Fastly vs Gcore Comparison

Why choose Fastly

• Higher Customization score (9/10 vs 7/10)
• Higher Integration score (8/10 vs 7/10)

Why choose Gcore

• Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 4/10)
• Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 4/10)
• Includes Dedicated Servers, which Fastly lacks
• Includes Managed Kubernetes, which Fastly lacks

Fastly

Pros

• Instant Purge clears cached content worldwide in about 150 ms, which suits news and e-commerce sites that change content often.
• VCL and WebAssembly-based Compute give engineers fine control over edge logic per request.
• Real-time log streaming to more than 30 endpoints, including Datadog, Splunk, and BigQuery, is included.
• The Next-Gen WAF, from the Signal Sciences acquisition, is known for low false-positive rates (a vendor claim reported by Technologymatch).
• Self-serve sign-up includes free monthly allowances for delivery, compute, storage, and TLS.

Cons

• Reviewers describe VCL as hard to learn and say the dashboard is complex for beginners.
• Region-based bandwidth rates make monthly bills hard to predict, especially for smaller companies.
• About 76 POPs, far fewer than Cloudflare or Akamai, with no presence in mainland China, Russia, or the CIS region.
• Some PeerSpot reviewers report slow support responses.
• Bot management and the full security suites are sold by sales quote only.

Gcore

Pros

• The CDN includes 1 TB of traffic and 1 billion requests free each month, and traffic after that starts at 0.01 EUR per GB.
• DDoS protection pricing does not depend on attack size, and mitigation is not metered on any plan.
• The managed Kubernetes control plane is free with high availability, so you pay only for the nodes.
• A large edge footprint, reported at about 210 PoPs and 200 Tbps of capacity, suits latency-sensitive workloads such as gaming and streaming.
• Headquarters in Luxembourg is an advantage for buyers who prefer an EU-based provider.

Cons

• Trustpilot scores are around 2.5 out of 5, with complaints about recurring billing, refunds, and slow support.
• There is no public price list for VMs and bare metal; prices are only available through the calculator.
• The Terraform v2 provider is still in alpha and Gcore says it is not ready for production.
• The product range is very broad, which can make it harder for small teams to understand how pricing works.