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Leaseweb versus Akamai

Easily compare Leaseweb and Akamai for POP locations, products, pricing, features & support. We hope this helps you better understand the similarities and differences between these content delivery networks.

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Company

Company Leaseweb Akamai
Short profile Leaseweb has been an established player in the (enterprise) hosting market for many years and launched their CDN mid 2013. Leaseweb claims 'the most competitive price in the CDN market' and has a reseller program. Akamai is one of the oldest CDNs and generally considered to be the largest global CDN. They have 'servers everywhere' and a wide range of products and services. The company is actively involved in Let's Encrypt and is pushing HTTP/2 adoption.

Products

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Extra costs
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Product Leaseweb Akamai
Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... Dynamic Site Accelerator
Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) Ion
Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) Download Delivery
Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? Adaptive Media Delivery
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video
Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization Image & Video Manager
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain Edge DNS
WAFWeb Application Firewall Web Application Protector
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. DDoS IP Protection Kona DDoS Defender
Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs Private CDN
Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers EdgeWorkers

Network

How many POP locations do Leaseweb and Akamai have in different parts of the world?

Region Leaseweb Akamai
North America 6 ?
Latin America 0 ?
Europe 6 ?
Russia & CIS 0 ?
Asia excl. China 2 ?
China 0 ?
Oceania 0 ?
Middle East 0 ?
Africa 0 ?

Pricing

Pricing & contract duration Leaseweb Akamai
Minimum contract term One month 12 months
Minimum monthly costs $49 Unknown
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests None Unknown
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred None Unknown
NA/EU traffic (low volume) $0.06 per GB Unknown
APAC traffic (low volume) $0.06 per GB Unknown
LATAM traffic (low volume) $0.06 per GB Unknown

Features

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Extra costs
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Web acceleration Leaseweb Akamai
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. Leaseweb needs 1 business day to get you started Can't sign up and get started. Must talk to sales.
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? Instant
Apex/root domain OK Blog: Root domain on CDN and performanceNo performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com No global Anycast If you also use their Fast DNS for your domain
HTTP/2
HTTP/3 HTTP/3 announcement
WebSockets WebSockets docs
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6?
Compression CDN Guide: CompressionReduce file size for faster delivery Resend from origin or compress on the edge Resend from origin, or compress on edge
Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? HTTP and HTTPS HTTP and HTTPS
Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value?
Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP
Waiting RoomDuring peak traffic, route users to a virtual waiting room Virtual Waiting Room
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin
Cache control - CDN caching Can set max-age override and set 404 caching TTL
Cache control - client caching
Serve Stale CDN Guide: Serve StaleCDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble CDN serves cached if origin is down
Purge CDN Guide: PurgeInvalidate or delete cached objects on CDN Instant most of the time
Purge - capabilities Purge per file and purge all
Analytics Bandwidth, geo distribution and more
Log files One hour delay. Fetch via FTP
API Purge, analytics, configuration
HTTPS & Content Protection Leaseweb Akamai
CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net Free. SNI
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN Free. SNI
Token authentication
Geo blocking
Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content
Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content
IP white/blacklisting

Support

Customer support Leaseweb Akamai
Documentation Yes, public KB Akamai techdocs
Humans 24/7 personal support via telephone and email.