Head-to-Head Comparison
Akamai Object Storage vs Azure Blob Storage Pricing (2026)
Akamai Object Storage sells a package: $5.00/mo for the first 250 GB of storage and the first terabyte of egress, then $20.00/TB of storage and $5.00/TB of egress, with no API request fees. Azure Blob Storage bills $20.80/TB of storage and $87.00/TB of egress for the hot tier, charges $5.40 per million Class-A writes, and carries a 5 GB storage free tier. At 5 TB stored and 5 TB served the engine prices Akamai Object Storage at $120.00 and Azure Blob Storage at $538.90. The storage rates sit close together at $20.80/TB against $20.00/TB, so the totals are decided by the egress line: Azure bills $87.00/TB per terabyte served where Akamai bills $5.00/TB. The two are not drop-in replacements for each other: Akamai Object Storage speaks the S3 API, while Azure Blob Storage is its own API with an S3 adapter on top.
Monthly Cost by Workload
Starter / Web App
🏆 Akamai Object Storage (Linode) saves ~$44.95/mo on this workload.
Growth / Backup
🏆 Akamai Object Storage (Linode) saves ~$262.46/mo on this workload.
Data Lake / Scale
🏆 Akamai Object Storage (Linode) saves ~$1290.00/mo on this workload.
Side-by-Side Cost & Feature Matrix
| Feature / Pricing Dimension | Akamai Object Storage (Linode) | Blob Storage (Hot) |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor & Parent | Akamai Connected Cloud | Microsoft Azure |
| Storage Rate (USD/TB/mo) | $20.00 | $20.80 |
| Internet Egress (USD/TB) | $5.00 | $87.00 |
| Free Egress Policy | 1 TB / month | None |
| Write Requests (PUT/LIST per 1M) | $0 (Free) | $5.40 |
| Read Requests (GET/HEAD per 1M) | $0 (Free) | $0.43 |
| S3 API Compatibility | ✓ Standard S3 API | ✗ Proprietary / SDK Only |
| Durability | 99.999999999% (11 9s) | 99.999999999% (11 9s LRS / 16 9s GRS) |
| Availability SLA | 99.99% | 99.9% |
| Object Lock (WORM) | ✓ Object Lock | ✓ Object Lock |
| Versioning | ✓ Supported | ✓ Supported |
| Sovereignty & Jurisdiction | Global Multi-Region (US Cloud Act) | US Cloud Act (Global regions) |
| Minimum Commitment | $5/mo base incl. 250 GB + 1 TB egress | None |
| Datacenter Regions | US, EU | US, EU, AP |
Cost profile: where each provider wins
What Akamai Object Storage (Linode) is good for
- ✓ $5.00/mo base package including the first 250 GB of storage and the first terabyte of egress
- ✓ S3-compatible API, so existing S3 tooling and SDKs work unchanged
- ✓ Egress overage at $5.00/TB, the cheapest egress rate of the two
Constraints to plan around:
- ! Akamai Object Storage is the Linode product inside Akamai Connected Cloud, so it runs in US and EU regions only
- ! Overage storage at $20.00/TB once the included 250 GB is used up
- ! Storage and egress both bill as overage from the same base package, so a quiet bucket still pays the floor
What Blob Storage (Hot) is good for
- ✓ Storage at $20.80/TB with a 5 GB free tier and no base subscription to pay
- ✓ US, EU and APAC regions with a durable hot tier built for analytics and machine-learning pipelines
- ✓ Azure Synapse analytics, Microsoft Entra ID RBAC and the Data Lake Gen2 namespace
Constraints to plan around:
- ! Azure Blob Storage is not S3-compatible; the S3 adapter sits on top of the native API
- ! Egress at $87.00/TB is the line that decides this pair
- ! Class-A writes cost $5.40 per million, and the hot tier is the expensive tier of the Azure family
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