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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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Cloudflare 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.

Yes
Sort of/partially
No
Extra costs
Unknown
Product
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

Cloudflare 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 49 locations in 2 countries
United States flag United States Albuquerque - Ashburn - Atlanta - Austin - Bangor - 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
Canada flag Canada Calgary - Montreal - Ottawa - Saskatoon - Toronto - Vancouver - Winnipeg
Latin America 48 locations in 17 countries
Argentina flag Argentina Buenos Aires - Córdoba - Neuquen
Brazil flag Brazil Americana - Belém - Belo Horizonte - Blumenau - Brasília - Caçador - Campinas - Campos dos Goytacazes - Curitiba - Florianópolis - Fortaleza - Goiânia - Itajaí - Joinville - Juazeiro do Norte - Manaus - Porto Alegre - Ribeirão Preto - Rio de Janeiro - Salvador - São José do Rio Preto - São José dos Campos - São Paulo - Sorocaba - Uberlândia - Vitoria
Chile flag Chile Arica - Valparaíso
Colombia flag Colombia Bogotá - Medellin
Costa Rica flag Costa Rica San José
Curacao flag Curacao Willemstad
Ecuador flag Ecuador Guayaquil - Quito
Grenada flag Grenada St George's
Guatemala flag Guatemala Guatemala City
Honduras flag Honduras Tegucigalpa
Haiti flag Haiti Port-Au-Prince
Jamaica flag Jamaica Kingston
Mexico flag Mexico Mexico City - Querétaro
Panama flag Panama Panama City
Peru flag Peru Lima
Paraguay flag Paraguay Asuncion
Suriname flag Suriname Paramaribo
Europe 45 locations in 29 countries
Austria flag Austria Vienna
Belgium flag Belgium Brussels
Bulgaria flag Bulgaria Sofia
Switzerland flag Switzerland Geneva - Zurich
Cyprus flag Cyprus Nicosia
Czech Republic flag Czech Republic Prague
Germany flag Germany Berlin - Düsseldorf - Frankfurt - Hamburg - Munich - Stuttgart
Denmark flag Denmark Copenhagen
Estonia flag Estonia Tallinn
Spain flag Spain Barcelona - Madrid
Finland flag Finland Helsinki
France flag France Lyon - Marseille - Paris
United Kingdom flag United Kingdom Edinburgh - London - Manchester
Greece flag Greece Athens - Thessaloniki
Croatia flag Croatia Zagreb
Hungary flag Hungary Budapest
Ireland flag Ireland Cork - Dublin
Iceland flag Iceland Reykjavík
Italy flag Italy Milan - Palermo - Rome
Lithuania flag Lithuania Vilnius
Luxembourg flag Luxembourg Luxembourg
Latvia flag Latvia Riga
Netherlands flag Netherlands Amsterdam
Norway flag Norway Oslo
Poland flag Poland Warsaw
Portugal flag Portugal Lisbon
Romania flag Romania Bucharest
Serbia flag Serbia Belgrade
Sweden flag Sweden Gothenburg - Stockholm
Russia & CIS 11 locations in 9 countries
Armenia flag Armenia Yerevan
Azerbaijan flag Azerbaijan Baku
Belarus flag Belarus Minsk
Georgia flag Georgia Tbilisi
Kazakhstan flag Kazakhstan Almaty
Moldova flag Moldova Chișinău
Russia flag Russia Krasnoyarsk - Moscow - St. Petersburg
Ukraine flag Ukraine Kiev
Uzbekistan flag Uzbekistan Tashkent
Asia excl. China 45 locations in 23 countries
Bangladesh flag Bangladesh Chittagong - Dhaka - Jashore
Brunei flag Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan
Bhutan flag Bhutan Thimphu
Hong Kong flag Hong Kong Hong Kong
Japan flag Japan Fukuoka - Naha - Osaka - Tokyo
Laos flag Laos Vientiane
India flag India Bangalore - Bhubaneshwar - Chennai - Hyderabad - Kanpur - Kolkata - Mumbai - Nagpur - New Delhi - Patna
Indonesia flag Indonesia Jakarta
Cambodia flag Cambodia Phnom Penh
South Korea flag South Korea Seoul
Sri Lanka flag Sri Lanka Colombo
Myanmar flag Myanmar Yangon
Mongolia flag Mongolia Ulaanbaatar
Macau flag Macau Macau
Maldives flag Maldives Male
Malaysia flag Malaysia Johor Bahru - Kuala Lumpur
Nepal flag Nepal Kathmandu
Philippines flag Philippines Cagayan - Cebu City - Manila
Pakistan flag Pakistan Islamabad - Karachi - Lahore
Singapore flag Singapore Singapore
Thailand flag Thailand Bangkok - Chiang Mai - Surat Thani
Taiwan flag Taiwan Taipei
Vietnam flag Vietnam Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh
China 37 locations in 1 country
China flag China Partnership with JD Cloud; China POPs are part of the global network
Oceania 10 locations in 4 countries
Australia flag Australia Adelaide - Brisbane - Canberra - Melbourne - Perth - Sydney
Guam flag Guam Guam - Hagåtña
New Caledonia flag New Caledonia Noumea
New Zealand flag New Zealand Auckland
Middle East 15 locations in 12 countries
United Arab Emirates flag United Arab Emirates Dubai
Bahrain flag Bahrain Manama
Israel flag Israel Haifa - Tel Aviv
Iraq flag Iraq Baghdad - Erbil
Jordan flag Jordan Amman
Kuwait flag Kuwait Kuwait City
Lebanon flag Lebanon Beirut
Oman flag Oman Muscat
Qatar flag Qatar Doha
Palestinian Territory flag Palestinian Territory Ramallah
Saudi Arabia flag Saudi Arabia Dammam - Riyadh
Turkey flag Turkey Istanbul
Africa 24 locations in 20 countries
Angola flag Angola Luanda
Republic of the Congo flag Republic of the Congo Kinshasa
Djibouti flag Djibouti Djibouti
Algeria flag Algeria Algiers - Oran
Egypt flag Egypt Cairo
Ghana flag Ghana Accra
Kenya flag Kenya Nairobi - Mombasa
Liberia flag Liberia Monrovia
Morocco flag Morocco Casablanca
Madagascar flag Madagascar Antananarivo
Mauritius flag Mauritius Port Louis
Mozambique flag Mozambique Maputo
Nigeria flag Nigeria Lagos
Reunion flag Reunion Sainte-Marie
Rwanda flag Rwanda Kigali
Senegal flag Senegal Dakar
Tunisia flag Tunisia Tunis
Tanzania flag Tanzania Dar es Salaam
South Africa flag South Africa Cape Town - Durban - Johannesburg
Zimbabwe flag Zimbabwe Harare

Cloudflare 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
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

Cloudflare 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.

Yes
Sort of/partially
No
Extra costs
Unknown
Web acceleration
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing.
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? Instant
Apex/root domain OK Blog: Root domain on CDN and performance No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com Global Anycast network
HTTP/2
HTTP/3 HTTP/3 Prioritization
WebSockets CDN Guide: WebSockets Technology for bidirectional communication in client-server apps WebSockets docs
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6?
Compression CDN Guide: Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery 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 CDN Guide: Origin Shield One POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP 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 Guide: Serve Stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble Only 'stale while revalidate'
Purge CDN Guide: Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN Purge Speed
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

Cloudflare 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

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