--- 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) ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") AI Verified User in Internet Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/25/2016 "Akamai is the Leader in caching and serving websites" 5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Caching our web properties to make them available to the public en mass. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Sometimes hard to learn the new Property Manager over the Config Manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): Still the leader in providing caching for web properties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? We are serving our websites without have the load on the origin servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Real Estate](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Real Estate") UR Verified User in Real Estate Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/13/2016 "Great CDN with lots of performance improvement tools" 4/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Ease of use and other tools that Akamai provide, such as Ion and Image Converter. They really leverage the concept of faster content delivery by providing great tools to optimize delivery and performance for end user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Control panel is very ugly and sometimes hard to use. It really needs a better interface and become lightweight, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): Akamai has a great support and features. It is easy to configure and provide a lot of features to optimize not only content caching but also end user performance (view Akamai Ion). It is worth the price payed, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? Caching content to provide a always available static website and usage of Akamai WAF to protect our endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/10/2016 "cache static file for the program" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? good at configuration on what need to cache and more training material, It has all the configuration history and easily to rollback and re-configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Haven't found how much time will take when clear the cache one time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): more configuration and training materials online; The GUI is easy to use; Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? cache all the static file used in program, such as images/css/js/html; It's really fast for the web access performance for a global web site Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/13/2016 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mohit B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mohit B.") MB Mohit B. Student Assistant Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/1/2016 "Amazing service" 4/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? It is one of the easiest content delivery network to use. You just pay for the CDN setup some DNS entries and then you are good to go. I really like the easiness of akamai. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? I will say it is not for small startup because you can't customize its features and services, you have to choose from the provided service which are not many. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): I would recommend this service to big companies not to startups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? We are online music application and after using akamai we saw noticeable boost in loading time of web application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Lawrence S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lawrence S.") LS Lawrence S. Senior Software Engineer Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/31/2016 "Very expensive and not enough features" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? They do deliver what they advertise (DDOS protection, CDN, some security) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? The price that you pay for them compared to what you get at other providers is a major negative point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): Compare Akamai to the other content delivery networks out there such as Incapsula and Cloudflare before making your final decision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/12/2016 "Akamai Review(current customer0" 5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Global server presence. Reduces latency. Used for downloads so downloads are expected to be from the closes local server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Kind of expensive to use. The variable pricing model is not conducive to our business. Would prefer to have fixed costs for unlimited use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? 1. Distributing apps globally in the fasted and most relevant way possible. 2. We have benefited from Akamai's uptime promise and download speeds, even under the most demanding conditions, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Juan A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Juan A.") JA Juan A. Senior Software Engineer Marketing and Advertising Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/1/2016 "its ok" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Very powerful, offers a lot of services. I used it mainly for video livestreaming. I think at the time it was one, if not the only one, offering HLS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Sometimes the amount of services can be a little overwhelming. It requires a very technical person to setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): You must research their suite of services to see how to best utilize them given your content infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") AM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/15/2016 "I have used Akamai for Video Delivery as a CDN" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? The performance of Akamai is great and so is the coverage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? They have aggressive sales people and try to auto renew you without telling you when your contract is up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): Make sure you review the contracts in great detail, and you establish a good relationship with your account manager. They tend to change a lot so you may want to have regular meetings with your account manager. Also be careful they auto renew contracts without giving much notice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? Video delivery performance is the problem I am solving, using Akamai speeds this up considerably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/7/2016 "Akamai static content hosting service" 4/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Upload the content once and distribution across the network is fast and seamless. Also the CMS dashboard is very helpful and very easy to use even as a beginner into CDN products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? Nothing much really. The only concern at the time was the cost but Akamai CDN was a good service which justifies the cost to management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): Very good and robust service and infrastructure. Cost may be a little high but it is well worth it in the long term. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? Content hosting/distribution across the US region. Benefit was enormous since the distribution/availability was robust and seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace") EA Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/1/2016 "Akamai Review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? 1) Provided strong technical services 2) Solid technical account management and staff 3) Solid account management 4) Strong partnership orientation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)? 1) Change players on account 2) Consider some costs to be on the premium end Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN): Ensure that you have a strong technical account contact and that you have a strong team. Suggest visiting with Akamai leadership to outline goals/objectives to gain executive support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN) solving and how is that benefiting you? Working to provide greater capacity for Black Friday and holiday workload for retail organization. Using Akamai solutions helped us to exceed our revenue targets for holiday and to ensure no downtime for our eCommerce website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 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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