Cloudflare Workers compared to Akamai Edge Workers

Cloudflare Workers
Versus
Akamai Edge Workers

Features

Edge Features of Cloudflare Workers compared to Akamai Edge Workers
Cloudflare WorkersFeaturesAkamai Edge Workers
Functions / Serverless
javascript, rust, C/++Functions supported languagesJavaScript, possibly Python (1 example with Python code in their repo)
Worker.js Environment
Docker supportNo
Docker private registry
Kubernetes support
Managed Kubernetes
200 popsAvailability regionsOver 4100 POPs worldwide
128Default Memory (MB)
128Maximum Memory (MB)
10Execution Time (ms)
50Maximum Execution Time (ms)
Request Payload (MB)
Response Payload (MB)
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions


Cloudflare Workers


Continuing their ongoing efforts to improve the internets global state, Cloudflare started to allow compute at their edge, eventually and essentially becoming a serverless/edge compute provider.

Cloudflare has an impressive global network presence and an even more impressive rate of pushing (open source or free) products to the market.

Unique about Workers is Key Value storage. Cloudflare’s low latency KV data store, optimized for high reads, low writes.

With a rich amount of example code to start out in your code of preference right away!


Akamai Edge Workers


Akamai, the 800-pound gorilla in the CDN jungle, has joined the Edge Compute movement by launching their Edge Worker solution in 2021. Leveraging Akamai’s gigantic network creates an attractive edge solution for those in need of large scale edge compute. Apps can be found on the Akamai Marketplace in case you don’t want to develop your own applications from scratch