European Alternatives to Akamai
Akamai is a US CDN and cloud security platform controlling a significant portion of global web traffic. Despite having EU PoPs, Akamai is a US company subject to CLOUD Act requests, and all traffic analytics are processed in the US.
1 EU alternative · avg. privacy score 87 · 1 free
Why switch from Akamai?
- –US company — all analytics and management data under CLOUD Act
- –Content delivery data subject to US surveillance requests
- –Very expensive for SMEs: custom enterprise pricing
- –Consolidates power over global web infrastructure in US hands
1 European Alternative
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Luxembourg-based CDN and cloud platform. European infrastructure, GDPR-compliant, enterprise SLA.
| Tool | Score | Privacy | Pricing | OSS | EU Data | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
#1Gcore Luxembourg-based CDN and cloud platform. European infrastructure, GDPR-compliant, enterprise SLA. High Trust | 83 | 87 | Freemium | — | ✓ | 🇱🇺 |
Luxembourg-based CDN and cloud platform. European infrastructure, GDPR-compliant, enterprise SLA.
Frequently Asked Questions
OVHcloud (France) offers a CDN with EU data processing. BunnyCDN (Slovenia) is a fast-growing EU CDN with excellent privacy and competitive pricing from €1/month. Fastly (US) has no EU alternative at its scale, but BunnyCDN serves most EU use cases.