CacheFly

CacheFly is a content delivery network that has been run as a single-product business since 2002. The vendor says it pioneered an Anycast CDN and that it sells no cloud compute or DNS. Its pitch is aimed at traffic that arrives in bursts: streaming premieres, game patch days and ad breaks on connected TV.

Traffic is served from points of presence the vendor lists by region on its network map, with 17 locations in North America, 20 in Latin America and 21 in Europe. A customer can start with a free developer account or buy one of three feature tiers, then add a bandwidth commitment and a support plan as separate decisions. The vendor also suggests testing it as a second lane next to an existing CDN through weighted DNS, so no migration is needed to try it.

• Three separate purchase levers. Pricing splits into a feature tier (Adoption, Production, Governance), a bandwidth commitment and a support plan. The vendor says you choose each independently, so a small team can buy the cheapest tier and add only the support level it needs.
• EdgeControl. EdgeControl runs JavaScript logic at the edge for headers, redirects, routing and custom authentication. A sandbox comes with the Adoption tier, the full version with Production, and the vendor bills it by number of invocations.
• Dedicated Shield. This add-on gives a customer its own cache tier so content stays warm without competing for shared cache space. The vendor describes it as protection against origin overload on launch days. Pricing is by contact with sales.
• Private CDN nodes. For workloads that need network-level isolation, CacheFly offers dedicated capacity with no shared neighbours, operated by the vendor end to end. The Governance tier mentions private nodes and private network interconnects as available options.
• API and Terraform provider. Every tier from Adoption upward lists full API access and a Terraform provider, so cache purges and configuration can be scripted. Production adds tag-based and bulk purge, and Governance adds audit logs and role-based access.
• Real-time log search. An optional add-on lets teams search and stream edge logs as they arrive instead of waiting for batch exports. The vendor lists it at $695 per month on any tier, and Production already includes log shipping.
• Engineer-staffed support. Email tickets on every tier are answered by CDN engineers, according to the vendor. Paid Silver, Gold and Platinum plans then set response windows for severity 0 incidents, from same day down to thirty minutes.

• A streaming service planning a season premiere. The team adds CacheFly as a weighted DNS lane beside its current CDN, ramps up to a small share of live viewers, compares stalls and throughput, and adds Dedicated Shield before the premiere night to protect origin servers.
• A game studio shipping a large day-one patch. A studio with a patch that thousands of players fetch at midnight can put the download host behind CacheFly, size a bandwidth commitment with a sales rep around the launch peak, and keep a Gold plan for 2am incidents.
• A developer proving the CDN on a side project. A developer who wants to test before committing can open the free account (100 GB, one domain), later move to Adoption at $299 per month with three domains and five origins, and manage everything through the API and Terraform.

The vendor offers two entry points. A free developer account covers 100 GB and one domain and is created online. The Adoption tier at $299 per month is described as self-serve and live in minutes. For a trial against an existing provider, the vendor describes a five-step evaluation: add a DNS weight for CacheFly, start with 5 to 10 percent of live traffic, compare metrics side by side, simulate a peak event, then decide.

It says the connection takes under an hour and that most customers run the comparison for around 30 days. Production and Governance tiers involve a conversation with a rep because bandwidth commitments are sized individually.

Founded in 2002 and operated as CacheNetworks, LLC, an Illinois company. Business and Enterprise are sold as monthly bundles of traffic with the overage billed at the bundle rate.

The terms let it raise fees by up to eight percent a year on thirty days' notice. HTTP/3 and IPv6 are missing from the Developer account, and the page shows two different free allowances, so confirm which applies.

The CDN providers list places CacheFly 5 of 12: Gcore sits directly above it and imgix directly below. No numeric score is attached; established products follow the challengers in their ranked order.

Home market: the United States, one of 8 North America bases among the 12 products here.

Pricing as recorded: Developer account plus Business and Enterprise bundles, published.

Feature tiers on the pricing page: Adoption $299 per month, Production $1,499 per month, Governance $3,499 per month (sold through sales). Each tier includes 10 TB of monthly traffic and email support from CDN engineers. Larger bandwidth is a separate commitment sized by a rep, and no per-TB rate is published. Support plans: Silver $995 per month and Gold $2,495 per month, with Platinum on request; the separate support page prints $5,995 for Platinum. Add-ons: real-time log search $695 per month, EdgeControl by invocation, Dedicated Shield and private nodes by quote. A free developer account is available. Currency is not labelled on the page; the figures use a dollar sign.

Read from cachefly.com when Best CDN Providers in 2026 was last reviewed (5 November 2026).

Business covers fifty domains and unlimited users.

The pricing page lists SSO, role-based access, audit logs and compliance packs on the Governance tier, plus optional WAF and DDoS protection from Production upward. The footer links a GDPR page and a data processing agreement.

Named audit certifications such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 are not stated on the pages read. Hosting follows the points of presence on the network map, and a data export process is not stated on the vendor's pages.

Integrations the vendor names (7):

• Terraform provider
• REST API
• Log shipping and real-time log search
• EdgeControl (JavaScript at the edge)
• Web application firewall add-on
• Weighted DNS alongside another CDN
• Slack channel and video conference (Platinum support)

These are the nearest neighbours of CacheFly in the same list, picked on shared traits and price model.

• KeyCDN (#2 of 12): Swiss pay-per-gigabyte CDN with unlimited requests and three zones.
• CDN77 (#3 of 12): Flat 250 TB plan from a company run out of London and Prague.
• Azure Front Door (#11 of 12): Microsoft CDN and load balancer with an hourly base fee.
• Google Cloud CDN (#12 of 12): Google edge cache attached to a cloud load balancer. Best for: Teams whose workloads already sit behind Google Cloud load balancers. (United States)

Read from the vendor’s own pages on 5 November 2026.

• cachefly.com/pricing: Feature tiers, included 10 TB, add-ons, free account, FAQ
• cachefly.com: Positioning, evaluation steps, vendor performance claims, industries
• cachefly.com/security: Support plan table, response times, escalation, billing terms
• cachefly.com/network-map: Points of presence by region, Anycast history

The same four questions are asked of every CDN providers product: time to value, real cost, the way out and the intended buyer. The result for CacheFly: #5, out of 12 ranked. Read the editorial process for the method and where paid visibility fits in.