> Pretty good competition.

Not when it comes to pricing.

Both have better networks and features though. Sometimes you get what you pay for.

Cloudflare is the Heroku of the CDN space. They are easy to setup, they give away free or cheap accounts to get people on their service. Once a company gets big and starts having real traffic they move off of Cloudflare to a better provider.

Akamai isn't competing with Cloudflare on price, much like The French Laundry isn't competing with McDonalds on price.

Fastly has a very comparable network to CloudFlare:

https://imgur.com/a/rTyV6e5

CloudFlare’s $200/month plan is the best CDN per $ money can buy.

Once you get into “Enterprise”, then you should move somewhere else as they stop being competitive.

Fastly has been wonderful to work with. Excellent support, being able to write VCL and deploy it to the edge has been great, and the network is fast and reliable. Also haven't had a Heartbleed type event yet.

But that's not what it means to have competition.

Walmart is still Amazon's competitor, despite being much cheaper in many cases.

Do they have a WAF? Fastly seems to have one in limited availability at least...

* https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/waf.jsp

* https://www.fastly.com/products/cloud-security/web-applicati...

Not saying they are better than Cloudflare. I use Cloudflare myself. But they are good alternatives.