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Fastly Next-Gen WAF (Signal Sciences) Pricing 2026

Fastly Next-Gen WAF is the former Signal Sciences detection engine integrated into the Fastly edge platform after the 2020 acquisition. It is excellent technology: SmartParse detection, RPC-style agent, edge-deployed. The pricing is opaque. As of 2024 every tier on the fastly.com/pricing page is marked Contact sales for pricing, so we label it quote-only honestly.

Last verified June 2026

Edge-WAF (former Signal Sciences), quote-only

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Quote only

Why quote only

Fastly Next-Gen WAF does not publish a list rate as of June 2026.

Fastly stopped publishing list rates for the Next-Gen WAF in 2024. The three Security packages are all gated behind a sales conversation. Existing Signal Sciences customers were migrated onto the Fastly contract structure.

Vendor contact page →Verified 2026-06-19

What it costs

Fastly Next-Gen WAF does not publish a list rate. The pricing model published on the vendor site is "Three security packages, all priced quote-only". Below is the tier structure as the vendor describes it. Every numeric figure on this site is sourced; we have nothing to put in the price column except the labels the vendor uses.

Fastly Next-Gen WAF pricing tiers

Tier 1Security Core
Contact sales for pricing
Tier 2Security Core Plus
Contact sales for pricing
Tier 3Security Total
Contact sales for pricing, includes DDoS and bot management

Source: https://www.fastly.com/pricing - retrieved 2026-06-19

What this vendor is best for

Engineering-led teams who want the Signal Sciences detection model and edge integration with Fastly.

Engineering-led teams who want the Signal Sciences detection model (low false positive rate, easy custom rules).
Existing Fastly CDN customers consolidating delivery and WAF on one contract.
API-heavy estates that benefit from per-endpoint observability the Signal Sciences agent provides.
Buyers willing to accept the loss of list pricing in exchange for the detection quality.

Hidden costs to watch

The line items most buyers miss

Bot management and DDoS sit inside the higher Security packages, with the package itself priced quote-only.
Per-request egress on the Fastly edge is billed separately from the WAF SKU.
Signal Sciences customers from before the Fastly acquisition were re-papered onto the Fastly contract structure; some saw renewal-pricing changes.
Add-on signals and managed rule packs released since the Fastly acquisition price as bundle moves rather than line items.

Direct answer

Where do I get a price for Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Contact the vendor directly at https://www.fastly.com/pricing. Quote-only vendors typically scope the contract by request volume, number of protected properties or applications, bandwidth tier, contract length, and which add-ons (bot management, API security, DDoS) are included. The quote-only vendor reference page lists the questions the rep will ask in a discovery call.

Source: Verified 2026-06-19

Why no public price

Fastly published per-request and per-site rates for Signal Sciences for a while after the acquisition. By 2024 the three Security packages (Core, Core Plus, Total) were all rewritten on the pricing page to read Contact sales for pricing. Whatever a search result tells you about a per-request rate for Fastly NGWAF, it is stale. The current honest position is quote-only.

Edge vs core deployment

Fastly Next-Gen WAF can run at the Fastly edge (in front of any origin) or as the agent/module-style Signal Sciences deployment on your own origin. Pricing is structured by the chosen deployment plus the Security package; both routes are quote-only.

Closest alternatives

Two published-rate vendors with the most similar pricing model and product fit.

Cloudflare WAF

Flat monthly plan, WAF included on every paid tier

Free plan, WAF rules included

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AWS WAF

Per web-ACL + per rule + per million requests

$5.00 per web-ACL per month

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Source

Every number on this page is taken from https://www.fastly.com/pricing, retrieved 2026-06-19. Re-check before signing a contract; vendors change pricing without notice.

Last verified June 2026