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Your traffic

Choose a workload. We’ll estimate traffic and requests for you.

Estimated monthly costs

USD per month, before tax. Load balancing and unpriced extras are excluded.

What’s included?

Estimates cover cacheable content. Origin and optional services are added only when you enter their rates. Plans differ in features and coverage; check their terms before buying.

Advanced settings
Split traffic between regions

Percentages must total 100%. The same split applies to bytes and requests. CloudFront charges by serving edge location; this is an approximation. Shared free allowances are allocated proportionally.

Origin and optional services

Paid tiers start with this workload; estimates do not include other account traffic. Enter your own effective rates after origin allowances. Reads use request misses; egress uses byte fill. Functions assume one invocation per viewer request. Zero leaves an extra out of the estimate; it does not mean your origin is free.

Compare a quote you received

This is your quote, not a published provider price. Use an effective rate for the selected traffic mix; tiers, included usage and commitments need to be reflected in your inputs. Sharing a scenario includes your quote details.

Presets are starting assumptions, not measured traffic. Video assumes one rendition and segment GETs; playlists, retries and extra audio tracks add requests. Fill is a byte ratio, not a request cache-hit rate. GB = 1 billion bytes; Google bills GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes; CloudFront estimates use binary GB as a billing assumption.

Overview

Akamai combines content delivery, security and edge computing for large websites, applications and media services. Delivery products use a distributed edge network; cloud compute regions are a separate part of its infrastructure.

Choose the delivery and security products your workload needs and check what the CDN plan includes.

Media Services Live 4 retires on December 31, 2026. Existing MSL4 streams will be disabled on or soon after that date. Move affected live-origin workflows to Media Services Live 5, powered by Harmonic, and confirm the required contract and migration in Akamai Control Center. This deadline applies to MSL4, rather than the entire delivery platform.

Network

  • Akamai lists 4,400+ edge PoPs in 130+ countries on its infrastructure page. Edge PoPs and cloud compute regions are different infrastructure.
  • China CDN has been discontinued. Akamai’s register dates the discontinuation to July 6, 2026. Confirm alternative China application and API delivery arrangements with the account team.

Features

FeatureSupported
Web application firewall✓ Supported
Bot protection◐ Partial
DDoS protection✓ Supported
Rate limiting✓ Supported
HTTP/3 (QUIC)✓ Supported
TLS 1.3✓ Supported
Tiered caching✓ Supported
Origin shield◐ Partial
Instant cache purge✓ Supported
Serve stale while refreshingNot listed
Serve stale on origin errors✓ Supported
Image optimization✓ Supported
On-demand video✓ Supported
Live video✓ Supported
Digital rights managementNot listed
HLS / DASH packagingNot listed
WebSockets✓ Supported
Signed URLs✓ Supported
Edge compute✓ Supported
Edge functions✓ Supported
Key-value storage✓ Supported
Configuration API✓ Supported
Real-time logs◐ Partial
Log export✓ Supported
Terraform provider✓ Supported

✓ Supported · Partial: limited or separate-product support · ✗ Not supported · Not listed: unconfirmed. Some features need a separate product or plan.

  • Security: App & API Protector supplies WAF rules, DDoS controls and rate policies. Advanced bot defenses require the appropriate product or contract.
  • Programmable edge: EdgeWorkers runs JavaScript; EdgeKV supplies key-value data. Both require a compatible delivery contract.
  • Delivery: HTTP/3, TLS 1.3, WebSockets, ESI and tiered caching are configurable behaviors. Cloud Wrapper adds regional origin caches for compatible products.
  • Images and access: Image and Video Manager creates optimized image variants; authentication tokens protect content URLs. Fast Purge invalidates or deletes cached objects.
  • Media: Adaptive Media Delivery distributes prepared live and on-demand HTTP streams. Evaluate packaging, DRM and ingest separately.
  • Monitoring: DataStream2 exports request logs in batches. mPulse separately measures real-user application performance.

Pricing

  • Obtain a delivery quote with the applicable traffic, regions and product terms before comparing CDN costs. This handbook does not yet model an Akamai delivery tariff.
  • Akamai’s public cloud pricing describes compute, storage and networking products. Those transfer rates are not interchangeable with CDN delivery prices.

Developer tools

  • An official Terraform provider supports infrastructure-as-code workflows.
  • APIs and the Akamai CLI support configuration and deployment automation.
  • Check product-specific API and contract permissions before building a workflow.

For MSL4 workflows, follow the MSL5 migration guide and test the replacement before December 31, 2026.

When it fits

  • Large delivery workloads needing broad edge coverage.
  • Teams able to evaluate delivery, security and edge products together.
  • Organizations that want infrastructure-as-code configuration with the official Terraform provider.

Before you choose

  • Workloads that depend on the discontinued China CDN service without a replacement arrangement.
  • Projects that need an immediately calculable CDN price: obtain a delivery quote and its applicable terms before comparing costs.

Product updates

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