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Cloudflare CDN

byCloudflare
in Edge Distribution Platforms
4.4

Overview

Product Information on Cloudflare CDN

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Cloudflare CDN?

Cloudflare CDN is a software designed to distribute web content and resources efficiently by caching and serving data from multiple global locations. The software helps optimize website performance, reduce latency, and decrease bandwidth usage by enabling rapid delivery of static and dynamic assets to users. It acts as a reverse proxy to filter and accelerate traffic, improves security by mitigating potential threats such as distributed denial-of-service attacks, and provides analytics regarding site traffic and security events. Businesses use the software to maintain availability, quick loading times, and reliability of their web applications and services for users worldwide.

Cloudflare CDN Pricing

Cloudflare CDN software follows a tiered pricing model, offering several plan levels that range from a free basic option to paid plans with additional features and higher resource limits. Paid tiers are charged monthly on a per-domain basis, with enterprise-level plans available through custom contracts depending on usage requirements and feature needs.

Overall experience with Cloudflare CDN

IT MANAGER
<50M USD, Transportation
FAVORABLE

“Service enhances Speed and Security but consider the global internet impact recent notable outages unearthed!”

4.0
Feb 12, 2026
I have found the service to provide a secure and significant speed improvement when using the proxy services for my websites and the DNS management.
Database Operation Manager
Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees, Education
CRITICAL

“Cloudfare CDN: seamless and expanded user reach on demand”

3.0
Jun 2, 2024
My overall experience with cloudfare cdn is really good as it has provided me smooth flow in times of high demand. It has helped me in reaching more responses as compared to times before when i was not using it.

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 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2009
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
https://www.cloudflare.com

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Cloudflare CDN Likes & Dislikes

Like

I like the ease of DNS management and security provided. I also enjoy the new features they have added like the ability to view and manage DMARC for free and the graphical reports providing analytical details to validate against Google stats for my sites.

Like

Its security feature has helped me with seamless reach out of end user. The data provided by the users are secured and not accessible to vulnerable sites

Like

Ease of use, setup and the overall management aspect makes using this product a breeze. Previous CDN was old, not updated and not easy to manage.

Dislike

When it goes down it takes the whole internet down with it. The company has had two major failures in recent memory, and it showed how many businesses rely on their services.

Dislike

The deployment of CDN on larger scale in expensive. High traffic engagement requires advancement in techniques. Failure of CDN working in case of complex infrastructure causes downtime that has effected my end user experience, engagement and access to the content..

Dislike

Some elements lack maturity of the product, but overall that is the only issue. We have paid and free options and the padi for dont seem to offer much over the free variants.

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Cloudflare CDN Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(273 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
57%
4 Star
41%
3 Star
2%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

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4.5

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4.6

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4.4

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  • IT MANAGER
    <50M USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    Service enhances Speed and Security but consider the global internet impact recent notable outages unearthed!

    4.0
    Feb 12, 2026
    I have found the service to provide a secure and significant speed improvement when using the proxy services for my websites and the DNS management.
  • MANAGER OF IT SERVICES
    <50M USD
    Real Estate
    Review Source

    Management Features Stand Out While Some Product Elements Lack Full Maturity

    4.0
    Oct 30, 2025
    Great experience, product suite is comprehensive, easy to use and receives regular updates and tweaks to make improvements and work better.
  • Senior Digital Product Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Abundance Of Cloudflare Security Tools Challenges Ease Of Access And Learning

    5.0
    Aug 19, 2025
    Our instance of Cloudflare has so many routing and security features, you almost forget it's a CDN.
  • Devops
    10B+ USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Robust global CDN that enhances speed, security and reliability

    4.0
    Feb 3, 2026
    Cloudflare CDN improves the performance and reliability of our websites. We mainly use it to deliver images efficiently on our website, it has reduced load times and improved the overall user experience, especially during high traffic periods.
  • MANAGER OF IT SERVICES
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Cloudflare CDN Enhances School Website Security and Accessibility for Community Needs

    5.0
    Nov 28, 2025
    We use Cloudflare CDN for the School websiote and it has improved site speed, realizability and security . It is also making ti easier for the school community to access information and resourses onoline , adds security layers like DDos and SSL keep our site safer it also reduce downtime .
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