---
title: "Edge Network | The cloud, closer"
description: "CDN, compute, storage, DNS, bot protection and AI assistants on a network of thousands of independent nodes near the people you serve. Zero egress. Free to start."
url: https://edge.network/refresh/
---

# Edge Network | The cloud, closer

EDGE-NATIVE CLOUD

# Closer to your users than the cloud has ever been

CDN, compute, storage and DNS on a network of thousands of nodes near the
people you serve. Zero egress fees. Free to start. Built for humans and the
agents working for them.

[Start free, no card required](https://edge.network/console/access/new) [Connect your agent](https://edge.network/docs/agent/connect)

Every free tier hard-caps by default. Nothing on Edge silently starts billing.

WHO WE ARE

## A cloud that runs where people are

Edge is powered by thousands of independent node operators rather than a few
hyperscale data centres. That makes it faster for every visitor, more resilient
by design, cheaper to run, and radically lighter on the planet. Eight years in,
it serves three thousand customers, from indie sites to Bauer and Tinder.

[About Edge](https://edge.network/about)
3K+

Customers

1,016

Nodes online

100%

Network uptime

$0

Egress fees

WHY THE EDGE

## Three things geography buys you

Centralised clouds solve distance with bigger machines and bigger bills. We solve it by not having the distance.

### Speed from geography, not brute force

Your content and code run on 1,016 nodes near your users instead of a handful of regions. Shorter paths beat bigger data centres.

[See the network](https://edge.network/network)

### Zero egress. Not a promotion, a principle.

You are never charged to move your own data. CDN bandwidth, storage egress and compute transfer are included at any scale.

[See pricing](https://edge.network/pricing)

### Half the energy

Spare capacity on existing hardware, no new data centres, and data that travels half as far. Around 50% less energy than the centralised cloud.

[How we measure it](https://edge.network/environment)

ONE PLATFORM

## The whole stack. One console. One bill.

Static sites, WordPress, Next.js, containers, databases, media. If it runs on the web it runs on Edge, and each product starts free.

[### CDN Global delivery with image optimisation 3 deployments, 500k requests a month free](https://edge.network/cdn)[### Compute Dedicated VMs, billed hourly by resource From $0.004 per vCPU-hour, $5 starter credit](https://edge.network/compute)[### Storage S3-compatible object storage on NVMe 2 buckets, 5 GB free, no egress fees](https://edge.network/storage)[### DNS Authoritative anycast DNS with geo-routing Free for everyone, up to 50 zones](https://edge.network/dns)[### Shield Bot protection that never shows a human a puzzle Free forever, unlimited verifications](https://edge.network/shield)[### Assist AI answers grounded in your own content 250 answered questions a month free](https://edge.network/assist)
[See all pricing](https://edge.network/pricing) [What you can host on Edge](https://edge.network/hosting)

PERFORMANCE

## One of the fastest clouds on Earth

Not our benchmark. Live real-user measurements from PerfOps, the independent monitor
used to rank every major CDN, refreshed as you read this.

Powered by PerfOps
Independent RUM monitoring

[About the methodology](https://www.perfops.net)

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[Full performance data](https://edge.network/cdn/performance)
DESIGNED FOR HUMANS

## The cleanest control centre on Earth

No 47-tab dashboards and no certification required. Every product in one place,
with one bill, and a balance that tells you what it is doing and why.

[Open a free account](https://edge.network/console/access/new)

THE AGENTIC WEB

## Built for people. Ready for their agents.

A growing share of legitimate traffic is software acting for a person. Edge treats
it as a first-class customer: deployable by API, readable by machine, verified at the door.

One line to connect

Cursor, Windsurf, Claude and any MCP client get native Edge tools. No account needed to start; the server signs itself up for a free tier.

Machine-readable by default

Every page on this site ships as llms.txt, markdown and JSON. Agents get clean answers, not HTML to scrape.

Agents as a signal, not a threat

Shield scores traffic instead of blanket-blocking it. Sites on Edge welcome humans, route verified agents and stop real abuse.

[Connect your tool](https://edge.network/docs/agent/connect) [Agent documentation](https://edge.network/docs/agent)

mcp.json 22 tools

```
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "edge": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@edge-network/mcp"] }
  }
}
```

> Deploy this folder to a CDN on mysite.com

✓ Signed up for a free explore-tier account

✓ Created CDN deployment and DNS zone

✓ TLS issued, live at https://mysite.com

BEYOND INFRASTRUCTURE

## When you want us to build it too

The same team that runs the network takes on migrations, full builds and frontier R&D for customers who would rather ship than hire.

[### Expert Services AI-native development teams for migrations, integrations and full builds. Senior talent embedded month to month, at 20% or more below the cost of hiring in-house. Free initial consultation.](https://edge.network/solutions/expert-services) [### Edge Labs A frontier R&D unit on retainer: a quarterly report on what matters in AI and robotics for your sector, a monthly brief, and two or three product concepts a year that we can build and hand over finished.](https://edge.network/solutions/labs)

## Start free. Two minutes. No card.

Deploy a site, a zone, a bucket or a Shield widget on the free tiers. Add a card
only when you want more, and pay for what you use from a balance you control.

[Create your account](https://edge.network/console/access/new) [View pricing](https://edge.network/pricing)

Free tiers on every product, hard-capped by default
Zero egress fees at any scale
Prepaid balance; nothing bills without your say-so

## Stay updated

Product updates, engineering notes and network news. Once or twice a month.