Akamai Technologies reorganizes pricing by product and adds $100/month Managed Service
What happened
Between the Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026 captures of Akamai Technologies's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Pricing page reorganized from region-based pricing (North America/Europe/Asia-Pacific) to product-based pricing (Compute, Storage, Databases, Networking); adds $100/instance/month Managed Service. Pulse files it as a packaging change (new add-on) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Nov 2, 2026) lists NodeBalancers at $10, LKE High Availability at $60, Infrastructure Management at $100, LKE Enterprise at $300 and PostgreSQL at $16 per node/month.
It lands 97 days after Akamai Technologies's previous change, "Akamai Technologies strips all cloud pricing tables, shifts to region-specific subpages" (Jul 6, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Akamai Technologies quadruples image storage limits to 100 accounts, 500 GB" (Jun 19, 2026) and "Akamai Technologies: Services section description updated: 'professionals who care' changed to 'certified cloud engineers',…" (Jun 2, 2026). Akamai Technologies has been tracked since 2026-05-16.
In the same window Limelight Software, Fastly, Google Cloud and Cloudflare also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · Add-onAdded
BeforeNot listed
After$100/instance/month Managed Service
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Add-on | Not listed | $100/instance/month Managed Service | Added |
Values as written on Akamai Technologies's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Akamai Technologies's pricing page (www.akamai.com) from Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where $100/instance/month Managed Service now appears.
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Akamai Technologies, pricing history
Full history- Oct 12, 2026packagingAkamai Technologies reorganizes pricing by product and adds $100/month Managed Service · this change
- Jul 6, 2026packagingAkamai Technologies strips all cloud pricing tables, shifts to region-specific subpages
- Jun 19, 2026packagingAkamai Technologies quadruples image storage limits to 100 accounts, 500 GB
- Jun 2, 2026packagingAkamai Technologies: Services section description updated: 'professionals who care' changed to 'certified cloud engineers',…
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- Limelight SoftwareOct 5Limelight Software brings back Starter and Unlimited plan cards in pricing page redesign
- FastlySep 28Fastly launches AI Platform: usage-based Runtime Control from $1.75
- Google CloudSep 21Looker: Conversational Analytics grace period extended indefinitely
- CloudflareAug 17Cloudflare Network Services pricing table removed (Magic Transit, WAN, Firewall)
Questions about this change
Did Akamai Technologies raise prices in October 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new add-on.
What changed on Akamai Technologies's pricing page between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026?
Add-on: Not listed → $100/instance/month Managed Service, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Akamai Technologies change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Akamai Technologies in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Akamai Technologies strips all cloud pricing tables, shifts to region-specific subpages" on Jul 6, 2026; Akamai Technologies has been tracked since 2026-05-16.