4 categories · RankedFastly
Fastly is an edge cloud platform that delivers sites and apps, covering edge CDN, video delivery and security · fastly.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Cloudflare is first at 91%.
Cloudflare is first at 93%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cloudflare is first at 69%.
Why models recommend it
“Vendors like Fastly offer instant global purges (milliseconds)... Engineering-heavy teams requiring complex edge customization and real-time observability.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“If your B2B product is highly complex, data-heavy, or strictly developer-driven, Fastly is the strongest contender.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · alternative
“Excellent if your B2B app involves heavy dynamic content... Slightly more expensive and complex than Cloudflare”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Look at lightweight, cloud-native platforms like Kong, Tyk, Gravitee, or Fastly/Cloudflare for edge routing”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“14 leading CDNs (including Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure, Amazon, and Fastly)... back-end TLS connections are vulnerable to security issues”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Outages can take down many high‑traffic sites simultaneously (e.g., Fastly, Akamai incidents). While not "inherently unsafe,"”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“Fastly offers immense power but requires advanced knowledge of its Varnish-based configuration language (VCL) or VSF.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“being cautious with enterprise CDNs like Akamai and Fastly due to higher costs and occasional major outages”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Fastly, over the 183 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 166 | 112 | View → | |
| 152 | 1 | View → | |
| 130 | 17 | View → | |
| 85 | 8 | View → | |
| 57 | 0 | View → | |
| 34 | 1 | View → | |
| 27 | 0 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Fastly →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Fastly's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- developers, security teams, and digital businesses that need high performance, strong security, and flexibility
- Price stated
- Pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Try Fastly free
- Customers named
- Yelp, Giphy, The Guardian, USA Today Co., JetBlue, Shutterstock, ITVX, Khan Academy
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 148 of the 183 answers that named Fastly and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
307 of the 410 domain citations in answers naming Fastly came from a third party's page. Twenty-two were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 927 | 1 | 2026-07-31 | WAF, Object storage | |
| Blog | 649 | 30 | 2026-09-28 | CDN, WAF | |
| Case study | 57 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 14 | 0 | 2025-12-15 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 13 | 2 | 2026-09-16 | Object storage | |
| News or press | 9 | 7 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Conference or event | 5 | 0 | 2025-02-14 | ||
| Comparison | 4 | 0 | 2026-05-21 | CDN | |
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 1 | 2026-09-16 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Fastlys 2025 sustainability report running decarbonization marathon blog
- 2026-09-28Press releases news or press
- 2026-09-28Comcast and fastlys new content deliver model powers highest quality experience news or press
- 2026-09-23Control ai bot scraping with fastly bot management blog
- 2026-09-23Datasheet blog
- 2026-09-22Building metered streams with mpp and fastly compute blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page fastly.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name WAF (48); 29 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.