Cloudflare vs Akamai: which one does AI recommend?

We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity 10 questions buyers ask about CDN and DDoS protection — 29 answers in total — and counted who got named. Cloudflare is named in 27 of 29 answers (93%); Akamai in 12 (41%).

Cloudflare

93%

named in 27 of 29 answers

ChatGPT: named in 100% of answers

Gemini: named in 80% of answers

Perplexity: named in 100% of answers

Akamai

41%

named in 12 of 29 answers

How they rank against everyone else

Cloudflare

93%

Fastly

45%

Akamai

41%

Bunny.net

24%

Imperva

24%

AWS CloudFront

17%

AWS Shield

17%

KeyCDN

14%

Where does your product land?

Same 10 questions, your product, about a minute. No account.

Counts are mentions in AI answers, not endorsements, measured 2026-09-20. Nobody pays to appear.