🆚 Akamai vs. Cloudflare

📈 Cloudflare is much more popular than Akamai.
🌍 Cloudflare is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Akamai

Cloudflare

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.

Cloudflare CDN is a global content delivery network designed for enterprise-grade speed and DDoS protection, backed by more than 405 Tbps of network capacity.

It has over 330 points of presence in more than 125 countries with edge nodes within 50 ms of 95% of Internet-connected users, and provides built-in bot mitigation, web analytics, email obfuscation, and granular security and cache rules.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

akamai.com #18,159

cloudflare.com #20

Pricing

Data Transfer Tier 1 $0.049/GB

Data Transfer Tier 2 $0.045/GB

Free version ✔️

Pro $25/month

Business $250/month

Enterprise Custom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Cloudflare CDN is 21 times more popular than Akamai.

Total websites

Market share

CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Cloudflare is more popular than Akamai in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

Germany

France

Brazil

India

Indonesia

Netherlands

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 the United States in the CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in Canada in the CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Cloudflare is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Akamai is more commonly used on travel, motor vehicles, and fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Health

Software/Hardware

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#14

#18

#28

Name

Rank

#12

#20

#23

xhamster.com

#24