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.
Cloudflare website
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.
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Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... |
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Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) |
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Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) |
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Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? |
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Video on demandDelivery of on demand video |
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Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization |
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DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain |
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WAFWeb Application Firewall |
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Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. |
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Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs |
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Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers |
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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.
Locations marked with * are not active yet but on the CDN's roadmap.
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.
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Web acceleration | |
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Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. |
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Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? |
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Apex/root domain OK |
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HTTP/2 |
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IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? |
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Compression |
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Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? |
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Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value? |
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Origin Shield |
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Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin |
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Cache control - CDN caching |
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Cache control - client caching |
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Serve Stale |
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Purge |
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Purge - capabilities |
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Analytics |
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Log files |
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API |
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HTTPS & Content Protection | |
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CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net |
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Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate |
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Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN |
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Token authentication |
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Geo blocking |
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Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content |
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Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content |
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IP white/blacklisting |
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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.
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Documentation |
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