Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 → 10 of 43
4 categories · RankedFastly
175Judge labels
5First choices
44Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
6% in CDN for enterprise buyers
Rank 5 of 49 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 61 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Fastly →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business17 of 44
0%40 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market5 of 49
4%61 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise4 of 45
6%64 labels
accepted challenger
In cdn · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Fastly for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Content delivery networks | Network and edge | 4% | 5 of 49 | 20% | 61 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| API security platforms | Security operations | 0% | 83 of 93 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12% | |
| Load balancers | Network and edge | 0% | 45 of 94 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by HAProxy at 29% | |
| Managed DNS | Network and edge | 0% | 61 of 78 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare DNS at 84% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Fastly held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CDN · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 3 → 5 of 44
Enterprise▲+7Since September 2026: 0% → 7%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 5 → 4 of 43
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDN | 2% | 4% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 5 of 49 |
| API security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 83 of 93, unchanged |
| Load balancers | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 45 of 94, unchanged |
| Managed DNS | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 61 of 78, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Fastly across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Fastly across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct30 labels2
Paraphrase25 labels1
Comparative42 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained17 labelsNone
Scale-constrained28 labels2
Negative33 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative175 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 8 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Fastly: *The "Developer-First" Choice.* Best-in-class real-time purging ... Ideal if your engineering team wants complete programmatic control.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CDN · scale prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend evaluating Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, and CloudFront first” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CDN · scale prompt · first choice
“Fastly if your site or app needs very fast purging, high configurability, real-time control, or developer-heavy workflows” GPT-5.4 mini · CDN · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“The Performance Specialist (e.g., Fastly): Best if you need extremely granular control over caching rules and instant purging” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CDN · scale prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Avoid enterprise ones (Akamai, Fastly) as they're pricier.” Grok 4.20 · CDN · budget prompt · hard negative
“If you use cloud-delivery platforms (like Cloudflare, Fastly, or Akamai) on their basic, entry-level, or pro tiers, do not assume your APIs are safe.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API security · negative prompt · soft negative
“Fastly’s VCL‑based cache logic is powerful but can be brittle; mis‑configuration can lead to cache‑invalidation issues or performance regressions.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CDN · negative prompt · soft negative
“good option for development-heavy teams ... but it is more specialized than Cloudflare for a broad mid-market B2B use case” Perplexity Sonar · CDN · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Fastly, over the 175 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fastly was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Fastly, over the 175 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fastly was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Fastly. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 148 of the 175 answers that named Fastly and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
blog.blazingcdn.com106
fastly.comYour site79
cdnetworks.com43
linkedin.com43
broadbandnow.com41
edgenext.com37
cloudflare.com31
atlantic.net30
myrasecurity.com28
g2.com27
386 of the 465 domain citations in answers naming Fastly came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
fastly.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Fastly takes 4% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 68%.ShowHide
Search and answers
fastly.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Fastly takes 4% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 68%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cdn”
8
Position for “cdns”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 18,100 a month (“fastly”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 950 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 107,961 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 21,224 · 548 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 15,362
- Paid Google search
- 5 searches its ads show for, about 95 clicks and $2,460 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 5 of 49 in CDN
Segment leader
68%
Cloudflare
- First choices
- 5 across its categories
- Named in
- 175 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 148 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on fastly.com
12,334
subdomains included
Content
1,680
counted in the table below
Documentation
5,413
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| 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.
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The company
Fastly is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Fastly is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Fastly’s edge cloud platform delivers faster, safer, and more scalable sites and apps to customers. Elevate your edge CDN, video delivery, security, and more.
- For
- developers, security teams, and digital businesses that need high performance, strong security, and flexibility
- Price stated
- Pricing fastly.com/blog/category/customers
- Free plan or trial
- Try Fastly free fastly.com
- Certifications
- Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Edge Distribution Platforms2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Edge Distribution Platforms2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Cloud WAAP
- Customers named
- YelpGiphyThe GuardianUSA Today Co.JetBlueShutterstockITVXKhan Academy
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, hosting
What Fastly's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: fastly.com, fastly.com/blog/category/security, fastly.com/blog/category/customers, fastly.com/documentation/guides/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Fastly is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Fastly, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.