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Akamai vs Softaculous

Akamai leads in Product Coverage. Softaculous leads in Hosts, Pancakes, Market Share. They tie on Avg Pancakes/Host. They share 1 customer.

6
Hosts
38 leads
6
Pancakes
39 leads
1
Avg Pancakes/Host
1
1%
Market Share
8% leads
100% leads
Product Coverage
18%

Key differences

  • Softaculous lists 15 more infrastructure products in the taxonomy (2 vs 17).
  • Akamai covers 1 stack layer Softaculous doesn't: Cloud.
  • Softaculous covers 14 stack layers Akamai doesn't: Resource Isolation & Jails, Live Patching & EOL Support, Shared & VPS Panel, App Installers and 10 more.

Products

Akamai

Softaculous

and 9 more

Customers

43
total hosts across both vendors
  • Shared 1
  • Akamai only 5
  • Softaculous only 37

Akamai only (5)

Shared (1)

Softaculous only (37)

Stack Layer Presence

Server

Akamai , Linode Cloud —
— Resource Isolation & Jails Simuzo
— Live Patching & EOL Support Rebootless

Control plane

— Shared & VPS Panel Virtualizor , Webuzo
— App Installers Softaculous

Application security & performance

— Application Security Loginizer
— Performance SpeedyCache

Site operations

— Backups Backuply
— Observability & Uptime Pinguzo
— Transactional Email & SMTP Softaculous SMTP

Site creation

— WP AI Builder SoftWP
— Templates PopularFX
— WP Builder PageLayer , SitePad
— Developer Tools AMPPS , FileOrganizer

Growth & monetization

— SEO & Discoverability SiteSEO

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Methodology: Hosts, Pancakes, and Market Share count public host_stack declarations for published hosts only — the same scope the Pancake Score leaderboard and vendor dashboards use. Stack Layer Presence reflects the product catalog, not adoption. Shared/Exclusive Customers are drawn from the same public declarations.