🆚 Alibaba Cloud CDN vs. Fastly

📈 Fastly is much more popular than Alibaba Cloud CDN.
🌎 Fastly is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
🌍 Alibaba Cloud CDN is more popular in China, Indonesia, and Hong Kong.

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

Alibaba Cloud CDN

Fastly

Type

Content delivery network

About

Alibaba Cloud CDN is a globally distributed content delivery network service provided by Alibaba Cloud.

It operates a worldwide network of more than 3,200 points of presence, with over 2,300 located in mainland China, uses intelligent scheduling to route requests to optimal edge nodes, supports advanced routing and protocol optimizations, and provides APIs for automation and integration.

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

Hangzhou, China

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

alibabacloud.com #2,130

fastly.com #94

Pricing

Downstream traffic, 0–50 TB$0.07/GB

50–100TB$0.06/GB

100TB-1PB$0.03/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 8 times more popular than Alibaba Cloud CDN.

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 Canada, while Alibaba Cloud CDN is more popular in China, Indonesia, and Hong Kong.

United States

China

United Kingdom

Indonesia

Canada

Germany

Australia

Japan

France

Brazil

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in China in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Indonesia in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Hong Kong in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Cambodia in the CDN category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Singapore in the CDN category.

🥈 Second most popular in Malta in the CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Iran in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the CDN category.
🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Fastly is more popular than Alibaba Cloud CDN in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Software/Hardware

Entertainment

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#85

#223

#450

#610

#1,124

Name

Rank

#15

#22

#23

#28

#42