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Cloudflare API Gateway

byCloudflare
in API Protection
4.3

Overview

Product Information on Cloudflare API Gateway

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Cloudflare API Gateway?

Cloudflare API Gateway is a software designed to manage, secure, and control API traffic. It provides centralized control over API authentication, rate limiting, schema validation, threat detection, and analytics. The software helps organizations protect their APIs from abuse, maintain up-time, and reduce operational complexity by detecting and mitigating API-based threats. It enables visibility into API usage patterns and streamlines the process of setting security and access policies for APIs. By offering monitoring and reporting capabilities, the software supports businesses in ensuring compliance with internal and external requirements while protecting sensitive workloads and reducing the surface area for potential attacks.

Cloudflare API Gateway Pricing

Cloudflare API Gateway software uses a usage-based pricing model that is structured around the number of API requests processed. Pricing tiers vary depending on the volume of requests and additional features such as enhanced security or analytics. This software offers flexible plans to accommodate different scales of API traffic, with costs increasing as more requests and advanced functionalities are utilized.

Overall experience with Cloudflare API Gateway

It Associate
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Integration and Security Strengths Noted With Cloudflare API Gateway Deployment”

4.0
Apr 7, 2026
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Product Manager
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Great global performance and security, limited on transformations and orchestration”

3.0
Feb 6, 2026
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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 API Gateway Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(67 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
36%
4 Star
55%
3 Star
9%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • It Associate
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Integration and Security Strengths Noted With Cloudflare API Gateway Deployment

    4.0
    Apr 7, 2026
    We've been using Cloudflare API Gateway in our production environment, and overall the experience has been very positive. It integrates seamlessly with the Cloudflare ecosystem, which helped us improve API performance and security without adding extra optional overhead. The edge-based architecture significantly reduced latency, and features like rate limiting, WAF integration, and bot protection worked reliably out of the box. However, observability and deep debugging capabilities are somewhat limited, and documentation can be fragmented in some areas. Despite that, it remains a strong choice for modern applications.
  • It Associate
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Integration and Security Strengths Noted With Cloudflare API Gateway Deployment

    4.0
    Apr 7, 2026
    We've been using Cloudflare API Gateway in our production environment, and overall the experience has been very positive. It integrates seamlessly with the Cloudflare ecosystem, which helped us improve API performance and security without adding extra optional overhead. The edge-based architecture significantly reduced latency, and features like rate limiting, WAF integration, and bot protection worked reliably out of the box. However, observability and deep debugging capabilities are somewhat limited, and documentation can be fragmented in some areas. Despite that, it remains a strong choice for modern applications.
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User Sentiment About Cloudflare API Gateway
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Cloudflare API Gateway Likes & Dislikes

Like

What I like most is how easy it is to integrate and scale without worrying about infrastructure. The platform handles traffic efficiently at the edge, improves performance globally, and provides strong built-in security features. This allows us to focus more on product development rather than managing API infrastructure.

Like

What I like most is how easy it is to integrate and scale without worrying about infrastructure. The platform handles traffic efficiently at the edge, improves performance globally, and provides strong built-in security features. This allows us to focus more on product development rather than managing API infrastructure.

Like

What I like most is how easy it is to integrate and scale without worrying about infrastructure. The platform handles traffic efficiently at the edge, improves performance globally, and provides strong built-in security features. This allows us to focus more on product development rather than managing API infrastructure.

Dislike

Enterprise tier level paywall for features. Things like timeout customisation aren't available on all plans. Reporting latency is not real-time, making things harder to debug in real-time. Sequence analitics like detecting a skipped step isn't available on all plans.

Dislike

Enterprise tier level paywall for features. Things like timeout customisation aren't available on all plans. Reporting latency is not real-time, making things harder to debug in real-time. Sequence analitics like detecting a skipped step isn't available on all plans.

Dislike

Enterprise tier level paywall for features. Things like timeout customisation aren't available on all plans. Reporting latency is not real-time, making things harder to debug in real-time. Sequence analitics like detecting a skipped step isn't available on all plans.