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Comparison

Akamai EdgeWorkers vs Fastly Compute

Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.

Comparison space

Updated

Platform

Hosting model
Managed
Managed
Services
CDN
CDN
Edge Functions
Edge Functions
Key-Value Store
Key-Value Store
Object Storage
Object Storage
Workloads
APIs
APIs
Edge Request Processing
Edge Request Processing
Web Applications
Web Applications
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Compute Autoscaling
Deployment Rollbacks
Deployment Rollbacks
Preview Environments
Preview Environments
Scale to Zero
Scale to Zero

Development & Execution

Runtimes
V8 Isolates
V8 Isolates
WebAssembly / WASI
WebAssembly / WASI
Languages
C
C
C++
C++
Go
Go
JavaScript
JavaScript
Rust
Rust
Swift
Swift
TypeScript
TypeScript
Zig
Zig
Triggers
Edge Events
Edge Events
HTTP Requests
HTTP Requests

Pricing

Billing basis
Resource based EdgeWorkers Resource Tiers and Billing
Resource based Fastly Compute Usage
Requests / executions
  • Invoked events — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
  • Compute requests — $0.50 · per 1 million requests
Compute
  • Basic Compute — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
  • Dynamic Compute — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
  • Compute requests — $0.50 · per 1 million requests
  • Compute vCPU milliseconds — $0.05 · per 1 million vCPU milliseconds
Free entry / commitment
Existing Akamai customers can add a free Evaluation tier without a time limit; other users can request an EdgeWorkers free trial.
Recurring free allowances

Infrastructure & Availability

Execution & locality
  • Execution: Edge
  • Scope: Global
  • Execution: Edge
  • Scope: Global
Provider / network
  • Own Network
  • Own Network
Availability footprint
  • 4,400+ PoPs
  • 164 PoPs

Resource & Execution Limits

CPU / execution time
Unknown
50 ms Per invocation
Memory
Unknown
128 MB Per instance
Code / package size
512 KB compressed / 1 MB uncompressed Per EdgeWorker
100 MB Per package
Request / response size
16,384 characters respondWith()
Unknown

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Access Control
Group and role permissions EdgeWorker IDs
Account roles and scoped API tokens Fastly account
Single Sign-On
Unknown
SAML 2.0 Enforcement available; superusers can bypass
Encryption & secrets
Secrets Management
Unknown
Write-only Compute Secret Store, encrypted at rest and in transit Compute
Assurances & programs
ISO Certifications
ISO/IEC 27001, 27017 & 27018 EdgeWorkers on Secure CDN with Enhanced TLS
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Fastly platform
PCI DSS
Level 1 Secure CDN with Enhanced TLS; EdgeKV excluded
Unknown
SOC Reports
Unknown
SOC 2 Type II Fastly platform