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Content delivery networks for enterprise buyers

Asked as “CDN”, and as “content delivery network”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 43 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.

Standing

Cloudflare

Clear leader

53% of first choices, clear leader.

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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

Small business

Cloudflare90%Clear leaderStanding →Mid-market

Cloudflare80%Clear leaderStanding →Enterprise

Cloudflare53%Clear leaderThis page

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.

ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant

Cloudflare15%60endorsed leader

Akamai7%57endorsed leader

BlazingCDN10%10accepted challenger

Amazon CloudFront22%51accepted challenger

Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate

Bunny.net46%13criticized challenger

Fastly20%49accepted challenger

Google Cloud CDN11%18accepted challenger

Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.

Head to head

Cloudflare vs Bunny.net Cloudflare vs Fastly Bunny.net vs Fastly

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default

Negative label rate →

Accepted challengerEndorsed leader

0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative70%

Key

Cloudflare53%

Akamai35%

BlazingCDN7%

Amazon CloudFront5%

Fastly0%

Google Cloud CDN0%

Bunny.net0%

02What they warned about

Eight of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2 and GLM 4.7 FlashX changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.

Amazon CloudFront

22%

11 of 51 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 1 hard negative

“Avoid metered per-GB vendors (CloudFront, Fastly, Bunny) unless predictability isn't your primary constraint” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt

Cloudflare

15%

9 of 60 labels negative · 9 of 12 models

“**Avoid or be cautious** with CDNs that have centralized control planes (e.g., Cloudflare) unless you have robust multi-CDN and out-of-band runbooks in place.” Mistral Small, negative prompt

Fastly

20%

10 of 49 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 2 hard negative

“Avoid metered-only providers (Fastly, standard CloudFront) if unpredictable traffic spikes are a concern.” Kimi K2, budget prompt

Bunny.net

46%

6 of 13 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 3 hard negative

“Consumer/Prosumer Tier "No-SLA" CDNs (Avoid for Critical Systems) ... entry-level providers like Bunny.net, KeyCDN” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

62 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 828 links across 249 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

blog.blazingcdn.com

vendor site · BlazingCDN46 answers · 184 citations · 10 models

yewsafe.com

25 answers · 42 citations · 8 models

fastly.com

vendor site · Fastly23 answers · 34 citations · 10 models

edgenext.com

vendor site · EdgeNext21 answers · 25 citations · 8 models

gartner.com

12 answers · 17 citations · 5 models

technologymatch.com

12 answers · 13 citations · 4 models

windowsforum.com

10 answers · 15 citations · 7 models

linkedin.com

10 answers · 10 citations · 6 models

techradar.com

10 answers · 10 citations · 6 models

cloudflare.com

vendor site · Cloudflare9 answers · 9 citations · 5 models

g2.com

8 answers · 8 citations · 6 models

serverpicks.net

8 answers · 8 citations · 3 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/best-enterprise-cdn-providers-compared

24 answers · 9 models

yewsafe.com/blog/1776223963865

23 answers · 8 models

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/the-best-cdns-in-2026-compared-by-speed-price-and…

22 answers · 8 models

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/top-cdn-providers-2025-an-expert-guide-to-types-t…

19 answers · 10 models

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/top-cdn-providers-2025-an-expert-guide-to-types-t…

14 answers · 9 models

fastly.com/blog/best-cdn-providers

13 answers · 8 models

technologymatch.com/blog/cloudflare-vs-akamai-vs-fastly-cdn-and-edge-security

12 answers · 4 models

edgenext.com/resources/blog/best-cdn-providers-2026-top-global-content-deli…

11 answers · 6 models

gartner.com/reviews/market/edge-distribution-platforms

11 answers · 5 models

techradar.com/news/best-cdn-providers

10 answers · 6 models

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.

ModelDirect“What is the best CDN for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which content delivery network would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade CDNs and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best CDN for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a CDN. What should we look at?”Negative“Which CDNs should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”

Claude Haiku 4.5Akamai, Cloudflare

Three alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Azure CDN, Google Cloud CDN

Akamai, CloudflareHeld

Three alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Azure CDN, Fastly

Akamai

Three alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly

BlazingCDN

Two alternatives

Akamai, Cloudflare

against: Amazon CloudFrontno first choiceagainst: Amazon CloudFront, Azure, Cloudflare, Fastly

GPT-5.4 miniCloudflare

Three alternatives

Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly

CloudflareHeld

Two alternatives

Google Cloud CDN, Google Media CDN

no first choice

Five alternatives

Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud CDN / Media CDN

Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflareno first choicenothing named

Gemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare

Three alternatives

Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly

against: EdgioCloudflareHeld

Three alternatives

Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly

Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly

One alternative

Amazon CloudFront

Cloudflare

Three alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare One, IO River

against: Akamai, FastlyCloudflare

Two alternatives

Akamai, Fastly

against: Amazon CloudFront, Azure Front Dooragainst: Alibaba Cloud CDN, Amazon CloudFront, Azure Front Door, Baidu CDN, Bunny.net, Edgio, Google Cloud CDN, KeyCDN, Tencent Cloud CDN

Perplexity SonarAkamai

Three alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly

AkamaiHeld

Two alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare

Akamai, Cloudflare

Five alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Azure CDN, Fastly, Google Cloud CDN, Imperva

Cloudflare

Three alternatives

Akamai, Bunny.net, KeyCDN

against: Amazon CloudFrontno first choicenothing named

Grok 4.1 FastAkamai

Three alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly

AkamaiHeld

Three alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly

Akamai, Cloudflare

Four alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, Google Cloud CDN, Microsoft Azure CDN / Front Door

Amazon CloudFront

Three alternatives

Akamai, CacheFly, Cloudflare

against: BlazingCDN, Bunny.net, CDN77, Fastlyno first choice

Five alternatives

Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud CDN

against: Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly, Gcore, Lumen

Mistral SmallAkamai, Cloudflare

Three alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, Google Cloud CDN

Akamai, CloudflareHeldAkamai, Amazon CloudFront

Five alternatives

BlazingCDN, Cloudflare, Edgio, Fastly, Google Cloud CDN

BlazingCDNagainst: Amazon CloudFrontno first choiceagainst: Cloudflare

DeepSeek V4 FlashCloudflare

Four alternatives

Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, Google Cloud CDN

AkamaiChanged

One alternative

Cloudflare

Akamai, Cloudflare

Four alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Azure Front Door, Fastly, Google Cloud CDN

Cloudflare

One alternative

Akamai

against: Amazon CloudFront, Bunny.net, Fastlyno first choiceagainst: Azure CDN, Cloudflare, Edgio, Fastly, Lumen, StackPath

Llama 4 MaverickAkamai

Three alternatives

Bunny.net, Cloudflare, Fastly

AkamaiHeldno first choiceBlazingCDN

Two alternatives

Bunny.net, Cloudflare

against: Amazon CloudFrontno first choiceagainst: Cloudflare

Qwen 3.7 FlashCloudflare

Four alternatives

Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, F5 Distributed Cloud, Fastly

AkamaiChanged

Two alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare

no first choice

Four alternatives

Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly

Cloudflare

Four alternatives

Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, Azure Front Door, Fastly

no first choiceagainst: Akamai, Bunny.net, Cloudflare, Edgio, Fastly, KeyCDN

Kimi K2Akamai, Cloudflare

Two alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Fastly

AkamaiChanged

Two alternatives

Cloudflare, Fastly

Akamai

Three alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly

Cloudflare

Three alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, BlazingCDN, CDN77

against: Fastlyno first choiceagainst: Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, Azure CDN, Bunny.net, CDN77, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud CDN, KeyCDN

GLM 4.7 FlashXCloudflare

Two alternatives

Akamai, Fastly

AkamaiChanged

One alternative

Cloudflare

Akamai

Five alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, Azure Front Door, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud CDN

against: Bunny.netCloudflare

Two alternatives

Akamai, BlazingCDN

no first choiceagainst: Amazon CloudFront, Azure CDN, Cloudflare, Fastly

MiniMax M2.5Cloudflare

Three alternatives

Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly

CloudflareHeld

One alternative

Akamai

Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly

Four alternatives

Amazon CloudFront, BlazingCDN, Bunny.net, Google Cloud CDN

Cloudflare

Two alternatives

Akamai, Amazon CloudFront

no first choiceagainst: Akamai, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure, Polyfill.io, cdnjs

Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record

Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.

Prompt	Model	Version string	Time (UTC)	Searched	Sources	Latency
Direct recommendation	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 13:16	yes	9	8 s
Direct recommendation	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 09:40	yes	4	5 s
Direct recommendation	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 12:45	yes	1	26 s
Direct recommendation	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 11:58	yes	20	5 s
Direct recommendation	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 12:25	yes	30	17 s
Direct recommendation	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 13:32	yes	5	5 s
Direct recommendation	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 10:55	yes	10	14 s
Direct recommendation	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 12:29	yes	5	3 s
Direct recommendation	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 14:00	no	0	33 s
Direct recommendation	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 11:25	yes	10	23 s
Direct recommendation	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 13:04	yes	19	155 s
Direct recommendation	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 10:44	yes	5	17 s
Paraphrase	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 12:05	no	0	5 s
Paraphrase	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 10:28	yes	3	4 s
Paraphrase	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 09:23	yes	9	20 s
Paraphrase	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 09:39	yes	20	5 s
Paraphrase	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 12:44	yes	36	18 s
Paraphrase	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 13:23	yes	5	4 s
Paraphrase	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 12:46	yes	18	24 s
Paraphrase	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 10:34	yes	5	7 s
Paraphrase	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 09:39	yes	5	26 s
Paraphrase	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 13:02	yes	15	24 s
Paraphrase	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 09:26	yes	15	132 s
Paraphrase	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 10:50	yes	8	41 s
Comparative	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 13:13	yes	9	8 s
Comparative	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 11:20	yes	5	7 s
Comparative	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 11:24	yes	12	30 s
Comparative	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 14:00	yes	20	8 s
Comparative	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 11:39	yes	22	15 s
Comparative	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 12:08	yes	5	9 s
Comparative	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 12:07	yes	12	23 s
Comparative	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 12:02	yes	5	3 s
Comparative	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 11:47	no	0	42 s
Comparative	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 13:05	yes	20	55 s
Comparative	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 14:07	no	0	38 s
Comparative	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 13:06	yes	9	32 s
Budget constrained	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 12:02	yes	15	13 s
Budget constrained	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 13:18	yes	2	4 s
Budget constrained	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 13:47	yes	21	26 s
Budget constrained	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 09:25	yes	19	8 s
Budget constrained	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 12:42	yes	40	17 s
Budget constrained	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 09:44	yes	5	4 s
Budget constrained	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 11:03	yes	19	23 s
Budget constrained	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 10:06	yes	5	2 s
Budget constrained	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 14:12	no	0	38 s
Budget constrained	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 11:19	yes	12	26 s
Budget constrained	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 10:13	yes	13	21 s
Budget constrained	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 10:19	yes	14	52 s
Scale constrained	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 12:37	yes	36	21 s
Scale constrained	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 11:07	no	0	11 s
Scale constrained	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 11:41	yes	5	25 s
Scale constrained	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 11:11	yes	18	22 s
Scale constrained	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 13:13	yes	19	15 s
Scale constrained	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 13:03	no	0	10 s
Scale constrained	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 11:27	yes	19	24 s
Scale constrained	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 13:31	yes	5	4 s
Scale constrained	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 11:44	no	0	40 s
Scale constrained	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 09:36	yes	20	44 s
Scale constrained	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 13:39	yes	20	73 s
Scale constrained	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 09:59	no	0	50 s
Negative framing	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 09:31	yes	18	10 s
Negative framing	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 13:37	no	0	6 s
Negative framing	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 12:05	yes	8	27 s
Negative framing	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 09:42	yes	20	5 s
Negative framing	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 12:19	yes	23	14 s
Negative framing	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 12:44	yes	5	7 s
Negative framing	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 10:28	yes	30	27 s
Negative framing	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 11:56	yes	9	4 s
Negative framing	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 12:57	yes	25	103 s
Negative framing	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 12:48	yes	28	52 s
Negative framing	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 12:23	yes	22	64 s
Negative framing	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 09:59	yes	13	46 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings

AWS read as Amazon CloudFront

Unresolved, counted raw

Baidu CDN

Cedexis

Google Cloud CDN / Media CDN

IO River

Medianova

YewSafe

YewSafe CDN

Discontinued, still offered

No shut-down product was recommended here.

Content delivery networks for enterprise buyers

By buyer segment

01The standing

Recommended versus criticized

02What they warned about

03What they cite

Sites the answers cite

Pages the answers cite

04How they answered

05The record

Normalization in this category

Also in network and edge