When asked for the best CDN provider, 6 AI assistants named 8 brands between them this month. Cloudflare was named most often, followed by CloudFront and Amazon CloudFront. 2 brands were named by every assistant that answered: Cloudflare, CloudFront.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| CloudFront | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Amazon CloudFront | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Fastly | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Akamai | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| Bunny.net | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Pay | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| KeyCDN | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 5 brands, in this order: Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, CloudFront, Fastly, Akamai.
Choosing the best CDN (Content Delivery Network) provider for a small business depends on several factors such as budget, technical requirements, ease of use, customer support, and specific features needed.
Perplexity
Named 6 brands, in this order: Cloudflare, Bunny.net, Amazon CloudFront, CloudFront, Fastly, Akamai.
For most small businesses, Cloudflare is the best overall CDN starting point because it offers a strong free plan, built-in DDoS protection, automatic SSL, and easy setup.
Claude
Named 6 brands, in this order: Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, CloudFront, Pay, Fastly, KeyCDN.
Here are some top options depending on your needs:
Grok
Named 3 brands, in this order: Cloudflare, Bunny.net, CloudFront.
The "best" CDN for a small business depends on your budget, traffic volume, tech stack, and priorities (e.g., cost vs.
DeepSeek
Named 6 brands, in this order: Cloudflare, Bunny.net, Fastly, Pay, CloudFront, KeyCDN.
There's no single "best" CDN — it depends on your traffic profile, budget, and what you're serving.
Cohere
Named 5 brands, in this order: Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, CloudFront, Pay, Akamai.
Choosing the best Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider for a small business depends on several factors, including cost, performance, ease of use, and specific needs such as security, scalability, and global reach.
The questions asked
- What is the best CDN provider for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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https://mentionfox.com/ai-recommends/cdn-providers