Company
Cloudflare provides a global CDN with unique performance capabilities and a strong focus on security. The company has a global infrastructure built from the ground up using only next-generation, high-performance equipment—no legacy software or hardware. The result is a CDN that's easy to set up, affordable, and built to continuously adapt and integrate emerging technologies to meet future needs of everyone's Internet properties.
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Products
Cloudflare has a wide range of performance and security products for businesses of all sizes. CDN, DNS, video streaming and delivery, WAF, Bot Management, and more. Cloudflare also has solutions for remote working teams and building serverless applications.
View the table below for more insight into Cloudflare products.
Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.
| Product | ||
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| Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... | ||
| Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) | ||
| Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) | ||
| Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? | Stream Live | |
| Video on demandDelivery of on demand video | Stream | |
| Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization | Image Resizing, Mirage, Polish | |
| DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain | DNS | |
| WAFWeb Application Firewall | Cloud Web Application Firewall | |
| Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. | DDoS Protection | |
| Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs | ||
| Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers | Workers |
Network
Cloudflare has datacenters on all continents. Their network of 250+ POPs continues includes 20+ POPs in mainland China.
Cloudflare network map , China delivery
Click the country flag icon to navigate to a page showing all CDNs with POP(s) in that country
* = planned POPs
** = multiple POPs
| North America | 46 locations in 2 countries | ||
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United States | Ashburn - Atlanta - Boston - Buffalo - Charlotte - Chicago - Columbus - Dallas - Denver - Detroit - Honolulu - Houston - Indianapolis - Jacksonville - Kansas City - Las Vegas - Los Angeles - Mcallen - Memphis - Miami - Minneapolis - Montgomery - Nashville - Newark - Norfolk - Omaha - Philadelphia - Phoenix - Pittsburgh - Portland - Richmond - Sacramento - Salt Lake City - San Diego - San Jose - Seattle - St. Louis - Tallahassee - Tampa | |
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Canada | Calgary - Montreal - Ottawa - Saskatoon - Toronto - Vancouver - Winnipeg | |
| Latin America | 44 locations in 16 countries | ||
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Argentina | Buenos Aires - Cordoba - Neuquen | |
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Brazil | Americana - Belém - Belo Horizonte - Blumenau - Brasília - Caçador - Campinas - Curitiba - Florianópolis - Fortaleza - Goiânia - Itajaí - Joinville - Juazeiro do Norte - Manaus - Porto Alegre - Ribeirão Preto - Rio de Janeiro - Salvador - São José do Rio Preto - São Paulo - Sorocaba - Uberlândia | |
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Chile | Arica - Valparaíso | |
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Colombia | Bogotá - Medellin | |
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Costa Rica | San José | |
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Curacao | Willemstad | |
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Ecuador | Guayaquil - Quito | |
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Grenada | St George's | |
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Guatemala | Guatemala City | |
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Honduras | Tegucigalpa | |
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Haiti | Port-Au-Prince | |
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Mexico | Mexico City - Queretaro | |
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Panama | Panama City | |
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Peru | Lima | |
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Paraguay | Asuncion | |
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Suriname | Paramaribo | |
| Europe | 43 locations in 29 countries | ||
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Austria | Vienna | |
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Belgium | Brussels | |
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Bulgaria | Sofia | |
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Switzerland | Geneva - Zurich | |
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Cyprus | Nicosia | |
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Czech Republic | Prague | |
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Germany | Berlin - Dusseldorf - Frankfurt - Hamburg - Munich | |
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Denmark | Copenhagen | |
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Estonia | Talinn | |
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Spain | Barcelona - Madrid | |
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Finland | Helsinki | |
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France | Marseille - Paris | |
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United Kingdom | Edinburgh - London - Manchester | |
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Greece | Athens - Thessaloniki | |
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Croatia | Zagreb | |
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Hungary | Budapest | |
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Ireland | Cork - Dublin | |
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Iceland | Reykjavík | |
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Italy | Milan - Palermo - Rome | |
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Luxembourg | Luxembourg City | |
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Latvia | Riga | |
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Netherlands | Amsterdam | |
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Norway | Oslo | |
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Poland | Warsaw | |
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Portugal | Lisbon | |
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Romania | Bucharest | |
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Serbia | Belgrade | |
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Sweden | Gothenburg - Stockholm | |
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Sierra Leone | Vilnius | |
| Russia & CIS | 11 locations in 9 countries | ||
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Armenia | Yerevan | |
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Azerbaijan | Baku | |
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Belarus | Minsk | |
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Georgia | Tbilisi | |
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Kazakhstan | Almaty | |
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Moldova | Chișinău | |
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Russia | Krasnoyarsk - Moscow - St. Petersburg | |
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Ukraine | Kiev | |
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Uzbekistan | Tashkent | |
| Asia excl. China | 45 locations in 23 countries | ||
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Bangladesh | Chittagong - Dhaka - Jashore | |
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Brunei | Bandar Seri Begawan | |
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Bhutan | Thimphu | |
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Hong Kong | Hong Kong | |
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Japan | Fukuoka - Naha - Osaka - Tokyo | |
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Laos | Vientiane | |
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India | Bangalore - Bhubaneshwar - Chennai - Hyderabad - Kanpur - Kolkata - Mumbai - Nagpur - New Delhi - Patna | |
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Indonesia | Jakarta | |
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Cambodia | Phnom Penh | |
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South Korea | Seoul | |
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Sri Lanka | Colombo | |
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Myanmar | Yangon | |
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Mongolia | Ulaanbaatar | |
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Macau | Macau | |
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Maldives | Male | |
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Malaysia | Johor Bahru - Kuala Lumpur | |
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Nepal | Kathmandu | |
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Philippines | Cagayan - Cebu City - Manila | |
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Pakistan | Islamabad - Karachi - Lahore | |
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Singapore | Singapore | |
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Thailand | Bangkok - Chiang Mai - Surat Thani | |
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Taiwan | Taipei | |
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Vietnam | Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh | |
| China | 37 locations in 1 country | ||
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China | Partnership with JD Cloud; China POPs are part of the global network | |
| Oceania | 10 locations in 4 countries | ||
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Australia | Adelaide - Brisbane - Canberra - Melbourne - Perth - Sydney | |
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Guam | Guam - Hagåtña | |
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New Caledonia | Noumea | |
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New Zealand | Auckland | |
| Middle-East | 15 locations in 12 countries | ||
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United Arab Emirates | Dubai | |
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Bahrain | Manama | |
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Israel | Haifa - Tel Aviv | |
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Iraq | Baghdad - Erbil | |
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Jordan | Amman | |
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Kuwait | Kuwait City | |
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Lebanon | Beirut | |
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Oman | Muscat | |
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Qatar | Doha | |
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Palestinian Territory | Ramallah | |
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Saudi Arabia | Dammam - Riyadh | |
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Turkey | Istanbul | |
| Africa | 22 locations in 19 countries | ||
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Angola | Luanda | |
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Djibouti | Djibouti | |
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Algeria | Algiers | |
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Egypt | Cairo | |
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Ghana | Accra | |
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Kenya | Nairobi - Mombasa | |
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Liberia | Monrovia | |
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Morocco | Casablanca | |
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Madagascar | Antananarivo | |
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Mauritius | Port Louis | |
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Mozambique | Maputo | |
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Nigeria | Lagos | |
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Reunion | Sainte-Marie | |
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Rwanda | Kigali | |
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Senegal | Dakar | |
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Tunisia | Tunis | |
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Tanzania | Dar es Salaam | |
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South Africa | Cape Town - Durban - Johannesburg | |
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Zimbabwe | Harare | |
Pricing
Cloudflare charges for content delivery at flat monthly rates: you never pay for GBs or requests. The cheapest plan is free 'for people with personal or hobby projects that aren’t business-critical'. The Pro and Business plans are $20/month/domain and $200/month/domain, respectively. Cloudflare has many paid add-ons, like Dedicated SSL Certificates, Load Balancing, Argo Smart Routing, and Rate Limiting. Enterprise plans have custom pricing.
Cloudflare pricing, Compare features
| Pricing & contract duration | ||
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| Minimum contract term | None | |
| Minimum monthly costs | $0 | |
| Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | None | |
| Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred | None | |
| NA/EU traffic (low volume) | $0 | |
| APAC traffic (low volume) | $0 | |
| LATAM traffic (low volume) | $0 | |
Features
Cloudflare announced many new features related to content delivery speed during their 2021 SpeedWeek, including Improving Origin Performance for Everyone with Orpheus and Tiered Cache, Argo 2.0: Smart Routing Learns New Tricks and Data at Cloudflare just got a lot faster: Announcing Live-updating Analytics and Instant Logs
View the tables below for more insight into the features Cloudflare supports.
Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.
| Web acceleration | ||
|---|---|---|
| Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. | ||
| Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? | Instant | |
Apex/root domain OK
No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com
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Global Anycast network | |
| HTTP/2 | ||
| WebSockets
Technology for bidirectional communication in client-server apps
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WebSockets docs | |
| IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? | ||
| Compression
Reduce file size for faster delivery
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Resend from origin, or compress on edge | |
| Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? | HTTP and HTTPS | |
| Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value? | Can be an IP address | |
| Origin Shield
One POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP
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Tiered Cache, included in all paid plans | |
| Waiting RoomDuring peak traffic, route users to a virtual waiting room | Cloudflare Waiting Room | |
| Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin | ||
| Cache control - CDN caching | Page rules for overriding caching headers | |
| Cache control - client caching | ||
| Serve Stale
CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble
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Only 'stale while revalidate' | |
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Purge
Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN
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~ 5 seconds | |
| Purge - capabilities | Purge per file and purge all | |
| Analytics | Web analytics, threats and more. Live-updating for paying customers | |
| Log files | Only for Enterprise customers, instantly available | |
| API | Purge, analytics, configuration | |
| HTTPS & Content Protection | ||
|---|---|---|
| CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net | SNI | |
| Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate | More info | |
| Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN | ||
| Token authentication | More info | |
| Geo blocking | Access Rules | |
| Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content | ||
| Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content | Possible with Workers | |
| IP white/blacklisting | Access Rules | |
Support
The level of support varies per price plan. Free users get 'Email only support with median response time of 13 hours'. Response times improve at higher plans. Only Enterprise customers get phone support.
| Documentation | Yes, public. Cloudflare Community. | |
| Human support | Email support for all. Phone only for Enterprise customers | |
| Status Page | Cloudflare status page |
Contact Cloudflare
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