Akamai CDN alternatives
10 CDN providers compared against Akamai CDN on egress per GB. Akamai CDN is kept in the table and highlighted, because it is the number everything else here is measured against.
List prices checked
Ranked by egress per GB
Cheapest first. "vs Akamai CDN" shows how many times cheaper or dearer each one is on the same axis.
| # | Service | Provider | egress per GB | vs Akamai CDN | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare CDN | Cloudflare | Free | — | Unmetered CDN bandwidth on every plan including free |
| 2 | Bunny CDN | bunny.net | $0.010 | 8.5× cheaper | 14-day trial, then a $1 monthly minimum |
| 3 | CDN77 | CDN77 | $0.025 | 3.4× cheaper | 14-day trial with 1 TB of traffic |
| 4 | CacheFly | CDN77 | $0.030 | 2.8× cheaper | None |
| 5 | Gcore CDN | Gcore | $0.040 | 2.1× cheaper | 1 TB per month on the free CDN plan |
| 6 | KeyCDN | KeyCDN | $0.040 | 2.1× cheaper | $10 of trial credit; $4 monthly minimum thereafter |
| 7 | Google Cloud CDN | $0.080 | 1.1× cheaper | None | |
| 8 | Azure Front Door | Microsoft | $0.081 | same | None |
| 9 | AWS CloudFront | Amazon Web Services | $0.085 | same | 1 TB egress and 10M requests per month, always free |
| 10 | Akamai CDNyou are here | Akamai | $0.085 | — | None |
| 11 | Fastly | Fastly | $0.120 | 1.4× dearer | 100 GB of bandwidth per month, permanently free |
Source: Akamai pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.
Questions
- What is the best alternative to Akamai CDN in 2026?
- On egress per GB, Bunny CDN is the cheapest alternative — roughly 8.5× cheaper than Akamai CDN. Cheapest is not automatically best: check the free tier, the region list, and what each one does not charge for before switching.
- How many alternatives to Akamai CDN are there?
- 10 in this dataset, all CDN providers with published list prices. The table ranks every one of them on egress per GB with Akamai CDN highlighted in place, so you can see exactly where it sits rather than taking a "top 5" on trust.
- Is switching from Akamai CDN worth it?
- It depends on which axis dominates your bill. Content delivery networks cache your files in points of presence near your users. Almost the entire bill is data transfer out, so the per-gigabyte egress rate — which varies by more than 100x across this category — decides what you pay. Run your own volumes through the comparison pages linked below before migrating — a provider that is cheaper per unit can still be more expensive for your particular usage shape.
- Are there free alternatives to Akamai CDN?
- 7 of them publish a free tier — they are marked in the table. Check whether each is permanent or a 12-month trial; the two look identical on a pricing page and are very different a year in.