Akamai Cloud

Overview

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.^[4] 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.^[4] 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.^[5] 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.

Akamai Cloud features

• Edge network in more than 600 cities
• Web, API, download and video delivery
• WAF, bot management and DDoS mitigation
• Edge compute and cloud computing services

Akamai Cloud pricing

Quote-based. Akamai does not publish list prices for its delivery products.

Akamai Cloud strengths and limitations

Appears in

• Top 44 Cloud Service Providers: 2026 Edition #19
• Best CDN Providers in 2026 #2

Akamai Cloud alternatives and competitors

Alternatives to Akamai Cloud: companies ranked in the same lists.

• Microsoft Azure AI Speech
• Gcore
• Amazon Lex
• FFastly
• Cloudflare One (Zero Trust)
• Google Cloud Conversational Agents (Dialogflow CX)
• ACAlibaba Cloud
• CDN77
• Atlantic.Net
• Vultr
• TCTencent Cloud
• Latitude.sh