Fastly
Fastly scores 46/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a free entry path exists.
Fastly pricing
Sign up, get an API key, pay per call
Some plans are self-serve, others route to sales — agents can transact on the lower tiers.
How Fastly scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing visibility
12 / 15
Self-serve checkout
15 / 15
Public API + docs
0 / 20
Usage-based / metered pricing
0 / 20
Free entry path
7 / 7
No sales call required
7 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
5 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
46 / 100
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Can create account
Can enter payment method
Can upgrade plan
Can buy more usage
Can cancel online
Payment methods
Human approval recommended
Pricing transparency
partial
Purchase motion
self_serve
Demo required
Quote required
Annual commit required
Unknown
Auto-renewal mentioned
Unknown
Cancellation policy visible
Unknown
Refund policy visible
Unknown
Invoice payment available
Unknown
Purchase orders supported
Unknown
MSA required
Unknown
DPA available
Unknown
Security review required
Unknown
Positioning & ecosystem
“The future of business starts with developers”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Fastly?
Discover price
Select a plan
Pay per task
Avoid a sales call
API docs without auth
Estimate cost upfront
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-06. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- Every advertised tier is self-serve; no tier requires scheduling a call.
- A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
- No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
- API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
- The pricing URL did not render numeric tier data on the scoring date — possibly a router or sales-led landing page.
How Fastly could lift its score
Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.
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| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 0 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://www.fastly.com/documentation/developers/ |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
| per_unit_classification | null |
| usage_headline_present | false |
| custom_tier_present | true |
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/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Content Delivery Network CDN
Pricing from startup to scale up — How Fastly helps developers build fast, secure, and highly personalized apps.
0
Yes
Sales-led
0 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Pay-as-you-go API
Free tier (Free)
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.ai-pricing.json
agents.txt
llms.txt
sitemap.xml
MCP Server Card
Agent Skills
x402 / MPP
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