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Akamai's top competitors include CloudFlare, Level 3 Parent, Fastly, Instart Logic and Kingsoft Cloud.
| Save Comparison |  Akamai Akamai Technologies is a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications across any device. |  Level 3 Parent Level 3 Parent (formerly Level 3 Communications) is an international communications company developing IP transit networks. |  Fastly Fastly is a company that offers content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate and scale websites, mobile applications, and APIs. | |||
Founding Date | Founding Date 1998 | Founding Date 2009 | Founding Date 1998 | Founding Date 2011 | Founding Date 2010 | Founding Date 2012 |
Type | Type Public | Type Public | Type Subsidiary | Type Public | Type Private | Type Private |
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Locations | Locations Cambridge, US HQ Vicente López, AR Melbourne, AU North Sydney, AU São Paulo, BR Ottawa, CA Toronto, CA see more | Locations San Francisco, US HQ Sydney, AU Beijing, CN München, DE Lisboa, PT Singapore, SG London, GB see more | Locations Broomfield, US HQ Buenos Aires, AR Brussel, BE São Paulo, BR Montreal, CA Toronto, CA Berlin, DE see more | Locations San Francisco, US HQ Tokyo, JP London, GB Denver, US New York, US Portland, US | Locations Beijing, CN HQ | |
Employees | Employees 7,4621% decrease | Employees 1,27019% increase | Employees N/A | Employees 63040% increase | Employees 183 | Employees 1,84135% increase |
Valuation ($) | Valuation ($) 16.1 b | Valuation ($) 8.8 b | Valuation ($) N/A | Valuation ($) 4.7 b | Valuation ($) N/A | Valuation ($) N/A |
Twitter followers | Twitter followers 111.9 k | Twitter followers 100.2 k | Twitter followers 27.6 k | Twitter followers 12.2 k | Twitter followers 4 | Twitter followers 54 |
Number of tweets (last 30 days) | Number of tweets (last 30 days) 159 | Number of tweets (last 30 days) 75 | Number of tweets (last 30 days) N/A | Number of tweets (last 30 days) 62 | Number of tweets (last 30 days) N/A | Number of tweets (last 30 days) 8 |
Average likes per tweet (last 30 days) | Average likes per tweet (last 30 days) 4.5 | Average likes per tweet (last 30 days) 23.7 | Average likes per tweet (last 30 days) N/A | Average likes per tweet (last 30 days) 11 | Average likes per tweet (last 30 days) N/A | Average likes per tweet (last 30 days) 1.5 |
Percentage of tweets with engagement (last 30 days) | Percentage of tweets with engagement (last 30 days) 100% | Percentage of tweets with engagement (last 30 days) 98.67% | Percentage of tweets with engagement (last 30 days) N/A | Percentage of tweets with engagement (last 30 days) 95.16% | Percentage of tweets with engagement (last 30 days) N/A | Percentage of tweets with engagement (last 30 days) 87.5% |
Alexa Website Rank | Alexa Website Rank 13646 | Alexa Website Rank 1271 | Alexa Website Rank 10146 | Alexa Website Rank 25455 | Alexa Website Rank 393843 | Alexa Website Rank 124799 |
Employee Rating | Employee Rating 4.0 | Employee Rating 3.8 | Employee Rating 3.0 | Employee Rating 3.9 | Employee Rating 3.5 | Employee Rating N/A |
Financial | ||||||
Revenue (est.) | Revenue (est.) $2.9b (FY, 2019) | Revenue (est.) $287m (FY, 2019) | Revenue (est.) $8.2b (FY, 2019) | Revenue (est.) $200.5m (FY, 2019) | Revenue (est.) N/A | Revenue (est.) N/A |
Cost of goods | Cost of goods $987.6m (FY, 2019) | Cost of goods $63.4m (FY, 2019) | Cost of goods $3.8b (FY, 2019) | Cost of goods $88.3m (FY, 2019) | Cost of goods N/A | Cost of goods N/A |
Gross profit | Gross profit $1.9b (FY, 2019) | Gross profit $223.6m (FY, 2019) | Gross profit $4.4b (FY, 2019) | Gross profit $112.1m (FY, 2019) | Gross profit N/A | Gross profit N/A |
Net income | Net income $478m (FY, 2019) | Net income ($105.8m) (FY, 2019) | Net income ($3.2b) (FY, 2019) | Net income ($51.6m) (FY, 2019) | Net income N/A | Net income N/A |
Operating ⚠ | ||||||
Countries | Countries 130 (Q3, 2019) | Countries 90 (Q3, 2019) | Countries 60 (FY, 2018) | Countries N/A | Countries N/A | Countries N/A |
Customers | Customers N/A | Customers 7 m (Jan, 2018) | Customers 47 k (Q2, 2017) | Customers 1.6 k (FY, 2018) | Customers N/A | Customers N/A |
Data Centers | Data Centers N/A | Data Centers 120 (Jan, 2018) | Data Centers 360 (FY, 2017) | Data Centers N/A | Data Centers N/A | Data Centers N/A |
Networks | Networks 1.7 k (FY, 2018) | Networks 8 k (Q2, 2019) | Networks N/A | Networks N/A | Networks N/A | Networks N/A |
Funding | ||||||
Latest funding round | Latest funding round N/A | Latest funding round N/A | Latest funding round N/A | Latest funding round N/A | Latest funding round $ 30m (over 2 years ago) | Latest funding round $ 50m (6 months ago) |
Total funding raised | Total funding raised N/A | Total funding raised $ 330.8m | Total funding raised $ 13.7m | Total funding raised $ 219m | Total funding raised $ 140m | Total funding raised $ 968.5m |
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