Fastly Websockets

Name: Fastly Websockets
Brand: Fastly

Leader

Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables the best of the web to thrive, and helps you deliver better online experiences.

Est 2011|Valuation $2.9B|Raised $686.4M

LinkedIn 72K|Website|Web traffic 268K|FTEs 1,140|HQ San Francisco, California, US

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

- Fastly vs Cloudflare: Cloudflare generally emphasizes self-serve simplicity and visible developer pricing and documentation; Fastly emphasizes configurability and integration for teams already on its platform. Community discussions often characterize Fastly as more costly in some scenarios. - Fastly vs Akamai: Akamai is positioned for large enterprise customers and can involve contract-based pricing and services; enterprise suitability and cost depend on specific requirements and negotiated terms. - Specialist realtime vendors (Ably/Pusher/PubNub): Specialist vendors can offer higher-level messaging semantics (presence, history, ordering guarantees), richer SDK ecosystems, and productized features that reduce application-level engineering effort; edge platforms may be preferable when consolidation with CDN/edge services is the primary objective.

	Fastly WebSockets / Fanout	Cloudflare Workers + WebSockets (Durable Objects)	Akamai (edge delivery + custom realtime)
Starting Price	Sales-led for WebSockets/Fanout in many cases; pricing contact required	Workers pricing is published; WebSockets usage supported; Durable Objects pricing published	Typically sales-led / contract-based
Suitable For	Teams that require edge-based WebSocket management integrated with Fastly delivery and security services	Development teams building applications on Cloudflare Workers with stateful coordination via Durable Objects	Large enterprises standardized on Akamai requiring global delivery and bespoke real-time architectures
Key Strength	Edge termination with protocol translation and integration into Fastly’s edge network	Developer experience in the Workers ecosystem; published pricing for many features	Large global delivery footprint and enterprise services portfolio
Key Weakness	Documented incompatibilities with shielding and Next‑Gen WAF; pricing transparency can be limited; some mTLS/WebSocket limitations reported	Durable Objects patterns may be required to scale state; pricing can be complex at high scale	Less productized real-time messaging capabilities compared with specialist providers

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Fastly vs Cloudflare: Cloudflare generally emphasizes self-serve simplicity and visible developer pricing and documentation; Fastly emphasizes configurability and integration for teams already on its platform. Community discussions often characterize Fastly as more costly in some scenarios.
Fastly vs Akamai: Akamai is positioned for large enterprise customers and can involve contract-based pricing and services; enterprise suitability and cost depend on specific requirements and negotiated terms.
Specialist realtime vendors (Ably/Pusher/PubNub): Specialist vendors can offer higher-level messaging semantics (presence, history, ordering guarantees), richer SDK ecosystems, and productized features that reduce application-level engineering effort; edge platforms may be preferable when consolidation with CDN/edge services is the primary objective.

	Fastly WebSockets / Fanout	Cloudflare Workers + WebSockets (Durable Objects)	Akamai (edge delivery + custom realtime)
Starting Price	Sales-led for WebSockets/Fanout in many cases; pricing contact required	Workers pricing is published; WebSockets usage supported; Durable Objects pricing published	Typically sales-led / contract-based
Suitable For	Teams that require edge-based WebSocket management integrated with Fastly delivery and security services	Development teams building applications on Cloudflare Workers with stateful coordination via Durable Objects	Large enterprises standardized on Akamai requiring global delivery and bespoke real-time architectures
Key Strength	Edge termination with protocol translation and integration into Fastly’s edge network	Developer experience in the Workers ecosystem; published pricing for many features	Large global delivery footprint and enterprise services portfolio
Key Weakness	Documented incompatibilities with shielding and Next‑Gen WAF; pricing transparency can be limited; some mTLS/WebSocket limitations reported	Durable Objects patterns may be required to scale state; pricing can be complex at high scale	Less productized real-time messaging capabilities compared with specialist providers

Fastly Websockets

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

02Market Map

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

02Market Map