--- title: Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) Reviews meta\_title: 'Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 49 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 49 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Hosting url: https://www.g2.com/categories/hosting --- ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cloudflare Application Security and Performance") Cloudflare Application Security and Performance 4.5/5(685) ](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) [ ![Amazon CloudFront](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon CloudFront") Amazon CloudFront 4.4/5(192) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudfront/reviews) [ ![Google Cloud CDN](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud CDN") Google Cloud CDN 4.4/5(110) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-cdn/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-content-delivery-solutions-cdn/competitors/alternatives) # Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) but has limited features. Are you part of the Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Akamai's Content Delivery Network (CDN) solutions are designed to enhance the speed, reliability, and security of digital content delivery across the globe. By leveraging Akamai's extensive network of servers, businesses can ensure that their websites, applications, and media content are delivered swiftly and efficiently to users, regardless of their location. Key Features and Functionality: - App & API Performance: Akamai offers solutions like API Acceleration to improve the performance and reliability of APIs at scale, and Ion to deliver enhanced user experiences for websites dynamically and efficiently. - Media Delivery: Services such as Adaptive Media Delivery ensure consistent, high-quality online video streaming at massive scale, while Download Delivery provides flawless distribution of large files globally. - Edge Applications: Tools like EdgeWorkers enable developers to deploy custom code at the edge, closer to users, enhancing performance and reducing latency. - Security: Akamai integrates robust security measures, including web application firewalls and DDoS mitigation, to protect content and applications from evolving threats. Primary Value and User Solutions: Akamai's CDN solutions address critical challenges faced by businesses in delivering digital content. By distributing content across a vast network of edge servers, Akamai reduces latency, minimizes the risk of downtime, and ensures a seamless user experience. This is particularly vital for industries like media and entertainment, gaming, and e-commerce, where user engagement and satisfaction are directly tied to content delivery performance. Additionally, Akamai's integrated security features safeguard against cyber threats, providing businesses with a comprehensive solution for content delivery and protection. * * * Seller [Akamai Technologies](https://www.g2.com/sellers/akamai-technologies) Discussions [Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) Community](https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-content-delivery-solutions-cdn/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Dawn Wellhausen Show More ## Typical Contract Price Pricing provided by BetterCloud and others. $$k - $$k Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing](/auth/linkedin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g2.com%2Fproducts%2Fakamai-content-delivery-solutions-cdn%2Freviews%3Fpage%3D3) ## User Insights Average based on 49 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) AR Antonio R. Analista de Gestion TIC Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/24/2016 "The leader in the CDN business" 3/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Akamai is the global leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, making the Internet fast, reliable and secure for its customers. It's one of the most reliable CDN's in the market and they consistently perform at or near the top in every region of the world Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Users don't have granular control over the security policies like on other, newer CDN services, however this can be a good thing if you dont want to manage it on your own or dont have the expertise to do so Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): On a large scale Akamai is really great for larger quantities of data, but if you are not there yet you can use other CDNs like CloudFlare Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? We use the caching technology in one of our websites and it is really good, so if the server ever goes down, users get to experience a cached version of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Bharadwaj (Brad) C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bharadwaj (Brad) C.") BC Bharadwaj (Brad) C. Director Of Engineering/Head of Reliability Engineering Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/7/2016 "Best Tool to keep your CDN Up and Running" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Provides a great insight on how your data is consumed. Provides your Commerce application a personalized and optimized experience to the customers. They are the best in business with exceptional service. Provides tools that can overcome mobile application performance. And, its quite easy to set it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? They are not cheap; especially if you want to consult with them. And, some of their services require quite a good technical person. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): If you are looking for a CDN management tool that has reporting features, Akamai is a great tool. It provides a great set of tools for mobile experience which is where eCommerce is heading to. You will easily claim the fee with a much more stable/optimized application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? Using it on the eCommerce platform which can provide a customizable and optimized experience to customers using both Desktop and mobile platform. It helped us get an insight of the customer base that accesses various categories/pages at different times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Sports](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Sports") US Verified User in Sports Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/30/2016 "Reliable, robust and helpful" 4/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? First, a disclaimer: I am a product/project manager, not an expert in CDNs and cloud hosting, so I cannot comment on deeply technical aspects of the Akamai ecosystem. But having used Akamai as a CDN on several highly-trafficked global websites, I have always had a good experience of Akamai as a robust, highly sophisticated system to ensure resilient global delivery. I particularly appreciate the customer service provided from onboarding to operations, and the commitment to customer success. There is a structured process to take clients through the service, to ensure that configuration is managed correctly, and that all possible optimisations are adopted. I have also found the Akamai online portal easy to use to execute simple configurations and purge the Akamai cache - simple enough for non-technical users such as myself to feel they have control over content appearing around the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? I have had no specific problems with Akamai. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Akamai to deliver web content to large global audiences, taking the load off our origin servers and ensuring efficient, controlled content distribution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") UI Verified User in Internet Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/31/2016 "Akamai Audience Analytics (Video Analytics)" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Can be configured, but takes a lot of time to figure out how - not as easy as they try to make it seem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Way more complicated to set up analytics then it should be. Still seems not very advanced; especially when asking specific questions about the product in trying to configure as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): Akamai can be useful; but the implementation can be tricky so need to be very hands on with requirements and making sure everything is implemented as needed. At times, need to really be pushy as the vendor may try to convince you everything is ok. That said, it feels all video analytics tools are still in the early stages - so take your pick depending on needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? Video views. Can get video views IF set up as needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Anthony d.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anthony d.") AD Anthony d. Senior Account Manager Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/1/2016 "Akamai is probably the best head to toe software/solution available" 5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? No shortage of services or programs offered. Akamai can truly deliver a customizable experience for everyone, business and individuals alike. For e-commerce sites I highly recommend it as they are able to deliver what I haven't really seen from any other vendors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Our support wait times were a little longer than they were from other smaller vendors, but I suspect that's because the level of investment we had with Akamai was smaller than usual. For what we paid though I would still say that it was a good value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): I have only used this in an e-commerce perspective but I would say that Akamai is really great. The client I was working with especially had trouble with their mobile e commerce site (which if you've ever worked on one, it's a pretty big pain to go from desktop to mobile.) Akamai had a whole suits of services offered tailored specifically to mobile which, for my client, was a boon. Their mobile site was slow and clunky and Akamai was able to optimize everything so that we were running much quicker with lower latency. The impressiveness was in how quickly and easily we were able to simplify the scale. If we were to pay an individual to do it for us it would've taken a long time and we would've lost out on potential revenue in the down time. Akamai in that sense paid for itself pretty quickly in terms of non-lost investment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Broadcast Media](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Broadcast Media") AB Verified User in Broadcast Media Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/1/2016 "Solid and Robust offering" 5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? My favorite product in their suite is the Property Manager, which is the latest version of their configuration management portal for managing edge caching configurations. In previous versions of the Luna Control panel, many options were not exposed to end users and required working with customer care to get them added to the configuration. In property manager you can control and tune hundreds of settings, its very rare we have needed to loop in ccare for config changes. As a caching solution in front of an S3 or ec2 origin, cloudfront has maybe 20% of the options compared to Akamai. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? When you do need to loop in professional services/advanced consulting, it is not cheap. Configurations can also take quite awhile to propagate (2-4 hours). API availability has been very poor thus far, we would love to automate generating configurations, and i believe there are initiatives around releasing these API's to public soon, it has just been slow to come (we've been asking for a couple years). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): Hopefully you are able to understand your expected traffic at Akamai's edge, so you can negotiate the best price/GB based on what tier you land in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Edward F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Edward F.") EF Edward F. Lead Scientist Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/31/2016 "Akamai helped our company prepare for an increase in traffic that we couldn't have done alone" 4/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Akamai does CDN very well, we were expecting a lot of web traffic to come through to our healthcare video website and didn't have the capacity at the time to handle that. We paired up with Akamai and made use of their capability to offload delivery of video, images, etc. to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? The logs and dashboard weren't very easy to use, but we were able to get by with a little help from customer service, reading documentation, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): Very useful CDN that has been around for a long time and has a proven track record with many high profile companies still using them today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Taylor P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Taylor P.") TP Taylor P. Cloud Architect Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/18/2016 "The most recognizable CDN" 4/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Akamai has a large network of edge servers (they claim to be within 1 hop of 85% of users), and they do provide very fast load times to end users. They also provide some useful analytics about traffic and site visitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Their console isn't very intuitive, and they are a little slow to provision resources behind the scenes - certificates can take days, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): Akamai is a good CDN, but they are not very agile. You definitely have to plan out changes to your properties in advance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? As a good CDN, they reduce load on our servers and speed up delivery to the end user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Online Media](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Online Media") UO Verified User in Online Media Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/31/2016 "Great resource for hosting large Documents and images for web application" 4/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Akamai provides a single location for storing and proving fast easy access for our millions of large documents and images needed for a web application. Having them in a CDN allowed us to almost forget about them and needing to move them to storage and back them up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? We had initial problems with users having firewall issues accessing akaimi servers when requesting documents, and took a while for our network team to resolve this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): Akamai solved a lot of storage and backup problems for us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Cecelia D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cecelia D.") CD Cecelia D. Developer Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/29/2016 "CDN with a Reputation" 5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Akamai is a trusted name in content delivery, and well known for their other products. Using their CDN services just feels good. Of course, it does not disappoint. Their UI is intuitive, and easy to use in general. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? The UI seems a little outdated in terms of styling. Even with a solid product, they can't hang in terms of UI design with Cloudflare and the like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): USE THEIR OTHER PRODUCTS. They integrate seamlessly, so why not? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? CDN services! It's nice to use Akamai if you also want performance monitoring and the like.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-content-delivery-solutions-cdn/pricing) ## How much does Akamai Content Delivery... cost? Data powered by [BetterCloud](https://www.bettercloud.com). Estimated Price ### $$k - $$k Per Year Based on data from 3 purchases. 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