KeyCDN vs BlazingCDN: $3,600 a month where we charge $765
KeyCDN sells the way we do: delivery only, per gigabyte, published tiers, no request charges, no platform fee, month to month. That makes this a clean comparison, and the published tables do not come out close. At 200 TB a month we are $765. They are $3,600 in North America and Europe, $7,200 in Asia and Oceania, $11,200 in Africa and Latin America.
$5.00 down to $2.50 per terabyte, published in full on our pricing page. One rate across the US, Europe and Asia.
$0.04 down to $0.01 per GB in their cheapest zone, which is $40 down to $10 a terabyte. Double that in Asia and Oceania, and more again in Africa and Latin America.
Or open the full pricing table and read the rate yourself.
Which one actually fits your traffic
We would rather lose the click than lose a month of your team’s time. If you are shopping for a KeyCDN alternative, start here: the honest split, including the four reasons to buy them instead of us.
Pick BlazingCDN if
- You move more than about 600 GB a month, which is where our $25 minimum already beats their table.
- A meaningful share of your traffic lands outside North America and Europe, where their rate doubles.
- You want raw logs and image variants without a separate meter for each.
- Delivery is the line you are trying to shrink and you want one number for it.
Pick KeyCDN if
- Their network is larger: they publish 60+ data centers in 40+ countries across six continents, we publish 25+ locations.
- You move well under a terabyte a month. Their minimum charge is $4 a month and ours is $25.
- You want their push zone as a small hosting layer: FTP subusers, rsync transfer, directory listing and image hosting on top of the cache.
- Almost all of your traffic sits in one of their cheaper regions, and you would rather pay that region's rate than one blended rate across all of them.
Where your traffic lands decides their bill
Read this before the tables. KeyCDN prices the same terabyte three different ways depending on which continent it is delivered to, and the multiplier applies at every volume tier, not just the first one. If your audience sits entirely in North America and Europe this section barely matters. If it does not, it is the whole comparison.
BlazingCDN
One rate across the US, Europe and Asia, printed on the pricing page. Which tier you land on depends on how much you send, not on where it goes.
KeyCDN
Three zones. North America and Europe, then Asia and Oceania at double on every tier, then Africa and Latin America starting at two and a half times and widening as volume grows. Same four volume breakpoints, different rates.
The same 200 TB, priced in three places
200 TB a month, run through their published tiers: the first 10 TB at the first rate, the next 40 at the second, the next 50 at the third, and the remaining 100 at the fourth. Our number does not move, because our rate does not depend on the map.
Theirs is 4.7 times higher.
Theirs is 9.4 times higher.
Their most expensive zone. Our published coverage is the US, Europe and Asia, so ask us before you compare this one.
Their number moves with the map. Ours does not.
Their fourth tier is a real rate, not a teaser: above 100 TB in North America and Europe they are $0.01 per GB, which is $10 a terabyte and the closest anyone in this series gets to us. Calculated from their published table at 200 TB, checked 29 August 2026.
Side by side
Pricing model
Per terabyte delivered
Per GB delivered on marginal tiers, with a different starting rate for each of three regions
Published price
Yes. $5 down to $2.50 per TB in progressive tiers, the full table printed on the pricing page
Yes, the whole table. Three regions, four volume tiers, no request charges, and a $4 monthly minimum
Regional pricing
One rate across our regions
Three zones. Asia and Oceania are double North America and Europe at every tier; Africa and Latin America run 2.5 to 4 times
Heavy video and large files
What the network is built and priced for
Delivered on the same meter. Byte range requests, HTTP live streaming and large file support, with no separate video product to buy
Time to a number
Same day, by email
Published, with a calculator. Both of us pass this one
The rate is the easy part. Then come the small meters.
This is not our characterisation of their product. It is their own pricing page, a few sections below the traffic table.
“Log forwarding costs $1 per day.”
“Image Processing costs $0.40 per 1,000 operations.”
“Each image going through the Image Processing service will count as at least one operation.”
KeyCDN pricing page, under Log Forwarding and Image Processing. Checked 29 August 2026. Read it on their site
What it means in practice
Raw logs are $365 a year on top of traffic. Image processing is metered per operation, and their own wording is that each image counts as at least one, so a page that serves three variants of every photo is billing three operations per photo. Add $1 a month for every zone past the third, and push zone storage from $0.12 per GB a month.
Why ours works differently
A Prometheus endpoint, Grafana, Alertmanager and OpenTelemetry are on every account at no extra charge, and raw JSON logs for Graylog or ELK are a $50 a month add-on. Image variants come from a query string on your own domain and are cached like any other file, so they cost what the bytes cost and nothing per operation. We do not charge per zone.
Tell us your monthly terabytes. We send back the number.
No account needed to get a price. One email, one answer.
Run your own volume through it
50 TB a month
$4.30 a terabyte effective, one meter. The same 50 TB in their cheapest zone is $1,600, because all of it sits inside their two most expensive tiers.
200 TB a month
Where most video and software teams sit. $3.83 a terabyte effective. The same month is $3,600 in their cheapest zone and $7,200 in Asia.
1 PB a month
1,000 TB billed down through the tiers, $3.32 a terabyte effective. Theirs is $11,600 in North America and Europe, and that is the volume where their own table invites you to contact them.
Our pricing is progressive, like tax brackets: $5 on the first 5 TB, stepping down to $2.50 on traffic above 1,000 TB. KeyCDN tiers are marginal in exactly the same way, and the figures above use their published North America and Europe rates. Above 100 TB their table says to contact them for discounted volume pricing, so a large account may well pay less than list.
The three questions everyone asks next
Your network is bigger than ours
It is, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. They publish 60+ data centers in 40+ countries across six continents; we publish 25+ locations and 26 ms average latency across the US and EU. What decides it is where your viewers actually are, so test both on your own files. Our numbers are on Performance Metrics.
Do I have to move everything?
No. Most teams move the heavy traffic first, video, builds and downloads, and leave the rest where it is.
What about the extras I already use?
Keep them. If you rely on their push zones, FTP subusers or image hosting, those stay where they are. Split by workload: the extras stay, the terabytes move.
Six places where we win
Not opinions. Each of these is a line item you can check on an invoice or in a config screen.
One rate, not three zones
Their table prices the same terabyte at $0.04, $0.08 or $0.10 per GB depending on the continent, and the gap holds or widens at every tier. At 200 TB that is $3,600, $7,200 or $11,200. Ours is $765 inside the regions we publish.
Raw logs are not a subscription
Their own pricing page puts log forwarding at $1 per day, which is $365 a year on top of traffic. Ours are JSON for Graylog or ELK, plus a Prometheus endpoint, Grafana, Alertmanager and OpenTelemetry, on every account at no extra charge.
Image variants cost what the bytes cost
They meter image processing at $0.40 per 1,000 operations and say each image counts as at least one. Ours come from a query string on your own domain and are cached like any other file, with nothing charged per operation.
Storage at $0.02, not $0.12
Push zone storage on their side starts at $0.12 per GB a month charged daily, stepping to $0.08 and then $0.04. Our permanent cache is $0.02 per GB a month with the first 500 GB included.
The rate keeps falling past 100 TB
In North America and Europe their published ladder ends at $0.01 per GB above 100 TB, which is $10 a terabyte, and past that the table says to contact them. Ours keeps stepping down on its own to $3.50, then $3.00, then $2.50 a terabyte, with nothing to re-sign.
Speed and shape you control
A download speed cap per account, per domain or per URL, rate matched delivery, TTL up to 365 days with a separate TTL per HTTP status code, and cache warm-up through the API before a release.
Keep it. Move the heavy traffic to us.
You do not have to leave. Keep your push zones and any zone you have already tuned exactly where they are, and point the terabytes that actually cost money at a network that charges one rate for them.
- One pull zone, pointed at the origin you already use
- From $5 down to $2.50 per TB, published, no negotiation to see it
- Roll back by changing one CNAME if you do not like the result
Get your rate
Four fields. We reply with a written price for your volume, usually the same day.
We use this only to price your traffic and reply to you. See our privacy policy.
What the plan costs before your traffic is counted
We both sell a rate rather than a tier. The difference shows up in what sits underneath the rate.
Where you start
$5 per TB delivered, pay as you go, with a $25 monthly minimum that covers your first 5 TB
$0.04 per GB in North America and Europe, with a $4 monthly minimum and a $49 minimum payment
Mid tier
The same tier table. Your rate steps down as volume grows, with nothing to re-sign
$0.03 then $0.02 per GB as volume grows, and double or two and a half times that outside North America and Europe
The tier that carries heavy traffic
$2.50 per TB on the top tier, and no platform fee at any volume
$0.01 per GB above 100 TB in North America and Europe, which is $10 a terabyte. Past that their table says to contact them
Commitment
None. Monthly, stop whenever you like
None. Month to month, no contract
What gets billed
Delivered traffic only. Pull cache is never billed. The optional permanent cache on Video CDN is $0.02 per GB a month after the first 500 GB
Traffic, plus log forwarding at $1 a day, image processing at $0.40 per 1,000 operations, push zone storage from $0.12 per GB a month, and $1 a month per zone past the third
KeyCDN figures are their published rates from their pricing page, checked 29 August 2026. Both sides here are list prices; their table invites a conversation above 100 TB and so do we.
CDN feature by feature
Static files, downloads, images and APIs. Everything on our side is taken from our product documentation, and we have left in the rows where they are ahead and the rows where we are level.
Routing
Anycast routing with built in failover. 50+ signals weighed per request, file popularity tracked per region, routes re-evaluated in real time
Anycast across a network they publish as 60+ data centers in 40+ countries, non-federated, with at least 40 Gbps uplinks per edge server
Cache control
TTL up to 365 days, a separate TTL per HTTP status code, minimum requests to cache from 1 to 10, inherit or ignore origin headers
Cache-Control handling, query string handling, strip cookies and header control, set per zone
Per-path rules
Locations: a rule set matched to an HTTP route, so different parts of one resource get different delivery settings. Extension proxying, URL parameter truncation, HLS and DASH handling and image processing, all per path
Configured per zone rather than per route: header control, query strings, strip cookies, custom robots.txt and zone aliases
Purge
By path, in bulk, or total purge in one action. Plus cache warm-up through the API before a release
Instant Purge, included on every account
Origin Shield
Included. Automatic, or pinned to a region you choose
Origin Shield, included on every account. Level with us on this row
Compression
gzip, Brotli and zstd. At the edge or at origin, with a separate cache per encoding
Brotli and Gzip
Delivery speed control
A download speed cap you set per account, per domain or per URL, plus rate matched delivery so one big file does not take the whole pipe. Request intensity limits per client or subnet on top of that
Byte range requests and large file delivery. No delivery speed cap appears on their published feature list
Signed URLs
Validity window, signature bound to a client IP, a limit of 1 to 5 unique IPs per link, two secrets for rotation, partial path signing and URL encryption
Secure Token authentication, with zone referrer rules alongside it
Country and IP lists
Country allowlist or blocklist, IP allowlist or blocklist with mask support, referrer allow and deny lists and cookie checks. Set per resource, with no security plan to buy
Access Rules, Block Bad Bots and zone referrer restrictions
Security stack
Their round
Access control only, as in the two rows above. No WAF, no DDoS scrubbing, no bot management, and we do not claim any
DDoS protection included on every account, plus Block Bad Bots and two-factor authentication on the account itself. More than we offer, and we do not pretend otherwise
Certificates
Let’s Encrypt at no extra charge, renewed automatically. Upload your own, in bulk, auto-assigned to matching domains
Let’s Encrypt and custom TLS at no additional cost, with OCSP stapling
Origins and import
HTTP(S), S3, Swift, Wasabi and S3 compatible buckets, FTP, SFTP, rclone and rsync. Pull or push, pre-import or lazy, with a callback on the result
Pull zones, and push zones with FTP(S) upload, FTP subusers, rsync transfer, directory listing and image hosting
Image processing
One file at origin, every variant from a query string on your own domain. Variants are cached like any other file and cost nothing extra
Real time transforms from query parameters, billed at $0.40 per 1,000 operations, and each image counts as at least one operation
Logs and metrics
A Prometheus endpoint, Grafana, Alertmanager and OpenTelemetry on every account. Raw JSON logs for Graylog or ELK as a $50 a month add-on
Detailed reports in the dashboard. Raw logs in real time through syslog cost $1 per day
Running it from an agent
One MCP server, 52 typed tools: pull zones, cache and purge, metrics, domains and certificates, Cloud Storage and Video CDN. Read-only by default, with cache purge and warm-up; create and update are opt-in; deletes are a second opt-in limited to custom domains and Video CDN resources, and deleting pull zones, buckets or accounts is not implemented at all. Public on npm as @blazingcdn/mcp
A complete RESTful API and a dashboard. No MCP server published on npm or their GitHub as of 29 August 2026
Our column is taken from our own product documentation. The KeyCDN column is taken from their homepage, features, network and pricing pages, checked 29 August 2026.
Splitting the traffic takes an afternoon
Create a pull zone
Point it at the same origin your KeyCDN pull zone already uses. Nothing changes on your side.
Move the heavy paths
Video segments, installers, patches, archives. The paths that generate the terabytes on your invoice.
Compare one invoice
One billing cycle is enough to see the difference. If it is not better, change the CNAME back.
Comparing more than one? See also Bunny CDN pricing, CDN77 pricing and Cloudflare pricing, or start from our CDN pricing comparison.