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Cloudflare CDN

byCloudflare
in Edge Distribution Platforms
4.5

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

Engineer
50M - 250M USD, Construction
FAVORABLE

“Market leading CDN and reverse proxy platform with excellent global infrastructure, integrated DDoS protection, strong security features and very easy deployment for publicly exposed services”

5.0
Mar 16, 2026
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Engineer
500M - 1B USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Great CDN capabilities, but downtime cam impact the world”

3.0
Mar 10, 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 CDN Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(328 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
55%
4 Star
42%
3 Star
2%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    Market leading CDN and reverse proxy platform with excellent global infrastructure, integrated DDoS protection, strong security features and very easy deployment for publicly exposed services

    5.0
    Mar 16, 2026
    We selected Cloudflare because they are widely recognized as the market leader in the CDN and reverse proxy space. Initially, we started using Cloudflare because of their extremely fast DNS resolvers, which are among the fastest available globally. Over time we expanded our usage and now rely on Cloudflare as the CDN and reverse proxy for all of our publicly exposed services. The platform provides a combination of CDN capabilities, integrated DDoS protection, and reverse proxy functionality that makes it very easy to securely expose services to the internet. Overall, Cloudflare offers a very mature platform that abstracts a lot of operational complexity and allows us to focus more on our applications rather than on infrastructure management.
  • Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    Market leading CDN and reverse proxy platform with excellent global infrastructure, integrated DDoS protection, strong security features and very easy deployment for publicly exposed services

    5.0
    Mar 16, 2026
    We selected Cloudflare because they are widely recognized as the market leader in the CDN and reverse proxy space. Initially, we started using Cloudflare because of their extremely fast DNS resolvers, which are among the fastest available globally. Over time we expanded our usage and now rely on Cloudflare as the CDN and reverse proxy for all of our publicly exposed services. The platform provides a combination of CDN capabilities, integrated DDoS protection, and reverse proxy functionality that makes it very easy to securely expose services to the internet. Overall, Cloudflare offers a very mature platform that abstracts a lot of operational complexity and allows us to focus more on our applications rather than on infrastructure management.
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User Sentiment About Cloudflare CDN
Reviewer Insights for: Cloudflare CDN
Deciding Factors: Cloudflare CDN Vs. Market Average
Performance of Cloudflare CDN Across Market Features

Cloudflare CDN Likes & Dislikes

Like

One of the biggest advantages is Cloudflares Anycast IP architecture combined with their large global network of data centers. This allows traffic to be routed efficiently and improves both latency and availability for our services. The CDN capabilities significantly improve performance by caching and distributing content closer to users worldwide. Another major benefit is the built-in DDoS protection, which provides strong protection for publicly exposed services without requiring additional infrastructure. Automatic SSL encryption also simplifies certificate management considerably. In addition to that, the platform offers a wide range of security features that help protect services from various types of attacks. Overall, Cloudflare removes a lot of complexity from operating internet-facing infrastructure.

Like

One of the biggest advantages is Cloudflares Anycast IP architecture combined with their large global network of data centers. This allows traffic to be routed efficiently and improves both latency and availability for our services. The CDN capabilities significantly improve performance by caching and distributing content closer to users worldwide. Another major benefit is the built-in DDoS protection, which provides strong protection for publicly exposed services without requiring additional infrastructure. Automatic SSL encryption also simplifies certificate management considerably. In addition to that, the platform offers a wide range of security features that help protect services from various types of attacks. Overall, Cloudflare removes a lot of complexity from operating internet-facing infrastructure.

Like

One of the biggest advantages is Cloudflares Anycast IP architecture combined with their large global network of data centers. This allows traffic to be routed efficiently and improves both latency and availability for our services. The CDN capabilities significantly improve performance by caching and distributing content closer to users worldwide. Another major benefit is the built-in DDoS protection, which provides strong protection for publicly exposed services without requiring additional infrastructure. Automatic SSL encryption also simplifies certificate management considerably. In addition to that, the platform offers a wide range of security features that help protect services from various types of attacks. Overall, Cloudflare removes a lot of complexity from operating internet-facing infrastructure.

Dislike

Reliability during outages: When Cloudflare experiences downtime, it can affect a large number of websites at once since so many services depend on it. Another aspect that can be frustrating is that troubleshooting issues can be difficult. Because Cloudflare sits between the user and the origin server, it can sometimes be hard to determine whether a problem is coming from Cloudflare, DNS configuration, caching rules or the origin server itself.

Dislike

Reliability during outages: When Cloudflare experiences downtime, it can affect a large number of websites at once since so many services depend on it. Another aspect that can be frustrating is that troubleshooting issues can be difficult. Because Cloudflare sits between the user and the origin server, it can sometimes be hard to determine whether a problem is coming from Cloudflare, DNS configuration, caching rules or the origin server itself.

Dislike

Reliability during outages: When Cloudflare experiences downtime, it can affect a large number of websites at once since so many services depend on it. Another aspect that can be frustrating is that troubleshooting issues can be difficult. Because Cloudflare sits between the user and the origin server, it can sometimes be hard to determine whether a problem is coming from Cloudflare, DNS configuration, caching rules or the origin server itself.