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Index › Vendors › Azure CDN · September 2026 Edition

Azure · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Azure CDN

20Judge labels

0First choices

10Negative labels

10 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Azure CDN was named 4 times in CDN, where Cloudflare led with 80%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business28 of 30

under the label threshold

Mid-market26 of 40

under the label threshold

Enterprise8 of 39

under the label threshold

In cdn · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Azure CDN for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Content delivery networks	Network and edge	0%	26 of 40	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 80%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Azure CDN yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Azure CDN across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative10 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“top picks for those with experience” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CDN · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Azure CDN from Edgio has been entirely decommissioned” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CDN · negative prompt · hard negative

“AWS CloudFront, Azure CDN | Backend HTTP/ weak crypto allowances; outage propagation. Heavy logging” Grok 4.1 Fast · CDN · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Azure CDN, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure CDN was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare20 of 2011Not in the top three

Amazon CloudFront19 of 200Not in the top three

Akamai17 of 204Not in the top three

Fastly17 of 200Not in the top three

Google Cloud CDN13 of 200Not in the top three

Bunny.net10 of 202Not in the top three

KeyCDN7 of 200Not in the top three

CDN775 of 200Not in the top three

Edgio4 of 200Not in the top three

StackPath4 of 200Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Azure CDN. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 14 of the 20 answers that named Azure CDN and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.blazingcdn.com11

fastly.com8

yewsafe.com8

edgenext.com5

broadbandnow.com4

g2.com4

ioriver.io4

linkedin.com4

almanac.httparchive.org3

blog.cloudflare.com3

Fifty-four of the fifty-four domain citations in answers naming Azure CDN came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

fastly.com/blog/best-cdn-providers6

yewsafe.com/blog/17762239638655

yewsafe.com/blog/17815821514335

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/best-enterprise-cdn-providers-compared4

broadbandnow.com/guides/CDN-Providers4

almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/cdn3

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/10-most-reliable-cdn-providers-99-999-uptime3

blog.blazingcdn.com/en-us/the-best-cdns-in-2026-compared-by-speed-price-and-global-coverag3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Azure CDN

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Azure CDN; a claim can dispute any of them.

Microsoft Azure CDN 2Azure CDN from Edgio 1

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