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4.6

Overview

Product Information on Cloudflare

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is a software that provides a suite of cloud-based solutions designed to enhance the security, performance, and reliability of websites and internet applications. This software acts as an intermediary between visitors and a user's hosting provider, offering features such as distributed denial-of-service attack mitigation, content delivery network services, domain name system resolution, and web application firewall protection. Cloudflare helps protect against a range of cyber threats, improves page load times by caching content and routing traffic efficiently, and ensures consistent accessibility to online resources. It enables organizations to manage traffic, enforce access controls, and monitor web performance through centralized tools, addressing business needs related to online security, speed, and uptime.

Cloudflare Pricing

Cloudflare software offers a tiered pricing model that includes a free basic plan with limited features and several paid plans that provide additional capabilities, resource allocations, and support options. The paid tiers are priced on a per-domain per-month basis, and enterprise-level agreements may be customized according to specific requirements.

Overall experience with Cloudflare

It Security & Risk Management Associate
50M - 250M USD, Transportation
FAVORABLE

“Cloudflare Strengthens Security, UI Changes Sometimes Present Navigation Challenges”

5.0
Mar 11, 2026
Cloudflare is excellent and just works. The WAF and page rules allow for greatly improving security posture without needing to modify infrastructure or code.
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Cloudflare, is a provider of WAAP, SASE, SSE, SD-WAN, CDN, and Edge Developer services. Cloudflare empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare delivers all services from a single intelligent global network platform, providing customers with a unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.

Company Details

Updated 2nd April 2026
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2009
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
5001 - 10000
Website
https://www.cloudflare.com

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Cloudflare Likes & Dislikes

Like

The WAF is by far the best aspect of Cloudflare. With managed rules to protect against a wide array of attacks/CVEs and custom rules to manage a near infinite number of other things, it is one of my favorite tools as a security engineer.

Like

The wide range of services are offered, including Cloudflare CDN, Cloudflare DDoS Protection, DNS, security features and more... Everything can be managed from a single online platform. Performs well under high traffic

Like

Modern and user friendly interface, free plan with ddos protection and many other useful tools at no extra charge.

Dislike

- Sometimes interactions with redirects and page rules can be a bit unclear and cause some issues - Cloudflare occasionally updates their UI, shifting and rearranging things. This sometimes causes some trouble in finding the menu for something you are used to using. - The cost of 'enterprise' domains can be a bit steep depending on your org size

Dislike

Need some experience to understand all the features. There are many options !

Dislike

Sometimes the configuration can be a bit clunky, wizards can be made clearer and fool proof. For example, there are 2 ways to redirect domains, bulk redirect and rules with 2 different interfaces each. This creates confusion.

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  • It Security & Risk Management Associate
    50M-1B USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    Cloudflare Strengthens Security, UI Changes Sometimes Present Navigation Challenges

    5.0
    Mar 11, 2026
    Cloudflare is excellent and just works. The WAF and page rules allow for greatly improving security posture without needing to modify infrastructure or code.
  • Devops
    10B+ USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Cloudflare : strong all in one platform for web protection and performances

    5.0
    Feb 4, 2026
    Cloudflare is a reliable platform in our environment, covering performance, security and avaibility through a single global service. It helps us to improve website speed, protect application and ensure high services avaibility. The solution is really easy to deploy, work at scale and provides a good configuration between automation and control.
  • IT MANAGER
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
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    Comprehensive Platform Offers Robust DDoS Protection and Free Domain Management Tools

    4.0
    Oct 19, 2025
    Very solid platform with a nice and easy to use interface, their ddos protection is top of the line, their free plan has very useful tools and they don't charge extra for domain registration and renewal. Very highly recommended.
  • Systems Administrator
    50M-1B USD
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    Cloudflare Tunnels Enable Remote Access Without VPN Need for Self-Hosted Services

    4.0
    Feb 12, 2026
    Cloudflare is an excellent all-in-one solution. The game changer for me is Cloudflare tunnels and Cloudflare access.
  • PROJECT MANAGER
    10B+ USD
    Energy and Utilities
    Review Source

    Cloudflare, a solution all in one place for performance, security and visibility

    5.0
    Oct 17, 2025
    It's a reliable and comprehensive platform that greatly simplifies network and security management. It provides a lot of dashboards that allow you to see everything.
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