Alternatives to Akamai
6 other hosting and CDN tools are on the stores we index. Cloudflare is the most used, on 675 of 850 stores (79%), then Amazon CloudFront on 51. Akamai itself is on 32 (4%).
Akamai and its alternatives
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| Akamai (this tool) | 4% |
|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 79% |
| Amazon CloudFront | 6% |
| Vercel | 6% |
| Fastly | 5% |
| Shopify Oxygen | 4% |
| Netlify | 3% |
Every alternative
| Tool | Stores | Also use Akamai | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 675 (79%) | 7 | Compare |
| Amazon CloudFront | 51 (6%) | 2 | Compare |
| Vercel | 47 (6%) | 1 | Compare |
| Fastly | 40 (5%) | 2 | Compare |
| Shopify Oxygen | 33 (4%) | 0 | |
| Netlify | 23 (3%) | 0 |
Switches
No stores we index have switched between Akamai and another hosting and CDN tool yet. We record what each store uses at the end of every month, so switches show here as they happen.
By industry
Where Akamai is on at least 5 stores, the most used alternative there.
- Fashion and accessories: Akamai on 16 of 190; Cloudflare on 157
Of the stores we index, not the whole market, and not a ranking of which tool is better. Found in each store’s public pages, so the real numbers may be higher. How we measure