SAASPOCALYPSEcase · head-to-head
wedge comparison
subjects of investigation
fastly.comvszoom.us
which is stronger?
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clone time
8 weeks
contested8 weeks
zoom.us
unified communications & video conferencing platform
45/ 100
wedge scorefull report ↗
moat
how deep is each moat.
fastly.com · aggregate
6.5/10real moat
moat delta-1.0
zoom.us · aggregate
5.5/10real moat
9.0
capital-2.0 →
7.0
8.0
technical-3.0 →
5.0
3.0
network+2.0 →
5.0
7.0
switching-1.0 →
6.0
4.0
data-1.0 →
3.0
6.0
regulatory+1.0 →
7.0
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distribution—
3.9
floor
cost + time, side by side.
monthly floorfastly.com wins
fastly.com
$1 + usage
zoom.us
$47 + usage
delta −$46zoom.us costs ~47× more per month to keep alive.
time to clonezoom.us wins
fastly.com
∞
zoom.us
8 weeks
delta · finite vs. ∞zoom.us 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 · 11
integrations
shared · 11
serverless / edge platform
only zoom.us · 55
hipaa compliancellm inferencesocial loginspeech-to-textvideo conferencing
stack
what they're built on.
shared infra and the differentiating bits.
only fastly.com · 77
AWSbandwidthCloudflare WorkersCloudFrontFastlyGatsbyS3
shared infra · 44
CloudflarePostgresSupabaseVercel
only zoom.us · 66
Next.jsOpenAICloudflare R2ReactResendSentry
the verdict
ATTACK ZOOM.US FIRST
same comparison surface, two different walls. give the zoom.us attack a month. circle back to fastly only if you genuinely need what it does that the other doesn't.
the case
shallower moat
full reportcontested · 35
→ read the fastly.com report
full reportcontested · 45
→ read the zoom.us report
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