Best CDN Providers in 2026

Cloudflare, Inc. is a US company that runs one of the most widely used reverse-proxy networks. Customers point their domain's DNS at Cloudflare, after which the network proxies and caches traffic; the company describes this as requiring no further configuration. Its network page lists data centres in 348 cities and more than 13,000 network interconnections, and says 95% of the world's internet users are within 50 milliseconds of a Cloudflare data centre.

The CDN is one part of a broader platform that includes DNS, a web application firewall, the Workers serverless runtime, Stream video, Images and a domain registrar. Unmetered DDoS protection is listed on every plan, including Free. Cloudflare reported 2025 revenue of US$2,167.9 million, up 29.8% year on year, covering all products.

The Free plan is the main reason Cloudflare is the default CDN for many small sites. Paid plans add image optimisation, more WAF rules and support. The trade-off is that the full reverse-proxy model routes all of a site's traffic through Cloudflare, and several features, including Argo routing and Load Balancing, are paid add-ons on every tier.

Akamai Technologies, incorporated in 1998 and headquartered at 145 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is listed on Nasdaq under the ticker AKAM. It reported 2025 revenue of US$4.21 billion and more than 11,800 employees, with an edge network spanning more than 600 cities. Revenue covers security and cloud computing as well as delivery.

Akamai states that its customers include all of the top ten video streaming services, video game companies, banks and retailers, and 15 of 15 US federal civilian cabinet agencies. Its delivery products cover web and API acceleration, large-file downloads and adaptive video streaming, and it sells security products such as WAF, bot management and DDoS mitigation on the same network.

In December 2024 Akamai completed the purchase of selected assets of Edgio, taking over customer contracts from Edgio's delivery and security businesses and non-exclusive patent licences, which gave several hundred Edgio customers a migration path. Akamai sells mainly through quote-based enterprise contracts, so it is rarely the first choice for small sites, and configuration is more complex than self-service CDNs.

Amazon CloudFront is the content delivery network of Amazon Web Services. AWS says it operates more than 750 PoPs in over 100 cities across more than 50 countries, 15 regional edge caches inside AWS Regions, and more than 1,140 embedded PoPs placed inside ISP networks in over 300 cities.

CloudFront integrates with S3, Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Shield, AWS WAF and Route 53. Two edge compute options are offered: CloudFront Functions for lightweight header manipulation, redirects and cache-key normalisation with typically sub-millisecond latency, and Lambda@Edge for heavier logic. Origin Shield adds a central caching layer to reduce origin fetches.

Pricing has two forms. Pay-as-you-go includes an always-free allowance of 1 TB of data transfer and 10 million requests a month, then charges US$0.085 per GB for the next 9 TB in North America and Europe. Flat-rate plans billed per distribution were added later: Free, Pro at $15, Business at $200 and Premium at $1,000 a month. CloudFront suits workloads already on AWS; pay-as-you-go bills can be harder to predict than flat plans, and request charges are separate from bandwidth.

Fastly, Inc. is a publicly listed edge cloud company with its headquarters dateline in San Francisco. It reported 2025 revenue of US$624.0 million, up 15%, and 628 enterprise customers in the fourth quarter of 2025. Its about page states network capacity of 622 Tbps and says Fastly deliberately runs fewer, larger PoPs than competitors.

Fastly's delivery product is known for configurable caching, fast purging and detailed real-time logging, and its Compute platform runs customer code at the edge. Security packages, Image Optimizer, object storage and observability are sold alongside delivery. Customers quoted on its site include Deliveroo, Giphy and Bell Media.

Pricing changed for accounts created from 4 November 2025: a Free tier covers 100 GB of bandwidth and 1 million requests a month, and the usage-based Growth plan charges US$0.12 per GB from 100 GB to 10 TB in North America and Europe, with higher rates elsewhere. Committed Network Services packages start at US$1,500 a month. Per-GB rates are higher than the budget specialists', and the packages cap traffic from the Africa, India and South Korea regions at 10%.

Google Cloud CDN is the content delivery service of Google Cloud. It works with Google's external Application Load Balancer, caching responses from Cloud Storage and custom origins at Google's edge. A separate product, Media CDN, is aimed at video streaming and large downloads and has its own price list.

Cloud CDN charges for cache data transfer out, cache fill and cache lookups. In North America the first 10 TiB a month cost US$0.08 per GiB, falling to US$0.055 between 10 and 150 TiB, US$0.03 up to 1,000 TiB and US$0.02 above that. Cache lookups are US$0.0075 per 10,000. Google's own worked example puts 500 GiB of cached delivery at about US$44 a month.

The service is most practical for applications already on Google Cloud, where the load balancer is already in place. Its pricing page notes that on cache misses, Cloud Load Balancing data-processing or Cloud Storage operation charges also apply, so total cost depends on the surrounding stack. There is no flat-rate plan or free tier specific to the CDN.

Azure Front Door is Microsoft's combined CDN, global load balancer and web application firewall. After the Edgio platform shut down on 15 January 2025, Microsoft moved remaining Azure CDN from Edgio customers to Front Door Standard, making Front Door the main Azure delivery product.

Front Door has two tiers. Standard costs a base fee of US$35 a month and Premium US$330. Data transfer out to clients costs US$0.083 per GB for the first 10 TB in North America and Europe; requests cost US$0.009 per 10,000 on Standard and US$0.015 on Premium, and Premium includes the WAF and Private Link connections to origins at no extra charge. Microsoft prices in US dollars and converts other currencies at London closing spot rates.

Front Door suits organisations standardised on Azure that want delivery, routing and WAF in one resource. The per-profile base fee makes it relatively expensive for small sites, and Microsoft's own migration notes warned that automatic migration from Edgio could not guarantee feature parity.

bunny.net is operated by BunnyWay d.o.o., a company that describes itself as stationed in Europe. It started in 2014, and Bunny CDN entered beta in October 2015. The company reports more than 100,000 active customers and 1.5 million websites. Its network page lists 119 PoPs in 77 countries, a backbone of more than 250 Tbps and a global average latency of 24 ms, all vendor-reported figures.

The product is a pull-zone CDN with additional storage, streaming and optimisation products sold alongside it. Two networks are offered: Standard, priced by region, and Volume, a 10-PoP network priced for heavy bandwidth.

Standard pricing is US$0.01 per GB in Europe and North America, US$0.03 in Asia and Oceania, US$0.045 in South America and US$0.06 in the Middle East and Africa, with a US$1 minimum monthly charge and a 14-day trial without a credit card. Volume pricing starts at US$0.005 per GB. The low price comes with a smaller footprint than the largest networks, and the Volume tier trades PoP count for cost.

Gcore was founded in 2014 in Luxembourg and is headquartered in Contern. It reports more than 600 staff and offices in Luxembourg, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia, Georgia, Cyprus and Uzbekistan, with more than 210 points of presence on six continents and more than 14,000 peering partners.

The CDN is part of a broader edge platform that also includes cloud locations (50+ according to Gcore) and DDoS protection. Gcore's CDN page claims average global latency under 30 ms and 200 Tbps of DDoS filtering capacity.

Pricing is published in euros excluding VAT. The first 1 TB each month is free without a credit card; traffic from 1 TB to 500 TB costs €0.01 per GB, falling to €0.005 per GB above 2 PB. Gcore is a strong option for European and Central Asian audiences; buyers billed in dollars should account for euro pricing and VAT.

CDN77 is a CDN whose website carries a DataCamp Limited copyright notice and says the company has been on the market for 15 years. It claims a 340 Tbps network with a private global backbone, daily traffic peaks of 95 Tbps and 535 PB of data delivered daily, all vendor figures.

Named customers include Starz, Rakuten, Udemy, ESL, Avast and Banijay, reflecting its focus on video, gaming and software distribution. Object storage is offered as an add-on.

The self-service Growth plan costs US$990 a month for up to 250 TB of traffic, with overage at US$3.96 per TB and all PoPs included; Enterprise pricing is tailored to volume. CDN77 does not publish a PoP count on these pages or a free trial with stated terms, and its plans are aimed at high-volume customers rather than small sites.

Alibaba Cloud CDN is the content delivery service of Alibaba Group's cloud division. Alibaba Cloud states that it runs more than 3,200 nodes worldwide in over 70 countries and regions with total capacity exceeding 180 Tbps.

The service supports HTTP/3, HTTPS, origin failover, access control, compression and image processing, real-time and offline log analysis, and automation through OpenAPI, Terraform and EdgeScript, Alibaba's programmable scripting language for edge rules.

Pay-by-traffic pricing is US$0.04 per GB in the Chinese mainland and US$0.07 per GB in North America and the European Union for the first tier. Outside Asia its rates are higher than the budget specialists'.

EdgeOne is Tencent Cloud's edge platform combining CDN, DDoS protection, web application firewall, bot management and Edge Functions. Tencent states that it has more than 3,200 CDN PoPs, over 2,500 of them in Asia, 400 Tbps of network bandwidth and more than 25 Tbps reserved for DDoS mitigation.

Unlike most Chinese cloud CDNs, EdgeOne sells flat monthly plans. The Free plan offers unmetered CDN traffic without a credit card; Personal was listed at a promotional US$1.4 a month (normally US$4.2) with 50 GB; Basic costs US$57 a month with 500 GB; Standard US$590 with 3 TB; Enterprise is custom. Usage above a plan's quota is billed hourly.

EdgeOne is strongest for audiences in Asia, and its rule engine supports authentication, URL rewriting and redirects at the edge. Plan quotas are small compared with Cloudflare's unmetered paid tiers, and each plan below Enterprise connects only one site.

KeyCDN is a pay-as-you-go CDN whose site footer names proinity LLC and carries a "Made in Switzerland" mark. Its network page describes more than 60 data centres in over 40 countries on six continents.

The service is a self-service, usage-billed CDN aimed at sites that want to offload static assets without a contract or plan commitment.

Pricing is per GB with volume tiers: in North America and Europe, US$0.04 for the first 10 TB, falling to US$0.01 above 100 TB; Asia and Oceania start at US$0.08 and Africa and Latin America at US$0.10. The pricing page states a US$4 monthly minimum usage charge and also lists a US$49 minimum payment for credit top-ups. The network is smaller than those of most providers above, and KeyCDN offers less in the way of bundled security or edge compute.