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Akamai Adaptive Media Delivery (AMD) vs Cloudflare comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai Adaptive Media Deliv...
Ranking in CDN
18th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Cloudflare
Ranking in CDN
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
80
Ranking in other categories
WAN Optimization (4th), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (9th), Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (2nd), Managed DNS (1st), Domain Name System (DNS) Security (5th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the CDN category, the mindshare of Akamai Adaptive Media Delivery (AMD) is 1.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloudflare is 14.7%, down from 21.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CDN Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cloudflare14.7%
Akamai Adaptive Media Delivery (AMD)1.3%
Other84.0%
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Featured Reviews

Sanchit Sinha - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Manager Video Operations and VE DevOps at Sony Pictures Entertainment
Good caching and last-mile delivery with helpful support
We are basically using this product for video streaming. We have our OTT platform, and on that for streaming, we use the solution for our last-mile customers The basic challenge that we were facing with the current implementation was a few technical problems or last-mile problems. From my…
M.A. Faisal - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at bKash Limited
Advanced protection has secured critical web workloads and provides clear traffic visibility
From a security perspective, there remains a security loophole, as some browsers in the market can bypass the Turnstile solution, which requires approximately 40 seconds to do so. From a performance perspective, this is acceptable. We also tried Google reCAPTCHA, and that can also be bypassed. From a security perspective, I would say neither solution is completely secured. Regarding uptime, we have faced a couple of incidents due to Cloudflare in recent years, so I cannot say we receive 100% uptime for our region. We sometimes face challenges, including downtime and other issues. As a result, we are not receiving 100% uptime from Cloudflare's solution. Since most of our customers are in this region, we need alternatives. We need something more competitive than Cloudflare. Unfortunately, in Bangladesh, Cloudflare has three points of presence already, and we cannot find any other solution provider in Bangladesh as an alternative, which presents another challenge. Competitor solutions have more attack signatures, which ensure better security compared to Cloudflare's predefined configurations. Customers do not have options to modify any configuration parameters in Cloudflare, whereas other competitor solutions, such as F5 Distributed Cloud, allow customers to tune configurations according to their requirements. Cloudflare could improve in this area. Additionally, regarding visibility, Cloudflare has static visibility, but they could adopt dynamic graph features for their customers.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The last-mile delivery, which is happening, is great."
"Another reason it's awesome is that you don't need your server to handle every request."
"For businesses that don't have a dedicated security team, I think it's a better product; it's more intuitive for people like us."
"DDoS attacks target unprotected machines. Cloudflare detects and stops these attacks using internal systems. It identifies incoming DDoS attacks, issuing challenges or blocking them immediately."
"The aggressive caching and DDOS mitigation are the most valuable features offered by Cloudflare."
"The overall experience with Cloudflare is positive, with a rating of eight out of ten."
"This solution has improved the security of our organization."
"It is a fast and secure DNS."
"Cloudflare is very straightforward."
 

Cons

"The logging and transparency in the logs and what they are logging could be improved."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Although I think it's quite good, it doesn't provide me with all the features I would expect to have if I were using Imperva."
"Latencies are always a problem."
"The Always Online feature has room for improvement. It seems to work sometimes and not others even with the pro version."
"The product needs to improve its automation."
"The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Cloudflare are a bit on the higher side overall."
"Support response time could be improved."
"Eventually, things go sideways and require fixes when it would have been easier to prevent the issue initially."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"In terms of licensing costs, we don't pay for licensing for Cloudflare. We only establish communication, then for peering, Cloudflare takes care of the cross-connection in different data centers."
"The solution has many features but there are ones that you need to pay for. Sometimes you have to find out which is available for free and which you have to pay for."
"There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."
"The pricing depends on the usage, but the cheapest would be around 5,000 USD a month."
"I give the price a five out of ten."
"The price of the solution is expensive."
"We are using the free version."
"The solution is expensive when compared to other products but offers unlimited bandwidth."
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business47
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise26
 

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Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?
Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GRE tunnels. We have decreased site load times on Mobile 3G from 8 to 1,6 seconds ...
Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?
Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service that offers great redundancy and advanced security with built-in unmetered and ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudflare DNS?
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Cloudflare are a bit on the higher side overall.
 

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