Akamai Edge DNS vs. Cloudflare DNS

Akamai Edge DNS

7 Reviews and Ratings

Cloudflare DNS

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai Edge DNS	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Akamai Edge DNS is a managed DNS touting high availability and strong DDoS protection, deployable as a primary or secondary DNS solution.	N/A
Cloudflare DNS	N/A	N/A	Cloudflare DNS is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service that provides the industry’s fastest response times, unparalleled redundancy, and advanced security. By leveraging Cloudflare’s global Anycast network across 330+ cities, it ensures that DNS queries are resolved with ultra-low latency while remaining resilient against infrastructure outages and targeted attacks.	N/A

Pricing

Akamai Edge DNS

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Pricing Offerings
Akamai Edge DNS	Cloudflare DNS
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

No setup fee

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Best Alternatives
	Akamai Edge DNS	Cloudflare DNS
Small Businesses	Amazon Route 53 Score8.8 out of 10	Amazon Route 53 Score8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Azure DNS Score8.9 out of 10	Azure DNS Score8.9 out of 10
Enterprises	Amazon Route 53 Score8.8 out of 10	Amazon Route 53 Score8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Akamai Edge DNS	Cloudflare DNS
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai Edge DNS	Cloudflare DNS
Likelihood to Recommend	Akamai Well suited when you have a high-turnover staffing model or can't get everyone trained on security best practices. Also well suited as a starting place for getting a zero-trust network up and running. A tool like Fast DNS gives you a web based portal to see traffic analysis, too, which for us was very important. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Cloudflare No answers on this topic
Pros	Akamai DDoS protection Starting place for a zero-trust network Protection for dns spoofing Better protection for our remote employees Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Cloudflare No answers on this topic
Cons	Akamai Many features and knowing which ones suit our business case Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Cloudflare No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Akamai Akamai wins hands down because of their distributed model (their worldwide CDN which is top notch). We've trusted them for other hosting and media distribution and it was a natural to use them for DNS. Feature wise, they are better, for our use cases, then either Google Cloud or Azure Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Cloudflare No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Akamai Fast DNS is core to our protection model, so while is an IT budget line item, is used to protect the entire org. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Cloudflare No answers on this topic
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