SAASPOCALYPSEcase · head-to-head
wedge comparison
subjects of investigation
fastly.comvssalesforce.com
which is stronger?
→vs←
clone time
3 months
fortress3 months
salesforce.com
enterprise CRM and agentic AI platform
28/ 100
wedge scorefull report ↗
moat
how deep is each moat.
fastly.com · aggregate
6.5/10real moat
moat delta+0.7
salesforce.com · aggregate
7.2/10deep moat
9.0
capital-1.0 →
8.0
8.0
technical-1.0 →
7.0
3.0
network+5.0 →
8.0
7.0
switching±0
7.0
4.0
data+2.0 →
6.0
6.0
regulatory±0
6.0
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distribution—
8.2
floor
cost + time, side by side.
monthly floorfastly.com wins
fastly.com
$1 + usage
salesforce.com
$47
delta −$46salesforce.com costs ~47× more per month to keep alive.
time to clonesalesforce.com wins
fastly.com
∞
salesforce.com
3 months
delta · finite vs. ∞salesforce.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 salesforce.com · 33
crm platformkanban / board viewsocial login
stack
what they're built on.
shared infra and the differentiating bits.
only fastly.com · 77
AWSbandwidthCloudflare WorkersCloudFrontFastlyGatsbyS3
shared infra · 44
CloudflarePostgresSupabaseVercel
only salesforce.com · 88
dnd-kitHubSpotNext.jsPipedriveCloudflare R2rechartsResendSalesforce
the verdict
ATTACK FASTLY FIRST
same comparison surface, two different walls. give the fastly attack a month. circle back to salesforce only if you genuinely need what it does that the other doesn't.
the case
a full tier easiersmaller monthly billmatched moat depth
full reportcontested · 35
→ read the fastly.com report
full reportfortress · 28
→ read the salesforce.com report
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