🆚 Akamai vs. Alibaba Cloud CDN

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Akamai is four times more popular than Alibaba Cloud CDN.
🌎 Akamai is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Alibaba Cloud CDN is more popular in China, Indonesia, and Hong Kong.

Akamai

Alibaba Cloud CDN

Type

Content delivery network

About

Akamai is a global content delivery network provider that serves web content, streaming media, and applications through edge infrastructure in more than 130 countries.

It operates over 4,400 edge points of presence and supports a network capacity exceeding 1 petabit per second.

Alibaba Cloud CDN is a globally distributed content delivery network service provided by Alibaba Cloud.

It operates a worldwide network of more than 3,200 points of presence, with over 2,300 located in mainland China, uses intelligent scheduling to route requests to optimal edge nodes, supports advanced routing and protocol optimizations, and provides APIs for automation and integration.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Hangzhou, China

Website

akamai.com #18,159

alibabacloud.com #2,130

Pricing

Data Transfer Tier 1$0.049/GB

Data Transfer Tier 2$0.045/GB

Downstream traffic, 0–50 TB$0.07/GB

50–100TB$0.06/GB

100TB-1PB$0.03/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Akamai CDN is 4 times more popular than Alibaba Cloud CDN.

Total websites

Market share

CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Akamai is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, while Alibaba Cloud CDN is more popular in China, Indonesia, and Hong Kong.

United States

China

Indonesia

Japan

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

Canada

India

Netherlands