Fastly Introduces DDoS Protection Add-On with Tiered Pricing, Enhancing Security Offerings for Customers
What happened
Between the Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025 captures of Fastly's pricing page, Pulse recorded 4 changes: DDoS Protection add-on introduced with tiered pricing from $1.30/10,000 requests, with mitigated attacks excluded from billing; Object Storage add-on introduced with storage pricing from $0.020/GB (first 5GB included) plus operations fees; Log Explorer & Insights feature added to Observability packages for proactive log data storage, inspection, and monitoring; AI Accelerator add-on introduced with tiered pricing: first 20,000 requests included, then $0.40-$0.28/1,000 requests based on volume. Pulse files it as a packaging change (new add-on, feature added) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 19, 2026) lists Basic at $1,500, Starter at $6,000 and Usage-Based at $0.12 per GB bandwidth + $500 per mutual TLS domain.
Fastly's previous recorded change was "Fastly Increases Monthly Credit to $100 and Clarifies Free Tier Usage Cap Across All Products" (Q3 2024). Fastly has been tracked since 2023-12-09.
In the same window Cloudflare and Aws also changed their Cybersecurity & Identity Management pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · Add-onAdded
BeforeNo DDoS Protection add-on
AfterDDoS Protection add-on
- — · Add-onAddedNo Object Storage add-onObject Storage add-on
- — · FeatureAdded
BeforeNot listed
AfterLog Explorer & Insights feature
- — · Add-onAddedNo AI Accelerator add-onAI Accelerator add-on
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Add-on | No DDoS Protection add-on | DDoS Protection add-on | Added |
| — | Add-on | No Object Storage add-on | Object Storage add-on | Added |
| — | Feature | Not listed | Log Explorer & Insights feature | Added |
| — | Add-on | No AI Accelerator add-on | AI Accelerator add-on | Added |
Values as written on Fastly's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Fastly's pricing page (fastly.com) from Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where DDoS Protection add-on now appears.
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Fastly, the last 90 days
Full history- Jul 27, 2026packagingFastly: Mutual TLS limit relabeled from 'mTLS' to 'domains' (quantities unchanged)
- Q3 2025packagingFastly Introduces Tiered Pricing for Image Optimizer Add-On, Starting Free for Up to 100k Requests
- Q1 2025packagingFastly Removes WebSockets 30-Day Free Trial from Pricing Page
- Q4 2024packagingFastly Introduces DDoS Protection Add-On with Tiered Pricing, Enhancing Security Offerings for Customers · this change
- Q3 2024packagingFastly Increases Monthly Credit to $100 and Clarifies Free Tier Usage Cap Across All Products
Across Cybersecurity & Identity Management in the same window
All Cybersecurity & Identity Management changes- CloudflareJan 11Cloudflare Zero Trust Services Introduces Comprehensive Pricing Restructure with Enhanced Feature Comparison and Free Network Flow Monitoring
- AwsJan 11Aws Kendra Expands Free Tier to Include GenAI Enterprise Edition, Offering 750 Hours for First 30 Days
- CloudflareJan 11Cloudflare Zero Trust Services Introduces Log Explorer Add-On with Usage-Based Pricing: Free for First 10 GB, $1/GB After
- CloudflareJan 11Cloudflare Network Services Sees 23% Increase in Daily Threats Blocked, Rising from 190 Billion to 234 Billion
- CloudflareJan 11Cloudflare Network Services Boosts Network Capacity by 21% to 388 Tbps Amid Global City Presence Reduction
Questions about this change
Did Fastly raise prices in January 2025?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new add-on, feature added.
What changed on Fastly's pricing page between Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025?
Add-on: No DDoS Protection add-on → DDoS Protection add-on, added; add-on: No Object Storage add-on → Object Storage add-on, added; feature: Not listed → Log Explorer & Insights feature, added; add-on: No AI Accelerator add-on → AI Accelerator add-on, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Fastly change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Fastly in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Fastly Increases Monthly Credit to $100 and Clarifies Free Tier Usage Cap Across All Products" in Q3 2024; Fastly has been tracked since 2023-12-09.