About us

We believe the internet
should be fast for everyone

Benediction started in 2019 with a simple observation: the best web infrastructure is invisible. Since then, a small, senior team has kept that focus — making the edge boring to run and delightful to use.

120
people, 18 countries
2.4M
customer zones
2019
founded in Amsterdam
100%
remote, async-first
Mission

What we're building

🌍

Performance is a right

Every site deserves a fast load time, regardless of where its visitors or its origin happen to be.

🔓

Open by default

Our documentation is public, our changelog is public, and our status page shows real numbers. No obscurity as a feature.

🧭

Small team, senior people

We hire for judgment and ship-leadership, not headcount. You talk to engineers, not account managers.


Timeline

Milestones

2024 — Edge KV goes general availability

2024-04

Global key-value storage for Workers with 1ms P99 reads in 90% of locations.

2023 — 100th edge location

2023-08

Passed 100 datacenters and 3 Tbps of total capacity.

2021 — WAF v2 with managed rules

2021-11

Rule language, daily-updated threat feed, and self-serve bot management.

2019 — Benediction launches

2019-06

First release: CDN, DNS, and edge Workers on a 9-location network.