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Cloudflare vs Fastly

Cloudflare scores higher on the AgentReady, 98/100 against 60/100. They differ on 12 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Cloudflare. One platform for your apps, agents, and workforce.

Fastly. Fastly is an edge cloud platform company that helps businesses build, secure, and deliver fast, scalable sites and apps.

Where Cloudflare is ahead

Cloudflare passes clear product positioning and llms-full.txt / full agent docs, and Fastly does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds operate: agent compatibility verified. Fastly misses it.

Where Fastly is ahead

Fastly passes search discoverable and public docs discoverable, and Cloudflare does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: limits / constraints documented. Cloudflare misses it.

And on adopt, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, official typescript sdk and official python sdk. Cloudflare misses those.

Finally, on operate, canonical workflow succeeds and observable execution. Cloudflare misses those.

What neither does

Both fail openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover. Cloudflare leads 100 to 80. Cloudflare misses search discoverable, public docs discoverable; Fastly misses clear product positioning, llms-full.txt / full agent docs.

Understand. Cloudflare leads 92 to 46. Cloudflare misses openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Fastly misses openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented.

Adopt. Cloudflare leads 100 to 80. Cloudflare misses no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, official typescript sdk, official python sdk; Fastly misses no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation.

Operate is whether an agent can run against it in production and recover when a call fails. Cloudflare leads 100 to 35. Cloudflare misses canonical workflow succeeds, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, observable execution; Fastly misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Cloudflare starts at $0/mo and has a free tier. Fastly does not publish one and has a free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Fastly clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Cloudflare and Fastly. Alternatives to each: Cloudflare, Fastly.

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