⚡ Content Delivery Networks in China

A CDN, a content delivery network, or content distribution network, is a network of geographically distributed servers that speed up the delivery of web content.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, content delivery networks are used on 18.1% of websites from China.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top CDN providers in China in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Cloudflare, which dominates the market with a substantial 58.5% share.
It is followed by Alibaba Cloud CDN with 29% and Akamai with 5%.

Cloudflare 58.5%
Alibaba Cloud CDN 29%
Akamai 5%
Amazon CloudFront 5%
CDNetworks 3%
Tencent EdgeOne 1.8%
Fastly 1.4%
Azure CDN 0.3%
Google Cloud CDN 0.2%
Imgix 0.2%
Azure Front Door 0.2%
Bunny CDN 0.2%
Cloudinary 0.1%
Imperva 0.1%
Optimole 0.09%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top CDN providers that are more popular in China than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. Alibaba Cloud CDN ^(-8)
3. Akamai ^(-1)
5. CDNetworks ^(-15)
6. Tencent EdgeOne ^(-17)
10. Imgix ^(-6)
11. Azure Front Door ^(-1)
15. Optimole ^(-2)
18. QUIC.cloud ^(-1)
20. Gcore ^(-11)
22. KeyCDN ^(-11)

✨ Best CDN Providers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 29 CDN providers used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Cloudflare San Francisco, California, United States A global content delivery network designed for enterprise-grade speed and built-in DDoS protection. Free$25+/month	58.5%
2	Alibaba Cloud CDN Hangzhou, China A globally distributed content delivery network service provided by Alibaba Cloud. $$$	29%
3	Akamai Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A global content delivery network provider that serves web content, streaming media, and applications through edge infrastructure in more than 130 countries. $$$	5%
4	Amazon CloudFront Seattle, Washington, United States A highly scalable content delivery network service operated by Amazon Web Services. Free tier$$$	5%
5	CDNetworks Singapore The APAC-leading network with more than 200,000 global servers. Free$$$	3%
6	Tencent EdgeOne Shenzhen, China An integrated edge security and acceleration platform developed by Tencent Cloud that combines global CDN delivery, web application protection, bot and DDoS mitigation, and edge computing. Free$4.2+/month	1.8%
7	Fastly San Francisco, California, United States A global content delivery network provider that delivers cached and dynamic web content via edge servers deployed around the world. Free$$$	1.4%
8	Azure CDN Redmond, Washington, United States A global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content by caching it at strategically placed physical nodes across the world. Free$$$	0.3%
9	Google Cloud CDN Mountain View, California, United States Accelerates web applications using Google's global edge network. $$$	0.2%
10	Imgix San Francisco, California, United States A service that combines real-time image processing, asset management, and CDN. $25+/month	0.2%
11	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	0.2%
12	Bunny CDN Ljubljana, Slovenia A global content delivery network with over 200 Tbps of network capacity. $1+/month	0.2%
13	Cloudinary Santa Clara, California, United States A cloud-based image and video API platform that provides tools for uploading, managing, transforming, optimizing, and delivering digital media assets. Free$99+/month	0.1%
14	Imperva San Mateo, California, United States Content Delivery Network brings content caching, load balancing, and failover so your applications and content are securely delivered across the globe. Free$59+	0.1%
15	Optimole Bucharest, Romania A service that optimizes and serves images for websites. Free$22.99+/month	0.09%
16	ShortPixel Bucharest, Romania An image optimization service with WebP and AVIF support and CDN delivery. FreeOpen source$9.99+/month	0.08%
17	Sucuri Tempe, Arizona, United States A managed website security service provider that also offers a CDN as part of its protection platform. $229+/year	0.07%
18	QUIC.cloud Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States A CDN for WordPress with HTTP/3 and QUIC support. Free$$$	0.06%
19	WPMU CDN Melbourne, Australia A content delivery network for WordPress sites with 123 Points of Presence and 150 Tbps+ network capacity. $36+/year	0.03%
20	Gcore Contern, Luxembourg A global content delivery network and cloud solutions provider with over 180 CDN points of presence. Free$37+/month	0.02%
21	PressCDN Tempe, Arizona, United States A content delivery available for free with every hosting plan from the managed WordPress hosting provider Pagely. $$$	0.01%
22	KeyCDN Ermatingen, Switzerland A content delivery network headquartered in Switzerland. $$$	0.01%
23	20iCDN Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom A content distribution network service included for free with every hosting plan from the UK web hosting company 20i. $$$	0.01%
24	ImageKit New Delhi, India A media CDN that optimizes and transforms images and videos. Free$89+/month	0.01%
25	Cloudimage Lyon, France A media optimization service that converts images to the optimal format, adjusts the size-quality ratio, and delivers them via its own CDN. Free$32+/month	0.007%

👉 See Also

🌎 CDN in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 82,617 websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.