# Akamai DNS: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/akamai-dns

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Managed DNS](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/managed-dns/index.md) | 0% | 19 | 0% | 2 |

## What the models said for it

- "Best for larger/more complex enterprise DNS operations: Akamai DNS" (GPT-5.4 mini, Managed DNS)
- "Large enterprise / edge-heavy traffic-management needs? Akamai DNS." (GPT-5.4 mini, Managed DNS)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Akamai DNS, from 3 of the 3 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- akamai.com: 2 (its own site)
- developers.cloudflare.com: 2
- docs.cloud.google.com: 2
- aws.amazon.com: 1
- blog.cloudflare.com: 1
- cloud.google.com: 1
- cloudflare.com: 1
- cloudns.net: 1
- community.spiceworks.com: 1
- gane.ai/index: 1

### Pages cited

- https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns: 2
- https://docs.cloud.google.com/dns/docs/overview: 2
- https://akamai.com/site/en/documents/research-paper/akamai-dns-providing-authoritative-answers-to-the-worlds-queries.pdf: 1
- https://akamai.com/site/es/documents/corporate/akamai-services-descriptions.pdf: 1
- https://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs: 1
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/foundation-dns-launch: 1
- https://cloud.google.com/dns: 1
- https://cloudflare.com/en-gb/application-services/products/dns: 1

## 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.