SAASPOCALYPSEcase · head-to-head
wedge comparison
subjects of investigation
cloudflare.comvsfastly.com
which is stronger?
clone time
∞
fortress∞
cloudflare.com
connectivity cloud: CDN, security, networking, edge compute
9/ 100
wedge scorefull report ↗
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moat
how deep is each moat.
cloudflare.com · aggregate
9.1/10deep moat
moat delta-2.6
fastly.com · aggregate
6.5/10real moat
10.0
capital-1.0 →
9.0
10.0
technical-2.0 →
8.0
8.0
network-5.0 →
3.0
8.0
switching-1.0 →
7.0
10.0
data-6.0 →
4.0
8.0
regulatory-2.0 →
6.0
9.5
distribution—
—
floor
cost + time, side by side.
monthly floortie
cloudflare.com
usage-based
fastly.com
$1 + usage
monthly floor is roughly the same on both sides.
time to clonetie
cloudflare.com
∞
fastly.com
∞
neither is buildable as a clone — the fight here is the moat, not the build.
overlap
where they fight, where they don't.
features only one ships, plus the small middle they share.
only cloudflare.com · 11
pci dss level 1
shared · 11
serverless / edge platform
only fastly.com · 11
integrations
stack
what they're built on.
shared infra and the differentiating bits.
only cloudflare.com · 11
Cloudflare R2
shared infra · 33
CloudflareCloudflare WorkersS3
only fastly.com · 88
AWSbandwidthCloudFrontFastlyGatsbyPostgresSupabaseVercel
the verdict
ATTACK FASTLY FIRST
same comparison surface, two different walls. give the fastly attack a month. circle back to cloudflare only if you genuinely need what it does that the other doesn't.
the case
a full tier easiershallower moat
full reportfortress · 9
→ read the cloudflare.com report
full reportcontested · 35
→ read the fastly.com report
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