Cloudflare vs Akamai CDN
Cloudflare offers better speed with no trade-offs in security or ease of use
Cloudflare’s Content Delivery Network gives websites exceptional speed and reliability with minimal hassle, making it a strong choice over Akamai’s CDN.
Learn more about Cloudflare’s CDN below, or sign up for free here:
Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud keeps websites fast (and secure) everywhere on Earth.
Our CDN is an integral part of the Cloudflare connectivity cloud, a unified platform of cloud-native services that provide fast, secure connectivity between any user, website, and infrastructure. It’s built on a global network that spans more than 310 cities, offers more than 228 Tbps of network capacity, and serves many of the world’s largest applications.
All of this means you can get enterprise-grade CDN services entirely for free — along with free built-in security functionality to keep your site safe from the largest attacks.
Top analysts identify Cloudflare’s CDN as a “Leader”
Recent reports by IDC1 and GigaOM2 both name Cloudflare as a “Leader” in the CDN space, with the former highlighting “[Cloudflare]’s self-serve portal and capabilities that include dashboards with detailed analytics as well as actionable content delivery and security analytics.” We believe this recognition is validation of our investments in making our CDN both highly performant and easy to use.
Integrated performance services to supercharge your user experience
Unlike providers whose various products live on different infrastructure, Cloudflare offers a variety of performance-enhancing services that are built to work together:
- Argo Smart Routing: Improve performance by as much as 30% by routing requests over the fastest Internet routes at any given moment
- Load Balancing: Distribute traffic evenly across all of your servers and data centers
- Cache Reserve: Keep your content cached longer in order to reduce costly egress fees