Does Akamai publish CDN pricing in 2026?

No. Akamai's enterprise CDN products (Ion, Adaptive Media Delivery, App and API Protector) have no public per-GB rate card in 2026. All CDN pricing is quote-driven through Akamai sales, usually as a 12 or 36 month committed contract with overage bands.

Which Akamai product does publish a price per GB?

Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode) publishes network transfer pricing. Compute instances include a pooled monthly transfer allowance (0 to 20 TB depending on plan family); outbound transfer over that pool costs $0.005 per GB for standard compute and $0.015 per GB for networking services. Object Storage outbound is $0.005 per GB after the first 1 TB free. This is the cloud compute product, not the enterprise CDN, so do not quote it back to a CDN sales rep.

How do you get an Akamai CDN price?

Send an RFP to Akamai sales asking for a written rate card by email, not just a meeting. Attach published rates from Cloudflare, Bunny, KeyCDN and Fastly as a negotiation floor so the quote cannot anchor high on committed minimums.

Akamai pricing

Akamai Pricing 2026 Verified: Quote-Only, Committed Contracts the Norm

Akamai does not publish a per-GB rate sheet on its website. All commercial terms are negotiated with sales, typically as a 12 or 36 month committed contract with overage bands.

Verified 2026-06-17 against https://www.akamai.com/solutions/content-delivery-network

Direct answer

What does Akamai actually cost in 2026?

Akamai does not publish a per-GB rate card. All pricing is quote-driven through sales. The single most honest thing we can say is what their own page implies: contact the vendor and bring at least two competitor quotes (Cloudflare and Bunny work as the floor) before signing anything.

Source: https://www.akamai.com/solutions/content-delivery-network

Pricing model

Quote only

Cheapest published rate

Quote only

PoP claim

4,200+ locations claimed by Akamai

Why no rate table

Akamai does not publish a per-GB rate sheet. We do not infer rates for quote-only vendors. The vendor link below is the official URL we checked.

What to do instead

Ask sales for a rate card delivered by email (not just a meeting). Send Cloudflare, Bunny, KeyCDN and Fastly published rates with your RFP so the rep cannot anchor low and then escalate. See our CDN RFP template for the exact questions to ask.

Does Akamai publish any pricing?

Almost none, but the exception matters. Akamai runs two very different businesses under one brand, and they price in opposite ways.

The enterprise CDN: quote-only

Akamai's content-delivery line (Ion, Adaptive Media Delivery, and the App and API Protector security bundle) has no published per-GB rate. Every commercial term is negotiated with sales, typically a 12 or 36 month committed contract with overage bands. This is what people usually mean by "Akamai CDN pricing," and there is no official rack rate to look up.

Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode): published network transfer rates

The one Akamai product that does list a price per GB is Akamai Cloud, the cloud-compute platform Akamai built on its 2022 Linode acquisition. Its network transfer pricing is public on the Akamai Cloud pricing pages:

Pooled monthly transfer allowance bundled with compute instances, scaling from 0 to 20 TB per month depending on plan family (newer G8 and GPU plans include no bundled transfer).
$0.005 per GB outbound overage on standard compute once the pool is used up (halved from $0.01/GB effective 1 April 2023).
$0.015 per GB outbound overage on networking services.
Object Storage outbound at $0.005 per GB with the first 1 TB free each month.

Do not confuse the two products

These Akamai Cloud figures are compute egress, not the enterprise CDN rate card. A CDN sales quote will not use them, and quoting $0.005/GB back to a CDN rep will not anchor your negotiation. Use them only if you are actually sizing Akamai Cloud (Linode) compute and its outbound transfer.

Source: Akamai Cloud pricing (akamai.com/cloud/pricing/north-america) and the Akamai Cloud price-update note, both checked 28 July 2026.

Worked example

Acme Streaming Co. (illustrative example, not a real company) serves 30 TB/month with the mix 60% North America, 30% Europe, 10% Asia Pacific.

Acme Streaming Co. cost: not computable

Because Akamai does not publish a rate card, we cannot give Acme an honest estimate without inventing numbers. We will not do that. The realistic next step for Acme is to send a 30 TB / NA-EU-AP mix RFP to sales with three competitor quotes attached as the negotiation floor.

Best fit and watch-out

Best for

Large enterprises that need bespoke routing, security, and multi-product contracts.

Watch out for

Quotes commonly anchor to committed monthly minimums. Without a procurement team and benchmark quotes from at least two challengers, you have no price floor.

When not to pick Akamai

You cannot accept a contract that hides the per-unit rate.
You need a Free tier or pay-as-you-go signup without sales involvement.
Your engineering team is small and you cannot run a competitive RFP.
Vendor financial or product continuity is a concern (especially this vendor).

Source and verification

Source URL checked on 2026-06-17: https://www.akamai.com/solutions/content-delivery-network.

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Last verified June 2026.