Akamai EdgeWorkers vs Cloudflare Workers
Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.
Comparison space
Updated
Comparison facts
Platform
Hosting model
Managed
Supported
Managed
Supported
Services
CDN
Supported
CDN
Not supported
Edge Functions
Supported
Edge Functions
Supported
Key-Value Store
Supported
Key-Value Store
Supported
Managed Databases
Not supported
Managed Databases
Supported
Object Storage
Not supported
Object Storage
Supported
Queues
Not supported
Queues
Supported
Workflows
Not supported
Workflows
Supported
Workloads
AI Inference
Not supported
AI Inference
Supported
APIs
Not supported
APIs
Supported
Backend Services
Not supported
Backend Services
Supported
Background Workers
Not supported
Background Workers
Supported
Edge Request Processing
Supported
Edge Request Processing
Supported
Real-Time Applications
Not supported
Real-Time Applications
Supported
Scheduled Jobs
Not supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Static Sites
Not supported
Static Sites
Supported
Web Applications
Not supported
Web Applications
Supported
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Not recorded
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Deployment Rollbacks
Supported
Deployment Rollbacks
Supported
Deployment Traffic Splitting
Not recorded
Deployment Traffic Splitting
Supported
Preview Environments
Supported
Preview Environments
Supported
Development & Execution
Runtimes
Python Runtime
Not supported
Python Runtime
Supported
V8 Isolates
Supported
V8 Isolates
Supported
Languages
C
Not supported
C
Supported
C++
Not supported
C++
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
Python
Not supported
Python
Supported
Rust
Not supported
Rust
Supported
TypeScript
Not supported
TypeScript
Supported
Triggers
Database Events
Not supported
Database Events
Supported
Direct Invocation
Not supported
Direct Invocation
Supported
Edge Events
Supported
Edge Events
Supported
HTTP Requests
Supported
HTTP Requests
Supported
Queue Messages
Not supported
Queue Messages
Supported
Scheduled Invocation
Not supported
Scheduled Invocation
Supported
Storage Events
Not supported
Storage Events
Supported
Pricing
Billing basis
Resource based
Plan based
Requests / executions
- Invoked events — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
- Requests — $0.30 · per additional million requests
Compute
- Basic Compute — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
- Dynamic Compute — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
- CPU time — $0.02 · per additional million CPU milliseconds
Free entry / commitment
Existing Akamai customers can add a free Evaluation tier without a time limit; other users can request an EdgeWorkers free trial.
Recurring free allowances
Infrastructure & Availability
Execution & locality
- Execution: Edge
- Scope: Global
- Execution: Edge
- Scope: Global
Provider / network
- Own Network
- Own Network
Availability footprint
- 4,400+ PoPs
- 348 Locations
Resource & Execution Limits
Memory
Unknown
128 MB
Code / package size
512 KB compressed / 1 MB uncompressed
Unknown
Request / response size
16,384 characters
Unknown
Security & Compliance
Access & identity
Access Control
Group and role permissions
Workers Platform Admin and read-only roles
Encryption & secrets
Secrets Management
Unknown
Encrypted Worker secrets and Secrets Store bindings
Network isolation & protection
Network Isolation
Unknown
V8 isolates with process sandbox and trust cordons
Assurances & programs
PCI DSS
Level 1
PCI DSS v4.0 Level 1
ISO Certifications
ISO/IEC 27001, 27017 & 27018
Unknown
SOC Reports
Unknown
SOC 2 Type II