🆚 Akamai vs. Google Cloud CDN

📈 Akamai is noticeably more popular than Google Cloud CDN.
🌎 Akamai is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
🌎 Google Cloud CDN is more popular in the United Kingdom, Brazil, and France.

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

Akamai

Google 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.

Google Cloud CDN is a content delivery network service within Google Cloud that accelerates websites and web applications through Google's globally distributed edge infrastructure.

It caches static and dynamic content at edge locations close to users, supports cache invalidation, signed URLs and cookies, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, TLS termination, origin shielding, and integrates with Google Cloud services such as Cloud Storage, Cloud Armor, and Compute Engine.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

akamai.com #18,159

cloud.google.com/cdn

Pricing

Data Transfer Tier 1$0.049/GB

Data Transfer Tier 2$0.045/GB

Cache data transfer out< 10 TB/month$0.08+/GB
10–150 TB/month$0.055+/GB
150–500 TB/month$0.03+/GB

Cache fill$0.01+/GB

Lookup requests$0.0075/10K requests

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Akamai CDN is 1.4 times more popular than Google 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 Germany, while Google Cloud CDN is more popular in the United Kingdom, Brazil, and France.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Germany

Australia

Canada

Brazil

France

India

Netherlands

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 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 Lithuania in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in France in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Switzerland in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Israel 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, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Google Cloud CDN is more commonly used on recreation and hobbies sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Travel

Finance/Banking

General News

Education/Reference

Software/Hardware

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#14

#15

#18

Name

Rank

#86

#98

#155

#161

#267