Alternatives to Akamai
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If you're comparing Akamai with other companies in Cloud Infrastructure and Networking, start here. These are the 36 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
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Cloud Infrastructure: Akamai's main category
19 companies sit alongside Akamai here, busiest first.
- Amazon Web Services#1 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and…
- 190 stories in the last 90 days
- Google Cloud#3 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google…
- 82 stories in the last 90 days
- Cloudflare#12 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application…
- 85 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Networking
- CoreWeave#14 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
CoreWeave is an American AI cloud provider headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey. It operates data centres offering GPU-accelerated compute, storage and networking for training…
- 46 stories in the last 90 days
- Microsoft#2 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
- DigitalOcean#9 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
DigitalOcean is an American cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2011 by brothers Ben and Moisey Uretsky with Jeff Carr, Alec Hartman and Mitch Wainer. It offers simple…
- 21 stories in the last 90 days
- Vultr#13 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Vultr is a privately held cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2014 and headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. It offers cloud compute, bare metal servers, cloud GPUs for…
- 27 stories in the last 90 days
- Equinix#15 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Equinix is a global digital infrastructure company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It operates International Business Exchange (IBX) colocation data…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
- OVHcloud#11 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
OVHcloud is a French cloud provider offering bare-metal dedicated servers, public cloud, private cloud based on VMware and other hypervisors, web hosting, domains and managed…
- 22 stories in the last 90 days
- Fastly#20 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Fastly is an American edge cloud platform company founded in 2011 by Artur Bergman and headquartered in San Francisco. It provides a programmable content delivery network, edge…
- 29 stories in the last 90 days
- Lambda#18 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Lambda is an AI infrastructure company that provides GPU cloud computing for training and running AI models, including on-demand instances, reserved clusters and private cloud…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- Rackspace Technology#16 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Rackspace Technology is a US managed cloud and IT services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. It designs, migrates and operates workloads on AWS…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Scaleway#19 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Scaleway is a French cloud provider headquartered in Paris and owned by the Iliad Group. It offers public cloud infrastructure including virtual instances, bare-metal servers, GPU…
- 4 stories in the last 90 days
- Alibaba Cloud#6 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun, is the cloud computing business of Alibaba Group, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Hangzhou, China. It provides public cloud…
Evidence is still building for Alibaba Cloud.
- Hetzner#17 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Hetzner is a German web hosting and cloud infrastructure provider offering dedicated servers, Hetzner Cloud virtual servers, storage, colocation and web hosting at relatively low…
Evidence is still building for Hetzner.
- Huawei#7 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Huawei is a Chinese technology company that makes telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment, consumer devices, cloud services, data storage and AI processors. Its…
Evidence is still building for Huawei.
Also in Networking
- IBM#5 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…
Evidence is still building for IBM.
- Oracle#4 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It…
Evidence is still building for Oracle.
- Tencent Cloud#8 leader in Cloud InfrastructureCompare with Akamai
Tencent Cloud is the cloud computing business of Tencent Holdings, the Chinese technology company headquartered in Shenzhen. It provides infrastructure and platform services…
Evidence is still building for Tencent Cloud.
Networking
17 companies sit alongside Akamai here, busiest first. 2 others are listed in an earlier section.
- Cisco#1 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Cisco is a US networking and security company founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells enterprise, data centre and service provider networking…
- 50 stories in the last 90 days
- NVIDIA#18 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
NVIDIA is a semiconductor and computing platform company that designs GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for AI, data centres, gaming, professional visualisation and automotive…
- 55 stories in the last 90 days
- HPE#2 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services…
- 33 stories in the last 90 days
- Megaport#17 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Megaport is a Network as a Service (NaaS) provider that offers on-demand, software-defined connectivity between data centres, public clouds and enterprise locations. Its portfolio…
- 23 stories in the last 90 days
- Infoblox#15 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Infoblox is a US networking and security company specialising in DDI, the combination of DNS, DHCP and IP address management, and DNS-based security. Its products include NIOS…
- 16 stories in the last 90 days
- F5#9 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
F5 is an American application delivery and security company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It provides load balancing, web application and API…
- 6 stories in the last 90 days
- Cato Networks#13 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Cato Networks is an Israeli networking and security company founded in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz and headquartered in Tel Aviv. It sells the Cato SASE Cloud platform…
- 7 stories in the last 90 days
- Broadcom#19 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Broadcom is a US semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, formed when Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016. It…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Arista Networks#3 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Arista Networks is a US networking company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It sells high-speed Ethernet switches and routers running its EOS…
Evidence is still building for Arista Networks.
- Aviatrix#16 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Aviatrix is a US cloud networking and network security company founded in 2014. Its platform provides multicloud networking, cloud firewalling and egress security, and network…
Evidence is still building for Aviatrix.
- Ciena#8 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Ciena is a US networking systems and software company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Hanover, Maryland. It sells optical networking equipment including WaveLogic coherent…
Evidence is still building for Ciena.
- Ericsson#5 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Ericsson is a Swedish telecommunications equipment and services company founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson and headquartered in Stockholm. It supplies mobile network…
Evidence is still building for Ericsson.
- Extreme Networks#7 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Extreme Networks is an American networking company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina. It provides enterprise wired and wireless networking…
Evidence is still building for Extreme Networks.
- Fortinet#10 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Fortinet is a US cybersecurity company known for its FortiGate next-generation firewalls, built on its FortiOS operating system and custom security processors. Its Fortinet…
Evidence is still building for Fortinet.
- Nokia#4 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Nokia is a Finnish telecommunications equipment and technology company that supplies mobile, IP, optical and fixed network infrastructure to communications service providers and…
Evidence is still building for Nokia.
- Ubiquiti#14 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Ubiquiti is a US networking technology company founded in 2003 by Robert Pera and headquartered in New York City. It designs networking hardware and software under the UniFi brand…
Evidence is still building for Ubiquiti.
- Versa Networks#20 leader in NetworkingCompare with Akamai
Versa Networks is a US networking and security company founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells VersaONE, a universal SASE platform that combines…
Evidence is still building for Versa Networks.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with Akamai. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Akamai's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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