🆚 Akamai vs. Azure CDN

📈 Akamai is twice as popular as Azure CDN.
🌎 Akamai is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
🌍 Azure CDN is more popular in Norway, Denmark, and Turkey.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Akamai

Azure 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.

Azure Content Delivery Network is a global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content by caching it at strategically placed physical nodes across the world.

Azure CDN Standard (classic) will be retired on September 30, 2027, and Microsoft advises migrating to Azure Front Door.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

akamai.com #18,159

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

Data Transfer Tier 1$0.049/GB

Data Transfer Tier 2$0.045/GB

Free version ✔️First 30 days

Outbound data transfers (first 10TB)$0.081/GB

10–50 TB$0.075/GB

50–150 TB$0.056/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Akamai CDN is 2.5 times more popular than Azure 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, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Azure CDN is more popular in Norway, Denmark, and Turkey.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Australia

Germany

Canada

Netherlands

France

India

Spain

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.

⭐ 4th most popular in Denmark in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Norway in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Ireland in the CDN category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the Netherlands in the CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Akamai is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Azure CDN is more commonly used on non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and real estate sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Finance/Banking

Travel

Entertainment

Fashion/Beauty

General News

Health

Motor Vehicles

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#14

#18

#23

Name

Rank

#88

#333

#342

#474

#547