Content Delivery Network Comparison

Written by: Hosting Coupons on May 15, 2014

Here’s a comparison of the top CDN providers:

 

	CloudFlare	MaxCDN	Cloudfront	EdgeCast	CDN77.com	CDNify	XCDN (powered by Akamai)
Free plan?	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Price / GB	Various plans starting from $20/mo. No per GB charge.	$0.09 – $0.05.5	$0.17 – $0.02 depending on region and volume.	$	$0.049 – $0.035	$0.07 – $0.05 (billed in 100GB increments)	$0.25 – $0.19
No. of datacenters (USA & Canada)	10	9	13	9	6	9	2500+ globally
No. of datacenters (Europe)	10	3	10	8	10	6	2500+ globally (25% in Europe)
No. of datacenters (Asia & Australia)	5	3	9	6	6	3	2500+ globally
No. of datacenters (South America)	3	0 (1 planned)	2	1	3	0	2500+ globally
Origin-Pull	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Push	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Purge	?	Yes	Yes (not Purge All)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Custom CNAMEs	Yes, with paid plans	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Free trial?	Free plan available	15-day	No	No	14-day	No	No