🆚 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 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Akamai
Google Cloud CDNType
Content delivery network
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 accelerates web applications using Google's global edge network.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
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 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.
- 🥉 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 non-profit, advocacy and NGO 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.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Google company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,372,830 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.