Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 6 → 3 of 43
1 category · RankedKeyCDN
65Judge labels
5First choices
8Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in CDN for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 49 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
4 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 12% of its 25 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of KeyCDN →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business3 of 44
2%35 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market3 of 49
7%25 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise43 of 45
0%5 labels
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 KeyCDN 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Content delivery networks | Network and edge | 7% | 3 of 49 | 12% | 25 | accepted challenger | ▲+8Since September 2026: 0% → 8%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, KeyCDN held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CDN · by segment
Mid-market▲+8Since September 2026: 0% → 8%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
8%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 7 → 3 of 44
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 37 → 41 of 43
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDN | 0% | 8% | ▲+8Since September 2026: 0% → 8%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 7 → 3 of 49 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated KeyCDN across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated KeyCDN across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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
Direct15 labels5
Paraphrase8 labelsNone
Comparative10 labelsNone
Budget-constrained15 labelsNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative13 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative65 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 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.
“KeyCDN is another popular choice, offering transparent pricing ... a good fit for mid-market B2B organizations” Mistral Small · CDN · direct prompt · first choice
“The best CDN for a mid-market B2B company is Bunny.net, KeyCDN, or BlazingCDN.” Llama 4 Maverick · CDN · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd suggest starting with Bunny.net or KeyCDN for cost-effectiveness” MiniMax M2.5 · CDN · direct prompt · first choice
“### 1. Best Overall Balance: KeyCDN” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CDN · direct prompt · first choice
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.
“KeyCDN has a smaller network and less global coverage compared to larger CDN providers” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CDN · negative prompt · soft negative
“No-SLA/consumer tiers (Bunny.net, KeyCDN): Avoid for critical/production systems” Grok 4.20 · CDN · negative prompt · soft negative
“small providers — While some are decent, small CDNs often lack” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CDN · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as KeyCDN, over the 65 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and KeyCDN was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as KeyCDN, over the 65 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and KeyCDN was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 KeyCDN. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 61 of the 65 answers that named KeyCDN and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
blog.blazingcdn.com52
broadbandnow.com30
fastly.com22
linkedin.com22
myrasecurity.com22
affmaven.com19
accio.com18
g2.com16
ioriver.io16
33rdsquare.com15
232 of the 232 domain citations in answers naming KeyCDN came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
keycdn.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, KeyCDN takes 7% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 68%.ShowHide
Search and answers
keycdn.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, KeyCDN takes 7% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 68%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cdn”
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not in the top ten
Position for “cdns”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 390 a month (“keycdn”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 10 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 256,464 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 14,861 · 517 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 11,460
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
7%
rank 3 of 49 in CDN
Segment leader
68%
Cloudflare
- First choices
- 5 across its categories
- Named in
- 65 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 61 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Follow KeyCDN
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
KeyCDN is its own company.ShowHide
The company
KeyCDN is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- KeyCDN is a high performance content delivery network (CDN).
- Price stated
- Pricing keycdn.com
- Free plan or trial
- Try KeyCDN with a free 14 day trial, no credit card required. keycdn.com
- Hosting
- 6 Continents served
- Customers named
- MeteorDiscourseIcons8UploadcareAirsquare
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, starting price, integrations, certifications
What KeyCDN's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: keycdn.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when KeyCDN's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as KeyCDN, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for KeyCDN by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where KeyCDN is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name KeyCDN, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where KeyCDN is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where KeyCDN is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideKeyCDN is among the products AI models recommend first in Content delivery networks this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.