🆚 Akamai vs. Azure Front Door

📈 Akamai is four times more popular than Azure Front Door.
🌎 Akamai is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
🌍 Azure Front Door is more popular in Malta, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Brunei Darussalam.

Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Akamai

Azure Front Door

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 Front Door is a content delivery network service from the Microsoft Azure cloud that offers more than 100 edge locations, Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities, and TCP splitting paired with a private global Microsoft backbone network.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

akamai.com #18,549

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

Data Transfer Tier 1 $0.049/GB

Data Transfer Tier 2 $0.045/GB

Free version ❌

Standard $35/month

Premium $330/month

Outbound data transfers (first 10TB) $0.083/GB

10–50 TB $0.066/GB

50–150 TB $0.057/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Akamai CDN is 4 times more popular than Azure Front Door.

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 Front Door is more popular in Malta, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Brunei Darussalam.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Germany

Australia

Canada

Netherlands

Brazil

India

France

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in the Philippines in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Greece in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Vietnam in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Uruguay in the CDN category.

🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the WAF category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the WAF category.
🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the WAF category.
🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the WAF category.
🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the WAF category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Akamai is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Azure Front Door is more commonly used on real estate sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Finance/Banking

Travel

Entertainment

General News

Health

Software/Hardware

Motor Vehicles

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#16

#22

#25

Name

Rank

#13

#57

#184

#387