Three months of production numbers
OpenCache did not launch as a promise. Multiple content providers ran production traffic through it for three months before this page existed.
Estimate the offload
Move the slider to your monthly volume. The more you serve, the more effective the cache becomes, and the larger the share of delivery you stop paying CDN fees for. Users get local latency; your origin carries a fraction of its former load.
About 949 TB served from inside the network, bandwidth you would otherwise pay transit on at $9.99/TB.
Cache effectiveness climbs with volume, approaching the 97% measured on production on-demand traffic at scale. Transit billed at $9.99/TB; your figures depend on your traffic mix.
Free to serve. Qualify to host.
OpenCache is nonprofit infrastructure, operated by P Foundation and open on equal terms.
Serving through OpenCache costs nothing. Every request delivered from a local cache node is a request you no longer pay CDN fees for; partner CDNs carry only the remainder outside the footprint.
An Embedded OpenCache PoP goes into networks that sustain more than 5 Gbps of peak OpenCache traffic. We deploy and operate it; every byte it serves on-net is a byte that never crosses your international transit links, cutting the transit bill for all participating providers' content at once.
One platform, tiered to stay local
Every node runs the same platform under one control plane; what differs is the network it serves. A miss does not jump straight abroad: it falls through to the PoP at the exchange first. Select any part of the path to see what it does.
Subscribers hit the embedded PoP in their own ISP first
Subscribers served from on-net
An Embedded OpenCache PoP inside an ISP serves that ISP’s subscribers from on-net and offloads its transit. A listen-only BGP session teaches it exactly which prefixes are local, and a health score reported every 15 seconds steers traffic away from a draining or saturated PoP before users notice. Hosting one calls for more than 5 Gbps of peak OpenCache traffic.
Onboard in four moves
You keep your origin and full authority over your content. OpenCache localizes the delivery.
Bring a domain, get the edge
Per-provider certificates are issued automatically through ACME, or you supply your own. TLS terminates inside the foundation-operated node, never on host hardware, and every client negotiates HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, or HTTP/3 over QUIC.
The data plane spreads. The control plane does not.
Hosting grants no control
An ISP hosting an Embedded OpenCache PoP provides space, power, and connectivity. It gains no access to provider configuration, certificates, or traffic policies.
TLS stays inside the node
Certificates live and terminate inside the foundation-operated node. A host network cannot reprioritize, alter, or selectively degrade the content its node serves.
One policy engine, every node
The same policy engine, the same observability, and the same operational team cover the whole fleet, in the same way a neutral exchange offers the same terms to every participant.
Open at the edge
The edge software is open source. Any ISP hosting a PoP, and any provider serving through one, can read exactly what runs at the edge on GitHub.
Local where it counts, covered everywhere
OpenCache runs at multiple internet exchanges. At OpenIX Beirut, 37 peering networks carrying roughly 73% of Lebanon's traffic reach it with no transit in the path. Outside the current footprint, partner CDNs keep your audience covered globally, and as the footprint grows, more of that delivery moves local.
Host an Embedded OpenCache PoP
The model the hyperscaler cache programs proved, made available to everyone at once: a single footprint that offloads transit for every participating provider's content, deployed and operated by the foundation inside your network. Networks that sustain more than 5 Gbps of peak OpenCache traffic qualify.
- You provide rack space, power, an uplink, and a BGP session.
- We deploy and remotely operate the PoP: configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle are handled centrally.
- The PoP learns your prefixes and serves your subscribers from on-net, cutting your international transit costs.
Your audience is local. Your delivery can be too.
Apply as a content provider and start serving from inside the network, free of charge, with your origin and your authority over your content fully intact.