🆚 Akamai vs. Alibaba Cloud CDN

📈 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.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

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

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Seychelles in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Greece in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in the Philippines in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Vietnam in the CDN category.

🥈 Second most popular in China in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Indonesia in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Hong Kong in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Cambodia in the CDN category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Singapore in the CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Akamai is more popular than Alibaba Cloud CDN in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Finance/Banking

Entertainment

Travel

General News

Software/Hardware

Internet Services

Motor Vehicles

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#14

#15

#18

Name

Rank

#85

#223

#450

#610

#1,124