Akamai competitors and alternatives
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 10 companies most like Akamai: Gcore, Fastly, Cloudflare, Schwarz Digits, Wasabi, Cloudflare, Rackspace Technology, Amazon, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Fortinet.
- Akamai itself has 250 open roles on Alion.
- Of them, Amazon is hiring the most, with 15,829 open roles.
- Wasabi has raised the most venture funding on record: $113.6M.
- Open roles at Cloudflare rose the most: from 387 on Oct 12, 2026 to 460 now.
Akamai and its competitors compared
Open roles are the postings Alion lists today; their change is shown only for career sites that state posting dates. Funding is the venture money on record. A dash means Alion holds no figure.
| Company | Open roles | Change | Raised | Last round | Employees | Headquarters | Main technologies | Hiring in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Akamai
This company
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250 | – | – | – | 5000+ | Cambridge, United States | Akamai, Python, Kubernetes | United States, Poland, Canada +23 more |
Gcore
In common: CDN & Edge Delivery, Web Security & DDoS Protection, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Python, Go, SQL |
18 | – | – | – | 501-1000 | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg | Linux, Python, DNS | Poland, Serbia, Georgia +2 more |
Fastly
In common: CDN & Edge Delivery, Web Security & DDoS Protection · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
55 | – | – | – | 1001-5000 | San Francisco, United States | Fastly, GitHub, Linux | United States, India, United Kingdom +3 more |
Cloudflare
In common: CDN & Edge Delivery, Web Security & DDoS Protection · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
460 | +19%since Oct 12, 2026 | – | – | 1001-5000 | San Francisco, United States | Cloudflare, DNS, Galileo | United States, Singapore, Portugal +15 more |
Schwarz Digits
In common: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Information Security · Python, Go, SQL |
355 | – | – | – | 5000+ | Bad Friedrichshall, Germany | Kubernetes, Python, CI/CD | Germany, Bulgaria, Austria |
Wasabi
In common: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), CDN & Edge Delivery, Information Security · Python, GCP, Azure · headquarters in United States |
10 | – | $113.6M | Venture round $32.5M2025 | 11-50 | Boston, United States | AWS, Amazon S3, Linux | United States, Singapore |
| Cloudflare In common: CDN & Edge Delivery, Web Security & DDoS Protection · Go, SQL, Terraform · headquarters in United States | 5 | – | – | – | – | San Francisco, United States | Cloudflare, Go, Rust | United States, United Kingdom, Portugal |
Rackspace Technology
In common: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
74 | – | – | – | 5000+ | San Antonio, United States | Azure, Python, AWS | United States, India, United Kingdom +2 more |
Amazon
In common: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
15,829 | – | $48.9M | Venture round $6.1M2018 | 5000+ | Seattle, United States | AWS, Python, SQL | United States, India, United Kingdom +54 more |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
In common: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
1,351 | – | – | – | 5000+ | Spring, United States | Python, Linux, Kubernetes | United States, India, Puerto Rico +49 more |
Fortinet
In common: Information Security · Python, Go, SQL · headquarters in United States |
597 | – | – | – | 5000+ | Sunnyvale, United States | Python, VPN, AWS | United States, Canada, Germany +47 more |
How the list is made
The list comes from Alion's similar-companies engine, the same one AI agents query through the Alion MCP server. A company ranks higher when it shares more of Akamai's industry segments and is less spread over others, when its job postings name the same technologies, when it is headquartered in the same country and when its size is close. The list is rebuilt every week.
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Alion, "Akamai competitors and alternatives: 10 similar companies compared on hiring and funding", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/akamai/competitors