CloudFront Cost Calculator
Estimate AWS CloudFront data transfer and request cost.
With the default inputs, $92.50/month — 1,000 GB + 10,000,000 requests. Enter your own numbers below to recompute instantly; the full step-by-step math is shown under the worked example.
Results update automatically as you type.
- • Blended rate estimate; actual CloudFront pricing is region-tiered.
- Data transfer
- $85.00
- Requests
- $7.50
- Total / month
- $92.50
Estimate the monthly cost of serving traffic through AWS CloudFront based on data transfer out and request volume.
How this is calculated
Monthly cost ≈ data transfer out (GB) × blended per-GB rate + requests × per-request rate. Real CloudFront pricing is tiered by region and volume, so we use a blended rate for a planning estimate.
Is this a good result? What to do next
CloudFront is usually a small line for a content site; it matters for media-heavy or very high-traffic apps. Because pricing is tiered and regional, treat this as an order-of-magnitude estimate, not a quote.
Typical planning ranges
- Priced on
- data transfer out + requests
- Tiered
- by region and volume
- Small sites
- usually a minor cost
Ranges are typical planning figures to sanity-check your result, not authoritative benchmarks. Your numbers will vary with use case, volume, and vendor.
How to improve this number
- Increase cache hit ratio to cut origin transfer.
- Compress assets and set long cache TTLs.
- Use price-class regions if global coverage isn't needed.
Common mistakes
- Treating the blended rate as exact across regions.
- Ignoring request cost on high-traffic sites.
When to use a different approach
For object storage behind the CDN, use the S3 cost calculator. For serverless compute, use the AWS Lambda cost calculator.
Worked example (defaults)
With the default inputs above, here is the result:
- • Blended rate estimate; actual CloudFront pricing is region-tiered.
- Data transfer
- $85.00
- Requests
- $7.50
- Total / month
- $92.50
Sources & references
Frequently asked questions
Is this exact?+
It uses a blended rate. Actual CloudFront pricing is tiered by region and volume, so treat this as a planning estimate.