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Cloudflare Workers vs Fastly Compute

No leader: the top candidate Cloudflare Workers has only 0.14 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Cloudflare Workers63
Fastly Compute54
Score
vioscaleAI score
Cloudflare Workers63 / 100low · 14%
Fastly Compute54 / 100medium · 51%
Pricing
Free tier
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute✓
Model
Cloudflare Workersopen_source
Fastly Computecommercial
Price level
Cloudflare Workersfree
Fastly Computelow
Transparent
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute✓
Integrations
Count
Cloudflare Workers–
Fastly Compute5
Security
Disclosure policy
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute–
Gdpr
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute✓
Iso27001
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute–
Pci
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute–
Soc2
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute–
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Cloudflare Workers100
Fastly Compute–
Status page
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Cloudflare Workers–
Fastly Compute65
Github stars
Cloudflare Workers–
Fastly Compute226
Package downloads weekly
Cloudflare Workers–
Fastly Compute462,574
Activity
Commits last 30d
Cloudflare Workers–
Fastly Compute23
Release
Cadence days
Cloudflare Workers–
Fastly Compute6
History
Cloudflare Workers–
Fastly Compute20 items
License
Spdx
Cloudflare Workers–
Fastly ComputeApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Cloudflare Workers–
Fastly ComputeJavaScript
Market
Availability
Cloudflare WorkersAvailable worldwide · HQ US
Fastly ComputeAvailable worldwide
Content
Faq
Cloudflare Workers6 items
Fastly Compute6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for serverless & edge platforms. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Execution substrate
Cloudflare WorkersV8 isolate
Fastly ComputeWASM
Language / runtime breadth
Cloudflare WorkersJavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust
Fastly ComputeJavaScript, with WebAssembly runtime support
Reach
Runs at global edge PoPs
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute✓
Scale
Scale to zero
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute-
Performance
Cold-start profile
Cloudflare WorkersNone (isolate)
Fastly ComputeLow
Limits
Max execution duration
Cloudflare Workers-
Fastly Compute-
Integration
Event source breadth
Cloudflare WorkersHTTP requests, cron schedules, webhooks, message queues
Fastly Compute-
HTTP endpoint trigger
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute✓
Cron / scheduled invocations
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute-
State
Durable state / workflow primitive
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute-
Flexibility
Bring-your-own runtime / container
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute-
Deployment
Hosting
Cloudflare WorkersCloud only
Fastly ComputeCloud only
Ops
Built-in logs / metrics / tracing
Cloudflare Workers-
Fastly Compute✓
Extensibility
CLI + IaC / framework support
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Cloudflare Workers

A server runtime environment based on Cloudflare Workers' underlying code, designed for self-hosting applications built with JavaScript and WebAssembly. It provides web-platform standard APIs and functions as a programmable HTTP proxy.

Independently observed

Fastly Compute

Fastly Compute is a JavaScript runtime and SDK for building applications that run on Fastly's edge network. It includes privacy enablement solutions like MASQUE Relay and OHTTP Relay for anonymizing user traffic and protecting personally identifiable information.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Cloudflare Workers

from $20/moHybridFree tier

Free tier with per-request and per-CPU metering. General Cloudflare plans from free to $250/mo; Workers add-on services metered separately.

  • FreeFree
    • DNS
    • DDoS Protection
    • CDN
    • Universal SSL
    • WAF
    • +3 more
  • Pro$20/mo billed annually or $25/mo billed monthly
    • Fast DNS
    • Unmetered DDoS Protection
    • CDN
    • Universal SSL Certificate
    • Free Managed Ruleset
    • +7 more
  • Business$200/mo billed annually or $250/mo billed monthly
    • Fast DNS
    • Unmetered DDoS Protection
    • CDN
    • Universal SSL Certificate
    • Free Managed Ruleset
    • +8 more
  • ContractContact sales
as of verify ↗

Fastly Compute

HybridFree tier
  • FreeFree
  • Growth-
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Cloudflare Workers✗
Fastly Compute✓
macOS
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute✗
Windows
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute✗
Linux
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute✗
CLI
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Cloudflare Workers✗
Fastly Compute✓
Self-hosted
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fastly Compute✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Cloudflare Workers

Not documented yet.

Fastly Compute

5 total
  • GitHub Actions
  • Terraform
  • Datadog
  • Splunk
  • S3
Independently observed
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