🆚 Akamai vs. Fastly

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Fastly is twice as popular as Akamai.
🌎 Fastly is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Akamai is more popular in Japan, India, and China.

Akamai

Fastly

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.

Fastly is a global content delivery network provider that delivers cached and dynamic web content via edge servers deployed around the world.

It operates a network of over 120 points of presence with more than 460 Tbps of connected global capacity, and offers built-in DDoS and web application firewall protection, origin shielding to reduce backend load, instant purging of cached content, and fine-grained API control over HTTP headers and caching rules.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

akamai.com #18,159

fastly.com #94

Pricing

Data Transfer Tier 1$0.049/GB

Data Transfer Tier 2$0.045/GB

Free version ✔️

Usage$50/month + usage price

Basic$1,500/month

Starter$6,000/month

UltimateOn request

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Fastly CDN is 1.8 times more popular than Akamai.

Total websites

Market share

CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Fastly is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Akamai is more popular in Japan, India, and China.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Australia

Germany

Canada

France

Brazil

India

Spain

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in the Cayman Islands in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Seychelles in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in China in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in India in the CDN category.

🥈 Second most popular in Malta in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Nepal in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Fastly is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Akamai is more commonly used on travel, general news, and finance and banking sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Travel

General News

Software/Hardware

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki