Akamai
One of the largest and oldest CDNs, offering delivery, media and security products under negotiated enterprise contracts.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- No / not documented
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Provider type
- Edge platform. A CDN inside a larger platform: WAF and bot management, edge compute and enterprise support contracts.
- Billing
- contract
- Open source
- No
- Website
- www.akamai.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Reported spend only
Pricing
No calculated bill. Reported spend describes other buyers, not a quote for your workload. How to read these estimates.
No public price; sold through annual contracts. Reported typical spend: $84,900/yr (source in notes).
No public CDN list price; akamai.com/pricing says "Contact Sales" for delivery and security products (only Akamai Cloud compute is publicly priced). typical_annual_usd is Vendr's median for Akamai Technologies (vendr.com/marketplace/akamai-technologies, Oct 2026): $84,900/yr, observed range $34,362-$850,200 across 37 purchases. This covers all Akamai products, not only CDN.
What companies report paying
What other customers have paid for Akamai, with sources. Their usage, features and discounts may differ from yours; these are not quotes.
- $84,900/yr · Vendr median across all Akamai purchases (CDN plus security products, not CDN-only); range $34,362-$850,200; 'based on data from 37 purchases' (page header says 46 deals handled); avg savings 16%; page 'Last updated: February 2026'
“Median buyer pays $84,900 per year Based on data from 37 purchases, with buyers saving 16% on average. Median: $84,900 $34,362 $850,200 Low High”
Vendr purchase data, Oct 2026
Managed alternatives
At 20,000 GB egress / month, 500M requests / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
No managed cost estimate is available for this option at the selected usage.
- Cloudflare: $240/yr estimatedPublished ratesPer-domain website proxy pricing; not a general-purpose unlimited media CDN. Check content terms and multiply by the domains that need Pro.
- BelugaCDN: $1,920/yr estimatedPublished rates
- Bunny CDN: $2,400/yr estimatedPublished rates
- Gcore CDN: $2,554/yr estimatedPublished rates
- KeyCDN: $9,600/yr estimatedPublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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