB as of August 2026 list checks is about $0.004, with bunny.net Volume at $0.005. Per-GB figures exclude request fees and minimums, so a provider with a slightly higher transfer rate but no request charges can still win on all-in monthly cost.

When do CDN request fees cost more than bandwidth?

CDN request fees overtake bandwidth when average object size falls below roughly 17 KB, assuming $0.06 per GB transfer and $0.01 per 10,000 requests. At 5 KB, 100 TB means 20 billion requests and an estimated $15,000 to $20,000 in request charges. Video segments and installers rarely reach that threshold.

Why does Akamai not publish CDN pricing?

Akamai sells CDN delivery through negotiated commit-and-overage contracts, so no public CDN price list exists. Pricing depends on committed volume, regions, contract length and bundled security products. For a CDN cost comparison, request a written quote at your 90-day traffic profile and compare all-in monthly cost, including overage rates, against published providers.

How long does a CDN pricing test on real traffic take?

A useful CDN pricing test needs about two weeks of real production traffic, enough to capture weekly peaks and a representative cache hit ratio. Route 5 to 10 percent of traffic through a weighted DNS split, compare billed totals and latency per region, then scale up only if both hold.

Price your own traffic before you shortlist

This week, export 90 days of CDN logs and compute four numbers: TB per region, total requests, average object size and cache hit ratio. Plug them into each shortlisted provider's published price list, add request fees using the 17 KB crossover as a sanity check, and rank by all-in monthly cost instead of headline per-GB rate. That model holds whichever vendor you pick.

If your traffic is mostly video, downloads or large files, the BlazingCDN CDN cost calculator prices the same volumes on progressive tiers from $5 per TB, with no request fees and one global rate.