Tencent Cloud was rated as a leader in the first Gartner ® Edge Connect Platform Magic Quadrant.
Shenzhen, China, November 8, 2026 / PRNewswire / -- Gartner released the first "Magic Quadrant™ for Edge Distribution Platforms" report, which rated Tencent Cloud as a leader due to its edge security and acceleration platform EdgeOne's outstanding performance in "execution capability" and "vision integrity".
A global distributed network that supports security and accelerates delivery
EdgeOne is built on a network that covers over 70 countries, with more than 3,200 edge nodes and over 400 Tbps backbone networks. It not only handles inbound traffic from China but also international traffic, providing a low-latency and highly resilient digital experience. As such, it has become an important network infrastructure for enterprises looking to expand overseas or enter the Chinese market.
On this network, EdgeOne serves customers in industries such as finance, media, e-commerce, logistics, ticketing, aviation, and hospitality, and performs outstandingly in industries with high requirements for latency, such as gaming and video. In the gaming sector, research on the cloud gaming market by IDC shows that Tencent Cloud's CDN service, running on EdgeOne, has ranked first in revenue in China for four consecutive years and also leads in the scale of game downloads and distribution. EdgeOne currently provides security protection for over 10,000 games worldwide, offering a stable and smooth experience to more than 35 million pre-registered players of Neverness to Everness, providing distribution and security support to over 5.2 million pre-registered players during the global beta test of Mecha BREAK, and has helped Delta Force withstand hundreds of large-scale attacks. In the video industry, 80% of the top 10 social video apps in China that have expanded overseas operate on EdgeOne. Its global clients include BeLive Technology, DONUTS, Bilibili, and Tencent Music Entertainment Group.
From hosting to inference: making edge AI applications faster to deploy
Tencent Cloud stated that in this assessment, Gartner focused particularly on the support capability of edge platforms for AI workloads. As agents rapidly enter production environments and inference processes are gradually moved closer to users, EdgeOne has been recognized for two advancements: firstly, the rapid deployment of Makers, which helps websites and agents go live more quickly, demonstrating strong market responsiveness; secondly, Booster, which can perform inference in real-time at the edge, closer to users, showcasing the strength of its edge inference platform.
With the rise of vibe and coding, a large number of newly generated agents are entering production environments, posing new demands for immediate deployment and hosting. Makers has expanded its hosting capabilities from web pages to agents, allowing enterprises to deploy and go live quickly without having to build their own infrastructure, while also providing global acceleration and security protection by default. Makers currently serves over 500,000 users and more than 1 million hosted sites, and is capable of deploying tens of thousands of assets for a single client in batches – including static HTML pages, full-stack websites, etc. It supports the modernization of corporate websites, cross-border e-commerce, and AI SaaS, as well as the launch of agents in fields such as healthcare, government, law, and education.
Booster extends the global distributed infrastructure from content distribution to AI computing, running inference at edge nodes close to the business. For workloads that are sensitive to latency and concurrency, such as voice interactions, real-time interactive video, image and video generation, embodied AI data annotation, and gaming AI NPC, Booster can reduce network latency by more than 50%, shorten the generation time of the first token by more than 70%, and increase peak real-time concurrency by 3 to 5 times. At the same time, it provides acceleration and security protection through a single integration.
Booster has currently been deployed in scenarios such as embodied AI, film and television production, and the production of short dramas for international markets. It helps enterprises accelerate real-time interactions, elastically expand computing power for large-scale events, and break through bottlenecks in content production. In the area of embodied AI, robot voice interaction and reasoning run on EdgeOne edge nodes, reducing the first-word response time by 30%, lowering interaction jitter by 4.6 times, and keeping the end-to-end latency within 1 second. In film and television production, EdgeOne provides on-demand, scalable reasoning capabilities for 4D Gaussian cloud reconstruction during large-scale events. For short dramas targeting international markets, the AI dubbing platform is integrated with Booster to support global distribution.
In addition, EdgeOne has recently been recognized as a global leader in managed edge services by IDC MarketScape. Tencent Cloud has also been listed as a representative vendor in two Market Guide reports – "Cloud Web Applications and API Protection" as well as "Edge Distribution Platform". Its related capabilities have also been incorporated into the 3GPP international standards. Looking to the future, EdgeOne will continue to expand its global network, security, and edge computing capabilities in the direction of AI, helping more enterprises connect with users around the world and accelerate the implementation of AI.
Gartner Disclaimer
Gartner, "Magic Quadrant of Edge Distribution Platforms", authors Amol Nerlekar, Brandon Medford, Jimmy Chuang, November 4, 2026
Gartner, "Cloud Web Application and API Protection Market Guide", authors Esraa ElTahawy, Adam Hils, Dale Koeppen, June 8, 2026
Gartner, "Edge Distribution Platform Market Guide", authors Amol Nerlekar, Peter Kjeldsen, Brandon Medford, November 17, 2025
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