# Content delivery networks for small business buyers: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "CDN" and as "content delivery network", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a small B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/content-delivery-networks/2026-11/smb

**Standing:** Cloudflare leads with 91% of first choices; verdict consensus. 53 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Cloudflare](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cloudflare/index.md) | 91% | 8% | 75 |
| 2 | [Bunny.net](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/bunny-net/index.md) | 4% | 3% | 68 |
| 3 | [KeyCDN](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/keycdn/index.md) | 2% | 8% | 36 |
| 6 | [Amazon CloudFront](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-cloudfront/index.md) | 0% | 32% | 62 |
| 8 | [Fastly](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/fastly/index.md) | 0% | 40% | 48 |
| 9 | [Gcore](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/gcore/index.md) | 0% | 10% | 10 |
| 29 | [Google Cloud CDN](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/google-cloud-cdn/index.md) | 0% | 42% | 12 |
| 44 | [Akamai](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/akamai/index.md) | 0% | 93% | 28 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 44 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Cloudflare; alternatives Bunny.net
- GPT-5.4 mini: Cloudflare; alternatives Amazon CloudFront, Bunny.net, Fastly
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Cloudflare; alternatives Amazon CloudFront, Azure Front Door, Bunny.net
- Perplexity Sonar: Cloudflare; alternatives Amazon CloudFront, Bunny.net, CDNetworks, Gcore
- Grok 4.20: Cloudflare; alternatives Bunny.net, Fastly, KeyCDN
- Mistral Small: Cloudflare; alternatives Bunny.net, KeyCDN
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Cloudflare; alternatives Amazon CloudFront, Bunny.net
- Llama 4 Maverick: Cloudflare; alternatives Bunny.net, KeyCDN, StackPath
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Cloudflare; alternatives Bunny.net, Netlify, Vercel
- Kimi K2: Cloudflare; alternatives Amazon CloudFront, Bunny.net
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Cloudflare; alternatives Amazon CloudFront, Bunny.net, Fastly
- MiniMax M2.5: Cloudflare; alternatives Bunny.net, CDN77, KeyCDN
- GPT-6 Luna: Cloudflare; alternatives Amazon CloudFront
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Cloudflare; alternatives Amazon CloudFront, BlazingCDN, Bunny.net

## Sources the answers cite

65 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- blog.blazingcdn.com: 24 answers, 38 citations
- cloudflare.com: 23 answers, 44 citations
- fastly.com: 22 answers, 36 citations
- ioriver.io: 18 answers, 23 citations
- cdnetworks.com: 18 answers, 20 citations
- github.com: 17 answers, 22 citations
- bunny.net: 14 answers, 33 citations
- edgeone.ai: 14 answers, 19 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://cdnetworks.com/blog/web-performance/best-cdn-providers (16 answers)
- https://affmaven.com/cdn-providers (14 answers)
- https://bestseo.sg/blog/best-cdn-providers (13 answers)
- https://broadbandnow.com/guides/CDN-Providers (12 answers)
- https://github.com/HariSekhon/Knowledge-Base/blob/main/cdn.md (12 answers)
- https://sourceforge.net/software/cdn/for-small-business (12 answers)
- https://spotsaas.com/list/content-delivery-network--cdn--software/for-small-business?page=-24 (10 answers)
- https://fastly.com/blog/best-cdn-providers (9 answers)
- https://techradar.com/news/best-cdn-providers (9 answers)
- https://cloudflare.com/plans (8 answers)

## Warned against

- Akamai: 26 of 28 labels negative. "Akamai and CloudFront are positioned for global enterprises with heavy compliance demands and are generally not ideal for small businesses" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- Fastly: 19 of 48 labels negative. "Avoid: Enterprise-grade CDNs like Akamai, AWS CloudFront, or Fastly at this stage" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Amazon CloudFront: 20 of 62 labels negative. "CloudFront's configurations require at least some basic knowledge of CDNs, making it less beginner-friendly" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- Edgio: 6 of 6 labels negative. "Why to avoid: Edgio focuses primarily on enterprise media delivery, streaming, and large-scale security." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Cloudflare at 91%.

- Cloudflare: 85% to 91%, +6. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 1 of 44, unchanged.
- Bunny.net: 9% to 4%, −5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 2 of 44, unchanged.
- KeyCDN: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 3 of 44, unchanged.
- Amazon CloudFront: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 6 of 44, unchanged.
- Fastly: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 17 → 8 of 44.
- Gcore: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 7 → 9 of 44.
- Google Cloud CDN: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 42 → 29 of 44.
- Akamai: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 44 of 44, unchanged.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.