Company
Cloudflare provides a global CDN with unique performance capabilities and a strong focus on security. The company has a global infrastructure built from the ground up using only next-generation, high-performance equipment—no legacy software or hardware. The result is a CDN that's easy to set up, affordable, and built to continuously adapt and integrate emerging technologies to meet future needs of everyone's Internet properties.
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Products
Cloudflare has a wide range of performance and security products for businesses of all sizes. CDN, DNS, video streaming and delivery, WAF, Bot Management, and more. Cloudflare also has solutions for remote working teams and building serverless applications.
View the table below for more insight into Cloudflare products.
Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.
= Yes
= Sort of/partially
= No
= Unknown
| Product | |
|---|---|
| Dynamic content delivery | |
| Small file delivery | |
| Large file delivery | |
| Live video | |
| Video on demand | Stream |
| Image Optimization | Image Resizing, Mirage, Polish |
| DNS | DNS |
| WAF | Cloud Web Application Firewall |
| Anti-DDoS | DDoS Protection |
| Private CDN | |
| Edge Compute | Workers |
Network
Cloudflare has datacenters on all continents. Their network of 150+ POPs continues includes 20+ POPs in mainland China.
Cloudflare network map , China delivery
Click the country flag icon to navigate to a page showing all CDNs with POP(s) in that country.
Locations marked with * are not active yet but on the CDN's roadmap.
| Region | POPs | Locations |
|---|---|---|
| North America | 46 |  Ashburn - Atlanta - Boston - Buffalo - Charlotte - Chicago - Columbus - Dallas - Denver - Detroit - Honolulu - Houston - Indianapolis - Jacksonville - Kansas City - Las Vegas - Los Angeles - Mcallen - Memphis - Miami - Minneapolis - Montgomery - Nashville - Newark - Norfolk - Omaha - Philadelphia - Phoenix - Pittsburgh - Portland - Richmond - Sacramento - Salt Lake City - San Diego - San Jose - Seattle - St. Louis - Tallahassee - Tampa Calgary - Montreal - Ottawa - Saskatoon - Toronto - Vancouver - Winnipeg |
| Latin America | 23 |  Buenos Aires - Cordoba - Neuquen Curitiba - Fortaleza - Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo Arica - Valparaíso Bogotá - Medellin Willemstad Quito St George's Guatemala City Tegucigalpa Port-Au-Prince Mexico City - Queretaro Panama City Lima Asuncion Paramaribo |
| Europe | 42 |  Vienna Brussels Sofia Geneva - Zurich Nicosia Prague Berlin - Dusseldorf - Frankfurt - Hamburg - Munich Copenhagen Talinn Barcelona - Madrid Helsinki Marseille - Paris Edinburgh - London - Manchester Athens - Thessaloniki Zagreb Budapest Cork - Dublin Reykjavík Rome - Milan Luxembourg City Riga Amsterdam Oslo Warsaw Lisbon Bucharest Belgrade Gothenburg - Stockholm Vilnius |
| Russia & CIS | 6 |  Yerevan Baku Chișinău Moscow - St. Petersburg Kiev |
| Asia excl. China | 35 |  Chittagong - Dhaka Bandar Seri Begawan Thimphu Hong Kong Osaka - Tokyo Vientiane Bangalore - Chennai - Hyderabad - Kolkata - Mumbai - Nagpur - New Delhi Jakarta Phnom Penh Seoul Colombo Ulaanbaatar Macau Male Johor Bahru - Kuala Lumpur Kathmandu Cebu City - Manila Islamabad - Karachi - Lahore Singapore Bangkok Taipei Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh |
| China | 17 |  Partnership with Baidu; China POPs are part of the global network |
| Oceania | 6 |  Brisbane - Melbourne - Perth - Sydney Noumea Auckland |
| Middle-East | 12 |  Dubai Manama Tel Aviv Baghdad Amman Kuwait City Beirut Muscat Doha Ramallah Riyadh Istanbul |
| Africa | 17 |  Luanda Djibouti Cairo Mombasa Monrovia Casablanca Antananarivo Port Louis Maputo Lagos Sainte-Marie Kigali Dakar Dar es Salaam Cape Town - Durban - Johannesburg |
Pricing
Cloudflare charges for content delivery at flat monthly rates: you never pay for GBs or requests. The cheapest plan is free 'for people with personal or hobby projects that aren’t business-critical'. The Pro and Business plans are $20/month/domain and $200/month/domain, respectively. Cloudflare has many paid add-ons, like Dedicated SSL Certificates, Load Balancing, Argo Smart Routing, and Rate Limiting. Enterprise plans have custom pricing.
Cloudflare pricing, Compare features
| Pricing & contract duration | |
|---|---|
| Minimum contract term | None |
| Minimum monthly costs | $0 |
| Requests costs | None |
| Ingress costs | None |
| NA/EU traffic (low volume) | $0 |
| APAC traffic (low volume) | $0 |
| LATAM traffic (low volume) | $0 |
Features
View the tables below for more insight into the features Cloudflare supports.
Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.
- = Yes
- = Sort of/partially
- = No
= Extra costs- = Unknown
| Web acceleration | |
|---|---|
| Instant setup | |
| Change propagation delay | Instant |
Apex/root domain OK  |
Global Anycast network |
| HTTP/2 | |
| IPv6 | |
| Compression |
Resend from origin, or compress on edge |
| Origin pull - protocol | HTTP and HTTPS |
| Origin pull - Host header | Can be an IP address |
| Origin Shield |
Tiered Cache; part of the paid add-on Argo |
| Push / upload | |
| Cache control - CDN caching | Page rules for overriding caching headers |
| Cache control - client caching | |
| Serve Stale |
Only 'stale while revalidate' |
| Purge |
~ 5 seconds |
| Purge - capabilities | Purge per file and purge all |
| Analytics | Web analytics, threats and more |
| Log files | Only for Enterprise customers |
| API | Purge, analytics, configuration |
| HTTPS & Content Protection | |
|---|---|
| CDN domain HTTPS | SNI |
| Customer domain HTTPS | More info |
| Customer cert HTTPS | |
| Token authentication | More info |
| Geo blocking | Access Rules |
| Hotlink protection | |
| Basic authentication | |
| IP white/blacklisting | Access Rules |
Support
The level of support varies per price plan. Free users get 'Email only support with median response time of 13 hours'. Response times improve at higher plans. Only Enterprise customers get phone support.
| Customer support | |
|---|---|
| Documentation | Yes, public. Cloudflare Community. |
| Humans | Email support for all. Phone only for Enterprise customers |