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title: "Pricing"
description: "Start free with no card required. Free DNS and bot protection with Edge Shield, free CDN, Storage, and Assist tiers, and per-resource compute pricing billed by the hour. Zero egress fees, no surprise bills."
url: https://edge.network/pricing/
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# Pricing

Pricing

# Start free. Pay for what you run.

Sign up free with no card. DNS and Shield are free forever, CDN, Storage, and
Assist have free tiers, and compute is priced per resource — billed hourly from
a prepaid balance, so a surprise bill is impossible by design.

[Create Free Account](https://edge.network/account/access/new) No card required to sign up

## Free to Start

Real infrastructure, free. Friction only appears where abuse risk lives — and it's
a card authorization, never a charge.

### DNS

Free

Verified email — no card

Fast anycast DNS, free for everyone. Point your nameservers at Edge and manage your domains from one place.

- Up to 50 zones
- Unlimited records
- 1M queries/month per zone included
- Global anycast network
- DNSSEC & low-latency resolution

[Add your first zone](https://edge.network/account/access/new)

### CDN

Free tier

Card on file — only charged for what you buy

Evaluate the CDN with a real workload. Hard-capped until you add a card — then pay-as-you-go covers past the free tier at $0.25 per million requests.

- 3 deployments
- 500k requests/month
- Zero egress fees
- Image optimization
- Custom domains with SSL

[Create a deployment](https://edge.network/account/access/new)

### Storage

Free tier

Card on file — only charged for what you buy

S3-compatible object storage on NVMe. Free to 5 GB, then $0.015/GB-month pay-as-you-go with a card on file — never billed without one.

- 2 buckets
- 5 GB storage
- S3-compatible API
- No egress fees
- All NVMe

[Create a bucket](https://edge.network/account/access/new)

### Shield

Free forever

Verified email — no card

Bot protection without puzzles. Invisible verification, a 1–100 humanity score, and verified AI-agent identification — free for everyone.

- Unlimited widgets
- Unlimited verifications
- Humanity score on every check
- Verified agent identification
- No cookies, no tracking

[Create a widget](https://edge.network/account/access/new)

### Assist

Free tier

Verified email — no card

AI answers for your website, grounded in your own content. One line of code, 250 answered questions a month free — then $0.01 per question with pay-as-you-go.

- 250 answered questions/month
- Unlimited instant search
- Citations on every answer
- Human handoff & lead capture
- Answer cache & overrides

[Add your site](https://edge.network/account/access/new)

Calculators

## What Would It Cost?

Pick a service and slide in your numbers. These are the exact rates you pay —
billed from a prepaid balance, with no egress fees and no fine print.

CDN Compute Storage DNS Shield Assist

### Build your VM

vCPU 2 cores

Memory 4 GB

NVMe Disk 80 GB

Estimated cost

$ 15.44 /mo

$ 0.0212 /hour · billed hourly, stop any time

[Deploy](https://edge.network/account/access/new)

#### Starter

$9.62 /mo

Small sites & side projects

1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM · 40 GB NVMe

Same per-resource rates — nothing hidden in the bundle

#### Standard

$19.24 /mo

Apps & databases

2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB NVMe

Same per-resource rates — nothing hidden in the bundle

#### Per-resource rates

vCPU

$0.004/hr

~$2.92/mo

RAM

$0.00256/GiB-hr

~$1.87/mo

Disk

$0.074/GiB-mo

NVMe

#### $5 starter credit

Verify your email, add a card (verified, not charged), and claim a one-time
$5 credit to evaluate compute — enough to run a Starter VM for over two weeks.
Unused credit expires 30 days after claiming.

### Estimate your CDN bill

Requests per month 2 M
Bandwidth isn't an input — egress is free at any volume.

Estimated cost

$ 0.38 /mo

First 500k requests free · then $0.25 per million

[Deploy](https://edge.network/account/access/new)

#### CDN rates

- Free tier: 3 deployments, 500k requests/month
- Then $0.25 per million requests
- Zero egress fees — bandwidth is never a line item
- Hard-capped by default — paid usage is opt-in

[Full CDN pricing, with competitor comparison](https://edge.network/cdn/pricing)

### Estimate your Storage bill

Data stored 250 GB
Downloads and requests aren't inputs — both are free at any volume.

Estimated cost

$ 3.68 /mo

First 5 GB free · then $0.015 per GB-month

[Create a bucket](https://edge.network/account/access/new)

#### Storage rates

- Free tier: 2 buckets, 5 GB
- Then $0.015 per GB-month, all NVMe
- S3-compatible API
- No egress fees, no per-request charges

[Full Storage pricing, with S3 / GCS / R2 comparison](https://edge.network/storage/pricing)

Your DNS bill, at any scale

Free

There's nothing to calculate. Up to 50 zones with unlimited records and 1M
queries/month per zone — no card required, no paid tier to grow into.

[Add a zone](https://edge.network/account/access/new)

#### DNS, free forever

- Up to 50 zones, unlimited records
- 1M queries/month per zone included
- Global anycast network, DNSSEC
- Verified email only — no card, no paid tier

[Full DNS pricing](https://edge.network/dns/pricing)

Your Shield bill, at any scale

Free

There's nothing to calculate. Unlimited widgets and verifications, forever —
a million checks costs the same as one.

[Create a widget](https://edge.network/account/access/new)

#### Shield, free forever

- Unlimited widgets & verifications
- Invisible checks — no puzzles for your users
- 1–100 humanity score & verified AI agents
- No cookies, no tracking, no paid tier

[Full Shield pricing](https://edge.network/shield/pricing)

### Estimate your Assist bill

Answered questions per month 1,000
Searches aren't an input — instant search is free and unlimited.

White-label — your assistant name & icon, no Edge branding ($29/site/mo)
Estimated cost

$ 7.50 /mo

First 250 questions free · then $0.01 per question

[Add your site](https://edge.network/account/access/new)

#### Assist rates

- Free tier: 250 answered questions/month
- Then $0.01 per question ($10 per 1,000)
- Instant search free & unlimited
- Ingestion, overrides & answer cache included

[Full Assist pricing, with worked examples](https://edge.network/assist/pricing)

## No Surprise Bills. By Design.

"No calculators" means no surprise bills and no egress math — not "no clear price for the box you build."

### Free tiers hard-cap by default

Exceeding a free tier pauses the resource — it never silently starts billing. Paid usage requires an explicit budget you set.

### Compute is prepaid

VMs bill hourly from a balance you load. When it runs out, VMs stop and your data is retained — no runaway bills, ever.

### Transparent configurator

Pick vCPU, RAM, and disk and see the exact monthly total before you deploy. No egress math, no fine print.

Enterprise

## Volume Pay-As-You-Go

From $499/mo . Volume-discounted rates 15–25% below AWS, GCP, and Azure.

- Custom vCPU / RAM / disk
- Per-resource billing with volume discounts
- Unlimited seats
- Priority support & account manager
- 99.99% SLA
- Annual discounts available

[Contact Sales](https://edge.network/contact)

### Compute

- vCPU: $0.004/hr (~$2.92/mo)
- RAM: $0.00256/GiB-hr (~$1.87/mo)
- Disk: $0.074/GiB-mo (NVMe)
- Billed hourly from your prepaid balance

### CDN

- Free tier: 500k requests/month
- Then $0.25 per million requests
- Zero egress fees
- Hard-capped by default — paid usage is opt-in with a budget

### DNS

- Free — up to 50 zones
- 1M queries/month per zone included
- Unlimited records

### Storage

- Free tier: 5 GB
- Then $0.015/GB-month
- No egress fees
- All NVMe

### Shield

- Free forever — no paid tier
- Unlimited widgets & verifications
- Humanity score & verified agents included

### Assist

- Free tier: 250 answered questions/month
- Then $0.01 per question ($10 per 1,000)
- Search free & unlimited
- White-label add-on: $29/site/month

## Zero Egress Fees. Always.

Traditional cloud punishes success – the more users you have, the more you pay to serve them.
We've eliminated egress fees entirely. Your data, your bandwidth, no penalty.

CDN bandwidth included
Storage egress completely free
Compute transfer included
Same pricing in every region

The Old Way vs Edge

Traditional Cloud (100TB egress)

$8,000 - $12,000 /mo

Edge (100TB egress)

$0 /mo

Expert Services

## Prefer Not to DIY?

Our Expert Services team builds and runs it for you — migrations, AI integration,
full-stack development. Senior, AI-native engineers at rates 20%+ below hiring
in-house, starting with a free consultation.

[Explore Expert Services](https://edge.network/solutions/expert-services) [Book Free Consultation](https://edge.network/solutions/expert-services#start-project)

## Ready to simplify your cloud bill?

Create a free account — no card required — or talk to our team about enterprise pricing.

[Start Free](https://edge.network/account/access/new) [Contact Sales](https://edge.network/contact)

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