The best CDN providers in 2026 split into two leagues. Platform CDNs (Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, Amazon CloudFront) win on security, edge compute and programmability. Volume CDNs (BlazingCDN, bunny.net, CDN77) win on cost per terabyte. At 100 TB a month the gap is wide: Amazon CloudFront lists $6,965 for transfer alone, while BlazingCDN lists $415. Evaluated November 2026, with list prices as checked August 2026, this comparison gives you a ranked shortlist of 11 providers, a cost curve from 25 TB to 2 PB, and a workload matrix for a defensible pick.
On published price lists checked August 2026, delivering 100 TB a month costs $415 on BlazingCDN, $500 on the bunny.net Volume network, $990 on CDN77 and $6,965 on Amazon CloudFront pay-as-you-go. Platform CDNs justify their premium only when you use their security, routing or edge-compute features; for bulk static delivery, the bill is mostly transfer.
The ranking below keeps one verdict per provider. It ranks fit for the provider's strongest workload, not a single universal score, because no CDN wins every workload at once.
Compare top CDN providers on five criteria: cost per TB at your real volume, billing model, protocol and feature fit, support model, and switching cost. Then confirm performance with your own real-user P95 and P99 time to first byte (TTFB), because vendor-published latency rarely matches your audience mix or object sizes.
Methodology note: the prices in this article come from each provider's published price list, checked August 2026, and estimates are labeled. The only latency figures cited are vendor-published measurements; treat the ranking as a shortlist and let your own traffic decide.
| Provider | 100 TB a month | 200 TB a month | Billing model |
|---|---|---|---|
| BlazingCDN | $415 | $765 | Marginal tiers, one global rate, no request fees |
| bunny.net (Volume) | $500 ($1,000 Standard) | about $1,000 (estimate) | Per GB, separate Volume and Standard networks |
| CDN77 | $990 | $990 (same plan, up to 250 TB) | Flat plans by traffic band |
| Amazon CloudFront | $6,965 pay as you go, from $1,000 Premium | $11,965 pay as you go, $3,500 Premium | Per GB by region plus requests, or flat-rate plans |
| Gcore | about EUR 2,000 | quote-based | Plans plus overage |
| KeyCDN | $2,600 (NA/EU), $5,200 into Asia | $3,600 to $11,200 by continent | Per GB, regional pricing |
| Google Cloud CDN | not modeled | about $10,500 | Per GB plus load balancer and request charges |
At 100 TB and 200 TB a month, volume CDNs cost roughly one tenth of hyperscaler pay-as-you-go transfer.
BlazingCDN publishes this blog, so verify this result on your own traffic; the 14-day testing period exists for exactly that.
Two more published reference points: Fastly's rate card reaches about 20 TB, where the month costs $2,087 (BlazingCDN: $92.50), and Azure Front Door publishes rates to 150 TB, about $9,500 (BlazingCDN: $590). Akamai publishes no CDN price list, and Cloudflare Enterprise is widely reported to start near $5,000 a month.
The previous version of this article listed 2 PB on BlazingCDN at $4,000, an effective $2 per TB. Under marginal billing that is arithmetically impossible: every terabyte is billed at its bracket rate, so the effective rate always sits above the lowest bracket, which is $2.50. Here is the corrected math, as of November 2026.
| Monthly traffic | BlazingCDN total | BlazingCDN effective per TB | Amazon CloudFront pay as you go (transfer) | bunny.net Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 TB | $115 | $4.60 | about $2,000 (estimate) | about $125 (estimate) |
| 100 TB | $415 | $4.15 | $6,965 | $500 |
| 500 TB | $1,815 | $3.63 | about $24,000 (estimate) | about $2,500 (estimate) |
| 2 PB (2,000 TB) | about $5,815 at published tiers (estimate), Enterprise X quote applies | about $2.91 | about $64,000 (estimate) | tiered, not modeled |
Effective cost per TB falls with volume on every metered CDN, but the hyperscaler premium persists at every point on the curve.
The brackets work like tax brackets. For 1,500 TB: 5 TB at $5.00 ($25), 20 TB at $4.50 ($90), 75 TB at $4.00 ($300), 400 TB at $3.50 ($1,400), 500 TB at $3.00 ($1,500) and 500 TB at $2.50 ($1,250), for $4,565. The published tiers end at 1,500 TB. Extending the $2.50 bracket by another 500 TB adds $1,250, so 2,000 TB lands near $5,815, an effective $2.91 per TB; this is our estimate, because traffic above 500 TB a month falls under Enterprise X, which is individually quoted with discounts of up to 60 percent against entry pricing.
As of November 2026, BlazingCDN charges from $5 per TB down to $2.50 per TB at volume, with one rate for the US, Europe and Asia, so 100 TB costs $415 and 200 TB costs $765 a month. Current rates live on the BlazingCDN pricing page with the full tier table.
Below about 46 TB a month, metered pricing loses to flat plans: Amazon CloudFront Business costs $200 for 50 TB, and Cloudflare Pro or Business cost $25 and $250 a month. Excluded from all figures above: taxes, negotiated discounts, and request fees on providers that charge them.
Cloudflare pairs a large Anycast network with WAF, bot management, Workers and R2 in one control plane. Limitation: Enterprise is quote-based and widely reported to start near $5,000 a month, a steep step up from Business.
BlazingCDN targets high-volume static delivery (video on demand, HLS and DASH, installers, game patches, large archives) on NVMe SSD servers with Anycast routing and a 96 percent plus average cache hit ratio. Measured June 2026 on a 100 MB HTTPS download, it reached 24 ms and 1.11 Gb/s in North America, 27 ms and 1.12 Gb/s in Europe, and 47 ms and 761 Mb/s in Asia. The BlazingCDN vs Amazon CloudFront comparison walks through the same cost gap at more volumes. Limitation: no HTTP/3, WebSockets, transcoding or RTMP ingest, no WAF or DDoS mitigation, and no free tier.
Akamai brings mature security products and enterprise contract terms that regulated buyers need. Limitation: no published CDN price list, so every number requires a sales cycle.
Amazon CloudFront integrates tightly with S3, Lambda@Edge and Origin Access Control, and origin fetches from AWS are not billed as egress. Limitation: pay-as-you-go transfer reaches $6,965 at 100 TB unless you move to a flat-rate plan.
Fastly offers programmable caching and purges that complete in a fraction of a second, which matters for APIs and ecommerce. Limitation: its rate card stops near 20 TB at $2,087, so bulk delivery is expensive or negotiated.
bunny.net combines simple per-GB pricing with storage, optimizer and stream products. Limitation: the cheaper Volume network has a smaller footprint than its Standard network.
Google Cloud CDN fits teams already using Cloud Load Balancing and Cloud Armor. Limitation: about $10,500 at 200 TB, plus load balancer charges.
Azure Front Door merges global routing, CDN and WAF for Azure estates. Limitation: about $9,500 at 150 TB on published rates.
CDN77 gives detailed per-location analytics and predictable plan pricing. Limitation: costs move in plan steps, so $990 covers 100 TB and 250 TB alike.
KeyCDN keeps billing transparent for small and mid-sized sites. Limitation: $2,600 at 100 TB in North America and Europe doubles to $5,200 into Asia.
CacheFly focuses on steady throughput for podcasts and media files. Limitation: pricing is largely quote-based and its edge-compute features are narrower than platform CDNs.
| Workload | First pick | Also consider | Deciding threshold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bulk video, downloads, game patches | BlazingCDN | bunny.net, CacheFly, Fastly | Above 50 TB a month of cacheable objects |
| Static websites | Cloudflare | bunny.net, BlazingCDN | Under 46 TB, flat plans win on cost |
| Ecommerce and APIs | Fastly | Cloudflare, Akamai | Purge speed and edge logic matter more than $/TB |
| Security-sensitive workloads | Akamai | Cloudflare Enterprise, Imperva | WAF, bot and DDoS contract terms required |
| Single-cloud applications | Amazon CloudFront | Google Cloud CDN, Azure Front Door | Origin and identity live in one cloud |
Price per TB should decide the pick only when the workload is cacheable bulk delivery; otherwise features decide it.
A split-CDN design often beats any single vendor: keep a programmable CDN for HTML, APIs and security, and route large objects to a volume CDN behind DNS with a weighted split. BlazingCDN supports that second-CDN role, so the security stack stays where it is.
On published price lists checked August 2026, BlazingCDN lists 100 TB at $415, bunny.net Volume at $500 and CDN77 at $990. Amazon CloudFront pay-as-you-go transfer costs $6,965 for the same volume. Request fees, regional multipliers and commitments change the real bill, so price your own traffic mix before you treat any list price as final.
No, Cloudflare leads on platform breadth, not on every workload. Its security, Workers and R2 integration are hard to match, but Enterprise pricing is quote-based and widely reported to start near $5,000 a month. For bulk video or software delivery above 50 TB a month, volume CDNs usually deliver the same bytes for a fraction of that cost.
A pull-CDN migration for static assets typically takes days, not weeks: create the zone, mirror cache rules and headers, validate on a test hostname, then shift DNS gradually. Edge logic, signed URL schemes and WAF rules take longer to port. Running the new CDN as a weighted second provider first lets you compare P95 TTFB before a full cutover.
Test CDN providers on a slice of real production traffic, not synthetic pings. Compare P95 and P99 TTFB by region, cache hit ratio, cold-cache behavior, purge latency and large-file throughput over at least a week. Avoid annual commitments until the test ends, and check whether trial terms bill at the same rates as production.
At 2 PB a month, expect negotiated pricing everywhere. On BlazingCDN's published tiers, extending the $2.50 bracket gives about $5,815, an effective $2.91 per TB (estimate, as of November 2026), with Enterprise X quoting applying above 500 TB. Amazon CloudFront pay-as-you-go transfer reaches roughly $64,000 before discounts, by this blog's estimate.
Pick your two finalists and send 10 to 20 percent of one heavy hostname to the challenger through weighted DNS for 14 days. Track P95 and P99 TTFB per region from real-user monitoring, cache hit ratio, origin egress and purge time, then multiply each provider's tier math by your actual monthly terabytes, including request fees. That spreadsheet, not a ranking, is what survives a finance review.
If your workload is bulk video, software or large files, BlazingCDN runs a 14-day testing period on real production traffic at $5 per TB with the monthly minimum waived; you can start a BlazingCDN testing period for your bake-off and set up the zone with an engineer in about an hour.