Amazon CloudFront vs Anyscale (2026): Pricing, Features & Verdict
Amazon CloudFront is our pick, scoring 7.9/10 against 6.7/10 for Anyscale on our Hosting & Infrastructure criteria. Its biggest advantage: higher Integration score (9/10 vs 7/10). Only Amazon CloudFront has a free plan.
Last updated: November 2026
Amazon CloudFront
7.9/10
Amazon CloudFront is the AWS content delivery network. It caches and serves websites, APIs and media from more than 750 edge locations, and includes DDoS protection, WAF and edge compute.
Anyscale
6.7/10
Anyscale is a managed platform from the creators of Ray for running distributed AI data processing, training and inference on hosted or customer-owned cloud and Kubernetes compute.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | A Amazon CloudFront | |
|---|---|---|
| Scores | ||
| Overall Rating | 7.9/10 | 6.7/10 |
| Integration | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Support | 6/10 | 6/10 |
| Cost | 6/10 | 4/10 |
| Customization | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Security | 9/10 | 8/10 |
| Reliability | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Ease of Use | 5/10 | 5/10 |
| Analytics | 7/10 | 7/10 |
| Scalability | 10/10 | 9/10 |
| Pricing | ||
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Cheapest paid plan | $15/mo Pro (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
| Estimated cost for 10 users | Free Free (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
| Features | ||
| API and CLI | ||
| Multiple Regions | ||
| Cloud Compute | Not listed | |
| Content Delivery Network | Not listed | |
| DDoS Protection | Not listed | |
| Dedicated Servers | Not listed | |
| Free SSL Certificates | Not listed | |
| Managed WordPress | ||
| Serverless Functions | Not listed | |
| Shared Hosting | ||
| Uptime SLA | Not listed | |
Amazon CloudFront vs Anyscale cost by team size
| Team size | Amazon CloudFront | Anyscale |
|---|---|---|
| 1 user | FreeFree (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
| 5 users | FreeFree (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
| 10 users | FreeFree (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
| 25 users | FreeFree (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
| 50 users | FreeFree (flat-rate) | Contact for pricing |
The plan that fits each team size, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges. Each cost opens that tool's pricing calculator for the team size.
Who Amazon CloudFront and Anyscale suit
Amazon CloudFront fits small business and saas companies better than Anyscale.
| Audience | Amazon CloudFront | Anyscale |
|---|---|---|
| Small Business | 5/10Reviewers cite configuration complexity and costs as hurdles for smaller teams that are not technical. | 2/10It is a specialist distributed AI compute platform and offers nothing for typical small business hosting needs. |
| SaaS Companies | 8/10It integrates natively with AWS origins and supports blue/green continuous deployment, a good fit for SaaS products hosted on AWS. | 6/10Useful for SaaS companies running batch inference or model serving at scale, though it does not host web front ends, databases or CI/CD. |
| Developers | 9/10It offers a full API, works with CloudFormation and the SDKs, and runs code at the edge, which suits engineers who want deep control. | 8/10Built for ML engineers and Python developers who write Ray code and want managed clusters, workspaces, a CLI and an SDK. |
| Startups | 7/10The always-free tier and the $15 Pro flat-rate plan keep early costs low. | 6/10The $100 starting credit and pay-as-you-go hosted option help AI startups, but reviewers say costs are hard to predict and the platform can be too much for simple workloads. |
| Enterprise | 8/10It holds PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC and FedRAMP Moderate compliance, offers custom pricing, and runs on a very large edge network. | 8/10BYOC in the customer's own VPC, SSO/SAML/SCIM, audit logs, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, and 24x7 enterprise support suit large AI teams. |
Which One Should You Choose?
AWhy choose Amazon CloudFront
- Has a free plan (Anyscale does not)
- Higher Integration score (9/10 vs 7/10)
- Higher Cost score (6/10 vs 4/10)
- Better fit for small business (5/10 vs 2/10)
- Better fit for saas companies (8/10 vs 6/10)
Why choose Anyscale
Our data shows no clear advantage over Amazon CloudFront.
Pros & Cons
AAmazon CloudFront
Pros
- The network is very large, with more than 750 PoPs plus over 1,140 PoPs embedded inside ISP networks.
- Data transfer from AWS origins such as S3 and EC2 to CloudFront costs nothing, which lowers costs for workloads hosted on AWS.
- Flat-rate plans start at $15 a month with no overage charges, which makes bills predictable.
- It has strong compliance coverage, including PCI-DSS Level 1, HIPAA, SOC, ISO and FedRAMP Moderate.
- Two tiers of edge compute are available: CloudFront Functions at $0.10 per million invocations and Lambda@Edge for heavier code.
Cons
- G2 and Capterra reviewers report complex configuration and a steep learning curve for people new to AWS.
- Capterra-network reviewers rate customer support poorly, around 3.4 out of 5.
- Flat-rate plans lack some features, such as real-time logs, dedicated IP SSL and continuous deployment, and going over the allowance reduces performance.
- Dedicated IP SSL at $600 a month and Anycast Static IPs at $3,000 a month are expensive extras.
- Users on AWS re:Post and GitHub report cache invalidations that occasionally hang for hours or time out during deploys.
Anyscale
Pros
- Built by the creators of Ray, so existing Ray code scales to large GPU clusters with few changes, a point G2 reviewers also make.
- The BYOC option keeps data and compute inside the customer's own AWS, GCP or Kubernetes environment and can use existing GPU reservations.
- Runs on several compute sources: AWS, GCP, Azure AKS, Nebius, CoreWeave and on-premises Kubernetes.
- Holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, and offers SSO, SAML, SCIM and audit logs for multi-team governance.
- Usage-based billing with no fixed monthly fee, plus $100 in starting credits for testing.
Cons
- G2 reviewers report a steep learning curve for teams unfamiliar with Ray concepts.
- Costs are hard to forecast, and Spheron estimates managed clusters cost roughly 1.5 to 2 times bare-metal GPU rates.
- Rates for H100 and newer GPUs are not published and require contacting sales.
- The hosted option has limited regions, business-hours support capped at 5 cases, and only temporary 90-day scratch storage.
- It focuses on Ray workloads and does not cover web front ends, databases or CI/CD for full applications.
Not sold on either?
Frequently Asked Questions
Amazon CloudFront scores higher on our Hosting & Infrastructure criteria: 7.9/10 against 6.7/10 for Anyscale. The largest gap is in Cost: 6/10 for Amazon CloudFront and 4/10 for Anyscale.
Amazon CloudFront has a free plan; Anyscale does not list one.
Amazon CloudFront is the better fit for small business: we rate it 5/10 for them, against 2/10 for Anyscale.
