Tencent Cloud has been named a Leader in Gartner®'s first Magic Quadrant for Edge Delivery Platforms.
Shenzhen, China, November 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Gartner has released its inaugural Magic Quadrant™ for Edge Delivery Platforms, naming Tencent Cloud a Leader for its outstanding performance in "Ability to Execute" and "Completeness of Vision" with its Edge Security and Acceleration platform, EdgeOne.
A globally distributed network that supports security and accelerates delivery
EdgeOne is built on a backbone network exceeding 400 Tbps, with over 3,200 edge nodes spanning more than 70 countries, supporting both inbound traffic to China and international traffic to deliver low-latency, highly resilient digital experiences—an essential network infrastructure for businesses expanding overseas or entering the Chinese market.
On this network, EdgeOne serves customers across industries such as finance, media, e-commerce, logistics, ticketing, aviation, and hospitality, with standout performance in latency-sensitive sectors like gaming and video. In gaming, IDC’s cloud gaming market research shows that Tencent Cloud’s CDN service running on EdgeOne has ranked first in revenue in China for four consecutive years and leads in game download and distribution volume. EdgeOne currently provides security protection for over 10,000 games worldwide, delivers stable and smooth experiences for more than 35 million pre-registered players of Neverness to Everness, supports distribution and security for over 5.2 million pre-registered players during the global open beta of Mecha BREAK, and helps Delta Force fend off hundreds of large-scale attacks. In video, 80% of the top 10 outbound social video apps in China run on EdgeOne, serving global clients including BeLive Technology, DONUTS, Bilibili, and Tencent Music Entertainment Group.
From Custody to Inference: Accelerating the Deployment of Edge AI Applications
Tencent Cloud stated that, in this evaluation, Gartner focused on the edge platform's ability to support AI workloads. As agents rapidly enter production environments, inference is shifting closer to users. EdgeOne received recognition for two AI advancements: first, Makers enables rapid deployment of websites and agents, demonstrating strong market responsiveness; second, Booster performs inference in real time at the edge, closer to users, showcasing the strength of its edge inference platform.
With the rise of vibe coding, a surge of newly generated agents is entering production environments, creating new demands for instant deployment and hosting. Makers has expanded its hosting scope from web pages to agents, enabling enterprises to rapidly deploy and go live without building their own infrastructure, while automatically providing global acceleration and security protection. Makers currently serves over 500,000 users and more than one million hosted sites, and can batch-deploy tens of thousands of assets for a single client—including static HTML pages, full-stack websites—supporting corporate websites, cross-border e-commerce, and AI SaaS platforms, as well as enabling the deployment of agents and modernization of websites in healthcare, government, legal, and education sectors.
Booster extends the global distributed infrastructure from content delivery to AI computing, running inference at edge nodes closer to the business. For latency- and concurrency-sensitive workloads such as voice interactions, real-time interactive video, image and video generation, embodied AI data labeling, and game AI NPCs, Booster reduces network latency by over 50%, shortens the first token generation time by more than 70%, and increases peak real-time concurrency by 3 to 5 times—all through a single integration that delivers both acceleration and security protection.
Booster has been deployed in scenarios such as embodied AI, film and television production, and overseas short-form drama creation, helping businesses accelerate real-time interactions, scale computing power on demand for large-scale events, and overcome content production bottlenecks. In embodied AI, robot voice interaction inference runs on EdgeOne edge nodes, reducing first-word response time by 30%, lowering interaction jitter by 4.6 times, and keeping end-to-end latency under one second. In film and television production, EdgeOne provides on-demand, scalable inference capabilities for 4D Gaussian cloud reconstruction during large-scale events. In overseas short-form dramas, AI dubbing platforms integrate with Booster to support global distribution.
In addition, EdgeOne has recently been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Global Managed Edge Services, and Tencent Cloud has been named a representative vendor in two Gartner Market Guides—“Cloud Web Application and API Protection” and “Edge Delivery Platforms”—with its capabilities also incorporated into 3GPP international standards. Looking ahead, EdgeOne will continue to expand its global network, security, and edge computing capabilities toward AI, helping more enterprises connect with global users and accelerate AI adoption.
Gartner Disclaimer
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Edge Delivery Platforms, by Amol Nerlekar, Brandon Medford, Jimmy Chuang, November 4, 2026
Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud Web Application and API Protection, by Esraa ElTahawy, Adam Hils, Dale Koeppen, June 8, 2026
Gartner, Market Guide for Edge Delivery Platforms, by Amol Nerlekar, Peter Kjeldsen, Brandon Medford, November 17, 2025
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