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Fastly vs Gcore

Fastly scores higher on the AgentReady, 60/100 against 43/100. 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

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

Gcore. Gcore is a cloud infrastructure and edge services provider offering CDN, cloud computing, AI infrastructure, streaming, DDoS protection, and security solutions.

Where Fastly is ahead

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

It also holds understand: pricing understandable and limits / constraints documented. Gcore misses those.

And on adopt, self-service signup, agent-compatible signup flow, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, cli available and mcp integration available. Gcore misses those.

Where Gcore is ahead

Gcore 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.

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, agent compatibility verified. 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. Gcore leads 87 to 80. Fastly misses clear product positioning, llms-full.txt / full agent docs; Gcore misses mcp discoverable.

Understand. Fastly leads 46 to 31. Fastly misses openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented; Gcore misses openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt is whether an agent can get a key and make its first successful call without a human in the loop. Fastly leads 80 to 20. Fastly misses no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation; Gcore misses self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, cli available, mcp integration available.

Operate. Both sit at 35/100 here. Fastly misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified; Gcore misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

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

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: Fastly and Gcore. Alternatives to each: Fastly, Gcore.

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