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Cloudflare DDoS Protection

byCloudflare
in DDoS Mitigation Solutions
4.5

Overview

Product Information on Cloudflare DDoS Protection

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Cloudflare DDoS Protection?

Cloudflare DDoS Protection is a software designed to identify and mitigate Distributed Denial of Service attacks across web applications and networks. It operates by monitoring traffic patterns in real time and filtering malicious requests while allowing legitimate activity. The software uses various techniques including rate limiting, anomaly detection, and challenge mechanisms to absorb and neutralize large-scale attacks. It aims to prevent service interruptions, reduce downtime, and maintain accessibility for users by automatically responding to volumetric, protocol, and application layer threats. The software is equipped with configurable rules and analytics to give organizations control over their defenses while addressing risks related to traffic surges and malicious activity.

Cloudflare DDoS Protection Pricing

Cloudflare DDoS Protection software uses a tiered pricing model based on features, protection level, and website traffic volume. The software offers multiple plans, including a free plan with basic protection and paid plans that provide advanced mitigation capabilities and higher resource limits. Pricing structure varies depending on selected plan and enterprise options, with monthly and annual billing cycles available.

Overall experience with Cloudflare DDoS Protection

SECURITY ANALYST
<50M USD, Insurance (except health)
FAVORABLE

“Large Network Capacity Enables Effective Protection Against Massive DDoS Incidents”

5.0
Nov 20, 2025
Cloudflare DDoS Protection is a great addition to our security posture. It's easy to manage and protects our organization from downtime from potential DDoS attacks.
FULLSTACK ENGINEER IT
50M - 250M USD, Telecommunication
CRITICAL

“How Effective is Cloudflare's HTTP DDoS Protection: An Insightful Dig”

1.0
Oct 13, 2024
I mainly use Cloudflare HTTP DDoS Protection. And its really bad. Cloudflare's HTTP DDoS Protection always kicks in too late, often after a large volume of attacks has hit the origin server before the protection kicks in. And even when the protection kicks in, only a little more than 50% of the traffic is mitigated, and the rest of the attack traffic just bypasses all of the protections. Also when I contacted support, they never give you any useful help or response. I am figuring out all the proper settings and writing my own custom WAF rules, all by myself. Yet they ask me to purchase their support service.

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 DDoS Protection Likes & Dislikes

Like

Cloudflare's network is incredibly large. This means it can easily stop large-scale DDoS attacks. The alerts Cloudflare generates are instant and descriptive. We receive emails when suspected attacks are in place, including which site specifically is being targeted. Cloudflare's support is also terrific. The engineers we worked with that helped us with implementation and answered our questions were very knowledgeable.

Like

At least the chart could be updated in real time, so I can see why my origin server is down and how ineffective Cloudflare's HTTP DDoS Protection is.

Like

Automatic mitigation capabilities that filter large volumes of malicious traffic without impacting legitimate users. It works transparently and doesn't require a lot of intervention or configuration

Dislike

Choosing Cloudflare's DDoS protection essentially means you are locked into Cloudflare's ecosystem, especially when looking at other solutions to enhance your security posture. Cloudflare's services are susceptible to going down as well. Most recently, they had a global outage that affected some of our organization's sites. Lastly, setup and maintenance may be considered very technical. The appropriate admin in your organization needs to have a good understanding to make changes as needed.

Dislike

The ineffectiveness of Cloudflare's HTTP DDoS protection. As I mentioned before, the DDoS protection always kicks in too late, often after the origin server has already been dead. And they can only block a bit more than 50% of total attack.

Dislike

Some mitigation actions and internal decisions to CloudFlare DDoS protection are not fully visible which can make it harder to understand how attacks are handled. Advanced configuration may also require deeper expertives

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Peer Discussions

Cloudflare DDoS Protection Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(286 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
62%
4 Star
35%
3 Star
3%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Planning & Transition

4.8

Delivery & Execution

4.8

Integration & Deployment

4.7

Service & Support

4.4

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • SECURITY ANALYST
    <50M USD
    Insurance (except health)
    Review Source

    Large Network Capacity Enables Effective Protection Against Massive DDoS Incidents

    5.0
    Nov 20, 2025
    Cloudflare DDoS Protection is a great addition to our security posture. It's easy to manage and protects our organization from downtime from potential DDoS attacks.
  • Devops
    10B+ USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Cloudflare DDoS Protection Detects Threats Yet Lacks Detailed Public Mitigation Insights

    4.0
    Feb 3, 2026
    We are using Cloudflare DDoS protection to protect our online services from malicious attack attempts. . It operates in the background, automatically detecting and mitigating attacks which helps to maintain service stability and availability. Overall it provides strong protection and contributes of the stability of our production environments.
  • IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Cloudflare Offers Multi-Layered DDoS Protection With Well-Rated Layer 7 Defense

    4.0
    Dec 2, 2025
    Cloudflare is providing proofed protection against DDoS, at different layers, industry-leading capabilities
  • SECURITY ANALYST
    1B-10B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Cloudflare Protection Effective

    5.0
    Sep 12, 2025
    No issues with the protection so far, the cloudflare team also offered my time with an outstanding service when needed.
  • PROJECT MANAGER
    10B+ USD
    Energy and Utilities
    Review Source

    Minimal Maintenance Needed While DDOS Attacks Managed Without Performance Impacts

    5.0
    Oct 17, 2025
    The protection is strong and requires very little maintenance. When a DDOS attack happens, we receive an email to inform us that it has been managed without any impacts.
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