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Akamai vs jsDelivr: What are the differences?
Akamai: The leading platform for cloud, mobile, media and security across any device, anywhere. If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform. Akamai helps businesses connect the hyperconnected, empowering them to transform and reinvent their business online. We remove the complexities of technology, so you can focus on driving your business faster forward; jsDelivr: A free Open Source CDN for webmasters and developers. Unlike the competition, jsDelivr uses multiple CDN providers, resulting in the best possible uptime and performance. We currently use MaxCDN, CloudFlare, and KeyCDN.
Akamai and jsDelivr belong to "Content Delivery Network" category of the tech stack.
jsDelivr is an open source tool with 2.69K GitHub stars and 1.9K GitHub forks. Here's a link to jsDelivr's open source repository on GitHub.
Twitter, Salesforce, and Yahoo! are some of the popular companies that use Akamai, whereas jsDelivr is used by StackShare, myPresences, and Yump. Akamai has a broader approval, being mentioned in 92 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to jsDelivr, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
Pros of Akamai
Pros of jsDelivr
- Its fast9
- Diverse POPs and support8
- Free8
- Many packages available7
- Load multiple files with single HTTP request6
- Auto-minification by changing url extension to .min.js3
- View pkg download statistics per week/month/year3
- Can add OSS packages I use3
- Worked in China2
- Easy setup, great cdn1