SAASPOCALYPSEcase · head-to-head
wedge comparison
subjects of investigation
fastly.comvshubspot.com
which is stronger?
→vs←
clone time
10–16 weeks
contested10–16 weeks
hubspot.com
all-in-one CRM, marketing & sales platform
39/ 100
wedge scorefull report ↗
moat
how deep is each moat.
fastly.com · aggregate
6.5/10real moat
moat delta-0.4
hubspot.com · aggregate
6.1/10real moat
9.0
capital-3.0 →
6.0
8.0
technical-3.0 →
5.0
3.0
network+4.0 →
7.0
7.0
switching-1.0 →
6.0
4.0
data±0
4.0
6.0
regulatory-3.0 →
3.0
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distribution—
9.3
floor
cost + time, side by side.
monthly floorfastly.com wins
fastly.com
$1 + usage
hubspot.com
$47 + usage
delta −$46hubspot.com costs ~47× more per month to keep alive.
time to clonehubspot.com wins
fastly.com
∞
hubspot.com
10–16 weeks
delta · finite vs. ∞hubspot.com is buildable; fastly.com effectively isn't.
overlap
where they fight, where they don't.
features only one ships, plus the small middle they share.
only fastly.com · 00
fastly.com is a strict subset of the shared surface.
shared · 22
serverless / edge platformintegrations
only hubspot.com · 55
audit login-app chatkanban / board viewllm inferencesocial login
stack
what they're built on.
shared infra and the differentiating bits.
only fastly.com · 77
AWSbandwidthCloudflare WorkersCloudFrontFastlyGatsbyS3
shared infra · 44
CloudflarePostgresSupabaseVercel
only hubspot.com · 88
dnd-kitGmail APIHubSpotNext.jsCloudflare R2ReactResendTrigger.dev
the verdict
TOO CLOSE TO CALL
fastly and hubspot land on the same moat depth, sit in the same tier, and present the same wall. either is a defensible angle of attack — the choice is taste, not difficulty.
the read
matched tiermatched wedge scoreland on the same moat depth
full reportcontested · 35
→ read the fastly.com report
full reportcontested · 39
→ read the hubspot.com report
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