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 |
Stream
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| Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization |
Image Resizing, Mirage, Polish
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| DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain |
DNS
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| WAFWeb Application Firewall |
Cloud Web Application Firewall
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| Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. |
DDoS Protection
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| Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs |
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| Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers |
Workers
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Network
Cloudflare has datacenters on all continents. Their network of 150+ 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.
| Region | POPs | Locations |
|---|---|---|
| North America | 43 |
Ashburn - Atlanta - Boston - Charlotte - Chicago - Columbus - Dallas - Denver - Detroit - 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 - Tampa - Tallahassee
Calgary - Montreal - Saskatoon - Toronto - Vancouver - Winnipeg |
| Latin America | 11 |
Buenos Aires
Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo
Valparaíso
Bogotá - Medellin
Willemstad
Quito
Tegucigalpa
Mexico City
Panama City
Lima
Paramaribo |
| Europe | 37 |
Vienna
Brussels
Sofia
Zurich
Prague
Berlin - Dusseldorf - Frankfurt - Hamburg - Munich
Copenhagen
Talinn
Barcelona - Madrid
Helsinki
Marseille - Paris - Reunion
Edinburgh - London - Manchester
Athens
Zagreb
Budapest
Dublin
Reykjavík
Rome - Milan
Luxembourg City
Riga
Amsterdam
Oslo
Warsaw
Lisbon
Bucharest
Belgrade
Stockholm |
| Russia & CIS | 5 |
Yerevan
Chișinău
Moscow - St. Petersburg
Kiev |
| Asia excl. China | 16 |
Bandar Seri Begawan
Hong Kong
Osaka - Tokyo
Vientiane
Chennai - New Delhi - Mumbai
Phnom Penh
Seoul
Colombo
Ulaanbaatar
Macau
Johor Bahru, Kuala Lumpur
Manila
Islamabad - Karachi - Lahore
Singapore
Bangkok
Taipei
Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh |
| China | 21 |
Partnership with Baidu; China POPs are part of the global network
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| Oceania | 5 |
Brisbane - Melbourne - Perth - Sydney
Auckland |
| Middle-East | 10 |
Dubai
Manama
Tel Aviv
Baghdad
Kuwait City
Beirut
Muscat
Doha
Riyadh
Istanbul |
| Africa | 9 |
Luanda
Djibouti
Cairo
Mombasa
Monrovia
Port Louis
Lagos
Sainte-Marie
Cape Town - Durban - Johannesburg |
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 |
Features
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? |
Instant
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Apex/root domain OK  No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com |
Global Anycast network
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| HTTP/2 |
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| IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? |
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| Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery |
Resend from origin, or compress on edge
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| Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? |
HTTP and HTTPS
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| Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value? |
Can be an IP address
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| Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP |
Tiered Cache; part of the paid add-on Argo
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| Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin |
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| Cache control - CDN caching |
Page rules for overriding caching headers
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| Cache control - client caching |
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| Serve Stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble |
Only 'stale while revalidate'
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| Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN |
~ 5 seconds
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| Purge - capabilities |
Purge per file and purge all
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| Analytics |
Web analytics, threats and more
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| Log files |
Only for Enterprise customers
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| API |
Purge, analytics, configuration
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| HTTPS & Content Protection | |
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| CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net |
SNI
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| Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate |
More info
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| Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN |
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| Token authentication |
More info
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| Geo blocking |
Access Rules
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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 |
Access Rules
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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.
| Customer support | |
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| Documentation |
Yes, public. Cloudflare Community.
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| Humans |
Email support for all. Phone only for Enterprise customers
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Contact Cloudflare
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