Akamai CDN vs. FlashEdge CDN

FlashEdge CDN

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai CDN	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Akamai Technologies, headquartered in Boston, offers Akamai Connected Cloud, a content delivery network (CDN) with a variety of services used to guarantee application, API, and media delivery.	N/A
FlashEdge CDN	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	FlashEdge CDN is a content delivery network designed to accelerate and secure web applications, media streaming, and API traffic. It provides low-latency, high-availability content distribution with global reach. Key Features: Optimized Performance – Caching and intelligent routing reduce load times and improve user experience. Advanced Security – Includes SSL/TLS encryption, DDoS protection, and compliance with industry standards. Flexible…	N/A

Pricing

Akamai CDN

FlashEdge CDN

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Akamai CDN	FlashEdge CDN
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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FlashEdge CDN list pricing $0.03 per GB for North America/Europe and $0.06 for the rest of the regions (Data Transfer Out from FlashEdge to the internet). Usually provided by the GET, HEAD, and OPTIONS HTTP methods. $0.0065 per 10.000 requests (HTTP and HTTPS). $0.02 per GB for FlashEdge to your origin server (Data Transfer Out to Origin or Inbound Data Transfer). Provided usually by the POST HTTP method. $0.005 per invalidation (cache invalidation request). We provide special pricing and a free trial to those who utilize more than 100 TB of data transfer from FlashEdge to the Internet. Contact us for an individual free trial.

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	Akamai CDN	FlashEdge CDN

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User Ratings
	Akamai CDN	FlashEdge CDN
Likelihood to Recommend	7.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai CDN	FlashEdge CDN
Likelihood to Recommend	Akamai is a superior premium services offering if that's what you need from a CDN. For more typical use cases, we're often more often than not implementing MaxCDN, or integrated CDNs from cloud providers (e.g. CloudFront, Azure CDN, etc). If you find that Akamai's offerings are really what you need, and you are okay paying the premium, the services themselves are great. There's a reason they're used by major enterprises of all sizes, and used for hosting video content from the NFL, etc. Incentivized Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Caching is one of the greatest benefits that Akamai allows for, saving time, money and experiencing the user experience. Knowing they provide DDOS and other attack protection gives you peace of mind. How finely you can tune all of the different settings available to you, from blocking IPs, cache settings, headers, redirects and even handling error statuses . Incentivized Adam Rooney Developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Akamai platforms does not come with an intuitive UI to configure and it requires training for set up. Akami is mostly costly and will be proven very expensive for small organization that are not scaled. Akami activation takes a longer time for a lot of testing with multiple scenarios especially with edge servers scenarios. Incentivized Vaibhav Choksi Senior Product Manger, Digital Commerce Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Their support documents are excellent and provide a lot of useful information for all their services. The only reason I didn't give them a 10 is that the time it takes for them to respond to an issue could be slightly faster. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Akamai offers sophisticated security and defense layers in addition to its content delivery network. Its focus on security is well known and beats offerings from AWS and Azure to punches. It redefined the cloud security market by extending its core offering. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Positive - Akamai vastly reduced the number of content delivery servers needed here, saving money, hardware and management overheads. Negative - I don't think it's a "cheap" option, but also, you get what you pay for and for such a powerful product you don't expect it to be free. Positive - some of the support we have had has been really good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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