--- title: "CloudFront Free Tier 2026: What Is Free and When You Pay" description: What the CloudFront free tier covers each month, which usage starts billing, and how costs grow past the free allowance, with worked examples. image: https://blog.blazingcdn.com/hubfs/Gemini-Blog/image-Nov-01-2026-08-25-09-6260-PM.jpeg --- [![BlazingCDN](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/hubfs/Logo/blog-logo-w.png)](https://blog.blazingcdn.com?hsLang=en-us) [📘 Learn ▾](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/cdn-learn?hsLang=en-us) [CDN Fundamentals](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/cdn-fundamentals?hsLang=en-us) [By Content Type](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/by-content-type?hsLang=en-us) [Advanced Concepts](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/advanced-concepts?hsLang=en-us) [📖 Glossary](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/glossary?hsLang=en-us) [🎬 Video & Streaming ▾](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/video-streaming-cdn?hsLang=en-us) [🔴 Live Streaming](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/live-streaming?hsLang=en-us) [📺 VOD & OTT](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/vod-ott?hsLang=en-us) [🎞️ Encoding & Players](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/encoding-players?hsLang=en-us) [🎧 Audio & Podcasts](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/audio-podcasts?hsLang=en-us) [💰 Bandwidth & Costs](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/bandwidth-costs?hsLang=en-us) [🏗️ Infrastructure ▾](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/cdn-infrastructure?hsLang=en-us) [🗄️ Storage & Origin](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/storage-origin?hsLang=en-us) [📦 Large File Delivery](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/large-file-delivery?hsLang=en-us) [💸 Cloud Costs & Egress](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/cloud-costs-egress?hsLang=en-us) [🌐 Networking & ISP](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/networking-isp?hsLang=en-us) [⚙️ DevOps & Cloud Infra](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/devops-cloud-infra?hsLang=en-us) [⚡ Web Performance](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/web-performance?hsLang=en-us) [🏭 Industries ▾](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/cdn-industry-insights?hsLang=en-us) [📺 Media & Broadcasting](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/media-broadcasting?hsLang=en-us) [💾 Software & SaaS](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/software-saas?hsLang=en-us) [📣 AdTech & Advertising](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/adtech-advertising?hsLang=en-us) [🎮 Gaming & Esports](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/gaming-esports?hsLang=en-us) [📱 Mobile Apps & Developers](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/mobile-apps-developers?hsLang=en-us) [🤖 AI & Machine Learning](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/ai-machine-learning?hsLang=en-us) [🏛️ Enterprise & Corporate](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/enterprise-corporate?hsLang=en-us) [📚 E-Learning & EdTech](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/e-learning-edtech?hsLang=en-us) [🏟️ Sports & Live Events](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/sports-live-events?hsLang=en-us) [💰 Pricing & Compare ▾](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/cdn-pricing-and-cdn-costs?hsLang=en-us) [Provider Pricing](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/provider-pricing?hsLang=en-us) [Cost Optimization](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/cost-optimization?hsLang=en-us) [Decision Support](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/decision-support?hsLang=en-us) [⚡ Compare](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/cdn-comparison?hsLang=en-us) [Provider Comparisons](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/provider-comparisons?hsLang=en-us) [Strategy Comparisons](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/strategy-comparisons?hsLang=en-us) [📊 Benchmarks](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/cdn-ratings-and-benchmarks?hsLang=en-us) [🔒 Security ▾](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/cdn-security?hsLang=en-us) [Attack Protection](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/attack-protection?hsLang=en-us) [Encryption & Access](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/encryption-access?hsLang=en-us) [Video & DRM Security](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/video-drm-security?hsLang=en-us) [🛠️ Tools](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/cdn-tools?hsLang=en-us) [Get Started](https://blazingcdn.com/sign-up-contact-form/) [Pricing - Pricing & Costs](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/tag/pricing-pricing-costs) [Pricing - Provider Pricing](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/tag/pricing-provider-pricing) # CloudFront Free Tier 2026: What Is Free and When You Pay Vadym Borovskyi Nov 1, 2026, 9:27:55 PM ![](https://blog.blazingcdn.com/hubfs/Gemini-Blog/image-Nov-01-2026-08-25-09-6260-PM.jpeg) The Amazon CloudFront free tier gives every AWS account 1 TB of data transfer out, 10 million HTTP and HTTPS requests and 2 million CloudFront Functions invocations per month, with no 12-month expiry. AWS has published this always-free allowance since December 2021, and usage past it is billed per GB and per request, starting near $0.085 per GB in North America and Europe. This brief covers what the free allowance includes and excludes, which usage starts billing, how the flat-rate plans compare with pay-as-you-go, four worked monthly bills from 600 GB to 200 TB, and the volume at which another CDN costs less than CloudFront. - **$0:** monthly CloudFront bill for traffic under 1 TB, 10 million requests and 2 million function invocations. - **$85 per TB:** first pay-as-you-go tier for North America and Europe, published price lists, checked August 2026. - **$1,000 per billion:** HTTPS request fees in North America and Europe, charged on top of transfer. - **$6,965:** CloudFront pay-as-you-go transfer cost at 100 TB a month, published price lists, checked August 2026. ## **What the CloudFront free tier covers each month** The CloudFront free tier covers 1 TB of data transfer out to the internet, 10 million HTTP or HTTPS requests, and 2 million CloudFront Functions invocations per month, aggregated across all edge locations. It does not expire after 12 months. Lambda@Edge, dedicated IP certificates, real-time logs and field-level encryption are billed separately from the first use. | Usage type | Always-free monthly allowance | Billed past the allowance | | --- | --- | --- | | Data transfer out to the internet | 1 TB | Per GB, by region and volume tier | | HTTP and HTTPS requests | 10 million | Per 10,000 requests, by region and protocol | | CloudFront Functions | 2 million invocations | $0.10 per million invocations | | Lambda@Edge, real-time logs, field-level encryption | None | From the first request or log line | The free allowance absorbs core delivery for small sites, but every add-on beyond CloudFront Functions bills from zero. Two adjacent rules shape the real bill. Origin fetches from AWS origins such as Amazon S3, EC2 or an Application Load Balancer carry no data transfer charge, so a cache miss to S3 costs only the S3 request. Under AWS Organizations with consolidated billing, the free allowance applies once per organization, not once per member account. ## **How CloudFront pricing tiers work past the free allowance** CloudFront pricing tiers are progressive per-GB rates that fall as monthly volume grows, set separately for each geographic region. In North America and Europe the first 10 TB costs $0.085 per GB, the next 40 TB $0.080, the next 100 TB $0.060 and the next 350 TB $0.040, per published price lists checked August 2026. Regional multipliers matter more than most estimates assume. South America, Australia, Japan and India start between roughly $0.109 and $0.114 per GB in their first tier, so a global audience can push the blended rate 20 to 35 percent above the North American figure (our estimate for an audience with about a third of traffic outside North America and Europe). Requests are a second meter. HTTPS requests cost $0.0100 per 10,000 in North America and Europe and HTTP requests $0.0075, with higher rates in South America and parts of Asia Pacific. For small-object workloads such as APIs, thumbnails or HLS segments with short durations, request fees can rival transfer cost. The extras from the original CloudFront price sheet still apply in 2026: - **Custom TLS certificates:** SNI certificates carry no fee; dedicated IP certificates cost $600 per month each. - **Real-time logs:** $0.01 per million log lines. - **Field-level encryption:** $0.02 per 10,000 requests. - **Invalidations:** first 1,000 paths a month at no charge, then $0.005 per path. - **Origin Shield:** a per-request fee on traffic routed through the shield layer. ## **Flat-rate plans vs pay-as-you-go** Since late 2025 AWS has also sold CloudFront as flat-rate monthly plans that bundle delivery with AWS WAF rules, DDoS protection, DNS and a storage credit. The published tiers are Free at $0 (1 million requests, 100 GB), Pro at $15 (10 million requests, 50 TB), Business at $200 (125 million requests, 50 TB) and Premium at $1,000 (500 million requests, 50 TB). The flat plans do not bill per-GB overages, so they cap budget risk rather than unit cost. Read the current plan terms for how sustained usage above an allowance is handled before committing a production workload. For budget owners the rule is simple: request count, not bandwidth, usually decides which plan fits, because all three paid tiers share the same 50 TB transfer allowance. ## **Worked examples: four monthly CloudFront bills** All examples assume North America and Europe traffic, HTTPS, 1 TB counted as 1,000 GB, and pay-as-you-go rates from published price lists checked August 2026. The totals are estimates and exclude add-ons. ### Example 1: 600 GB and 6 million requests Every meter stays under its free cap, so the bill is $0. This is the profile of a documentation site or a small SaaS marketing page. ### Example 2: 3 TB and 30 million requests Transfer: 2,000 billable GB at $0.085 is $170. Requests: 20 million billable divided by 10,000 is 2,000 units at $0.01, so $20. Total: about $190. The flat-rate Business plan costs $200 for the same month and adds WAF and DDoS protection, which makes it the better buy if you would otherwise pay for those separately. Pro at $15 does not fit, because 30 million requests exceeds its 10 million cap. ### Example 3: 20 TB and 200 million requests Transfer: 10 TB at $85 plus 10 TB at $80, minus the free 1 TB at $85, is $1,565. Requests: 190 million billable is 19,000 units at $0.01, so $190. Total: about $1,755. Premium at $1,000 covers this month with headroom, so pay-as-you-go stops making sense here. ### Example 4: 100 TB and 200 TB At 100 TB, transfer alone costs $6,965 on pay-as-you-go, and each billion HTTPS requests adds $1,000. At 200 TB transfer reaches $11,965, against $3,500 on Premium, per published price lists checked August 2026. This is the range where the CDN line item becomes a budget conversation. ## **When another CDN costs less than CloudFront at scale** Below about 46 TB a month, CloudFront Business at $200 for 50 TB and Cloudflare Pro or Business at $25 and $250 a month can cost less than metered CDNs, so no cost ranking is offered at that volume. At 100 TB, the ranking below uses list price as the criterion. | Vendor | Cost at 100 TB a month | Billing model | Honest limitation | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | BlazingCDN | $415 | Progressive per-TB tiers, one global rate, no request fees | No HTTP/3, no WAF or DDoS product, no free tier | | bunny.net | $500 Volume network, $1,000 Standard | Per-GB, network-dependent | Lowest rate requires the Volume network, which trades location coverage for price | | CDN77 | $990 | One plan covering up to 250 TB | At 100 TB you pay for unused plan headroom | | Amazon CloudFront Premium | From $1,000 | Flat monthly plan with security bundle | Fixed allowances; check terms above 50 TB | | Amazon CloudFront pay-as-you-go | $6,965 for transfer alone | Per-GB regional tiers plus per-request fees | Two meters and regional multipliers make bills hard to forecast | At 100 TB a month, CloudFront pay-as-you-go costs roughly 7 to 17 times more than metered cost-at-scale CDNs for the same transfer. BlazingCDN publishes this blog, so verify the ranking on your own traffic; the 14-day testing period exists for that. As of November 2026, BlazingCDN charges from $5 per TB down to $2.50 per TB at volume, with one rate for US, Europe and Asia and no request fees, so 100 TB costs $415 a month and 200 TB costs $765. Current rates are on the BlazingCDN pricing page. The fit is high-volume static delivery: video on demand, HLS and DASH segments, installers, game patches and large archives, with files up to 50 GB per object. The [**BlazingCDN vs Amazon CloudFront cost comparison**](https://blazingcdn.com/vs/aws-cloudfront/) walks through the same math at other volumes. CloudFront remains the stronger choice when you need Lambda@Edge, deep IAM and S3 integration, or a bundled security edge. Cloudflare is the stronger pick when the CDN must also be the security layer, and Akamai publishes no CDN price list, so its cost is quote-based. ## **Decision matrix: which CloudFront billing model fits** | Monthly profile | Best fit | Why | | --- | --- | --- | | Under 1 TB and 10 million requests | Always-free tier, pay-as-you-go account | $0 with no commitment | | 1 to 50 TB, under 10 million requests | Flat-rate Pro | $15 caps the bill if features suffice | | 1 to 50 TB, request-heavy or needing WAF | Flat-rate Business or Premium | Request fees disappear inside the plan | | Above 50 TB of large static files | Metered cost-at-scale CDN, CloudFront kept for dynamic paths | Per-TB price gap widens with volume | | Edge compute or AWS-native auth at any volume | CloudFront pay-as-you-go or negotiated pricing | Integration value outweighs unit cost | Request count picks the CloudFront plan below 50 TB, while transfer volume decides whether CloudFront should carry heavy files at all. ## **Failure modes: how free tier usage turns into a bill** The CloudFront allowance rarely fails loudly. These are the patterns that produce an unexpected invoice, how each shows up, and how to confirm it. - **Organization sharing:** five accounts each serving 400 GB look free individually but total 2 TB. It shows up on the payer account only; confirm in Cost Explorer grouped by linked account. - **Request-heavy assets:** a site at 300 GB with 60 million requests pays about $50 in request fees. Confirm with the CloudWatch Requests metric against BytesDownloaded. - **Low cache hit ratio:** non-AWS origins pay egress on every miss, and Origin Shield adds per-request fees. Watch CacheHitRate in CloudFront additional metrics and normalize the cache key. - **Regional skew:** traffic growth in Asia Pacific or South America raises the blended rate before volume changes. Confirm with the billing usage type breakdown by region. - **Silent add-ons:** Lambda@Edge, real-time logs and invalidation storms bill from the first unit. Set an AWS Budgets alert at a small dollar threshold to catch them early. ## **How to reduce CloudFront costs** Track BytesDownloaded and Requests in Amazon CloudWatch weekly, and alert at 80 percent of the free caps. Raise cache TTLs and strip unused query strings and headers from the cache key to cut origin fetches. Enable Brotli and gzip compression, which typically shrinks text assets 60 to 80 percent. Audit dedicated IP certificates, real-time logs and field-level encryption, and keep each only where it earns its cost. ## **FAQ: AWS CloudFront free tier and pricing** ### Is CloudFront free? Amazon CloudFront is free up to 1 TB of data transfer out, 10 million HTTP and HTTPS requests and 2 million CloudFront Functions invocations each month. Usage beyond those caps is billed per GB and per request. AWS also sells a $0 flat-rate plan with 100 GB and 1 million requests, which is smaller than the always-free allowance on a pay-as-you-go account. ### Does the AWS CloudFront free tier expire after 12 months? No, the AWS CloudFront free tier is an always-free offer that renews every month without expiry. AWS published the 1 TB and 10 million request allowance in December 2021, replacing the earlier 12-month limited offer. Under AWS Organizations with consolidated billing, the allowance is shared once across the whole organization rather than granted to each account. ### What does CloudFront cost after the free tier? After the free tier, CloudFront transfer in North America and Europe starts at $0.085 per GB for the first 10 TB, and HTTPS requests cost $0.01 per 10,000, per published price lists checked August 2026. Other regions cost more. A month of 3 TB and 30 million requests costs about $190 on pay-as-you-go pricing. ### Are CloudFront flat-rate plans cheaper than pay-as-you-go? CloudFront flat-rate plans are usually cheaper once monthly usage exceeds a few terabytes or tens of millions of requests. Pro costs $15 for 50 TB and 10 million requests, Business $200 with 125 million requests, and Premium $1,000 with 500 million. Each bundles WAF and DDoS protection, which pay-as-you-go accounts buy separately. ### At what volume is another CDN cheaper than CloudFront? Another CDN typically becomes cheaper than CloudFront above roughly 46 to 50 TB a month of static delivery. Below that, CloudFront Business at $200 for 50 TB can win. At 100 TB, CloudFront pay-as-you-go transfer costs $6,965 and Premium starts at $1,000, while BlazingCDN costs $415 as of November 2026, per its pricing page. ## **Model your CloudFront bill before the free tier runs out** This week, export 30 days of CloudFront usage from Cost Explorer, split by region and usage type, and rebuild the bill with the tier math above. Add request fees separately, then price the same month on the Pro, Business and Premium plans. Flag any month where transfer exceeds 50 TB or requests exceed your plan cap, because that is where billing model choice moves the number most. Keep the spreadsheet: it becomes the baseline for any vendor discussion. If the math shows large static files dominating your egress, the [**BlazingCDN CDN cost calculator**](https://blazingcdn.com/cdn-cost-calculator/) prices the same traffic on progressive tiers from $5 per TB, with no request fees. 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