6 categories · RankedAkamai
Akamai is a cybersecurity and cloud computing company that provides services for delivering and protecting business applications online, including content delivery, API management, managed Kubernetes, object storage and SASE · akamai.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Ranked 44 of 44 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Cloudflare is first at 91%.
Cloudflare is first at 93%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cloudflare is first at 69%.
Why models recommend it
“Browser security platforms/extensions: Akamai (formerly Menlo), LayerX, or similar—often lighter, with better zero-day protection”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
“Choose Akamai for very large global enterprises, media, software downloads, and demanding compliance requirements.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Browser Security Platforms (e.g., Akamai, dope.security) | Lightweight agents that secure *all* browsers and apps”Kimi K2 · Negative question · alternative
“Choose Akamai if you are a large enterprise requiring peak global security, mass-scale live video streaming”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Skip Akamai for now: While Akamai is an enterprise titan, its cost and complexity are usually overkill for mid-sized B2B companies”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · warning
“Avoid Akamai unless you have $10k+/mo budget”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
“You generally do not need to *avoid* major providers like Cloudflare, Akamai, or Fastly, but you should be cautious about their pricing models”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Deepest global footprint, enterprise legacy security capabilities, massive scale. | Large enterprise requirements... extreme enterprise compliance needs.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Akamai, over the 167 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 143 | 84 | View → | |
| 130 | 3 | View → | |
| 126 | 1 | View → | |
| 58 | 4 | View → | |
| 54 | 0 | View → | |
| 25 | 0 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → | |
| 22 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Akamai →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Akamai's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- business
- Price stated
- transparent pricing across every data center
- Free plan or trial
- Free trials; US$100 in credits
- Customers named
- Dun & Bradstreet, GoVeda
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 142 of the 167 answers that named Akamai and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
355 of the 376 domain citations in answers naming Akamai came from a third party's page. Twenty-one were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Webinar or virtual event | 7 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 6 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 5 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 2 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 2 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page akamai.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.