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Cloudflare
Who runs Cloudflare, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest content delivery network alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- bunny.net
Measured from Cloudflare’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Cloudflare01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Cloudflare
Cloudflare cloudflare.com
Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications
Wikidata: American internet infrastructure and website security company
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- First copy in the Internet Archive ↗
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Cloudflare tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
4 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 2 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Cloudflare
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Cloudflare, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Cloudflare match.
- 01
Powering the best of the internet | Fastly
Fastly's edge cloud platform delivers faster, safer, and more scalable sites and apps to customers. Elevate your edge CDN, video delivery, security, and more.
Very close - 02
KeyCDN - Content delivery made easy
KeyCDN is a high performance content delivery network (CDN). Our global network will deliver any digital content, such as a website, software, or game, at a blazing fast speed.
Very close - 03
Gcore | Cloud, Edge, Security, and AI. Unified to the core.
Launch faster, stay protected, and scale on your terms with Gcore. Run cloud, edge, security, and AI on EU-owned infrastructure built for real traffic.
Very close - 04
Content Delivery Network (CDN) | CDN77.com
Experience unmatched CDN performance at the best prices, powered by 330 Tbps network across 6 continents. Start testing with us today!
Very close - 05
Leading Cloud Enterprise Security Provider for Zero Trust
Zscaler is a leading cloud enterprise security provider helping global businesses adopt zero trust for secure digital transformation.
Very close - 06
Cyber Security Leader | Imperva, Inc.
Imperva provides complete cyber security by protecting what really matters most—your data and applications—whether on-premises or in the cloud.
Very close - 07
DDoS-Guard | Reliable DDoS Protection & Mitigation
DDoS protection for companies and businesses of any level. ✔️ 4 Tbps scrubbing capacity. ✔️882 000+ projects under protection. ✔️ No hidden charges
Very close - 08
Edgio
American technology company
Very close - 09
Netskope: modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era
Secure and accelerate your cloud, data, and AI everywhere. Achieve unified visibility, advanced SASE & SSE protection, and optimized performance
Very close - 10
Sucuri - Complete Website Security, Protection & Monitoring
Website security made simple—Sucuri offers fast malware cleanup, reliable monitoring, and powerful protection for any CMS.
Very close - 11
Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel
The autonomous stack for every app and agent.
Very close - 12
Advanced Website Protection for Unmatched Cyber Defense
Safeguard your devices with Comodo's advanced endpoint protection and protect your websites from malware and cyber threats. Secure your site now!
Very close - 13
Push your ideas to the web | Netlify
Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
Very close - 14
Website Security Monitoring & Malware Protection | SiteLock
Secure your website with our security monitoring and protection services. Protect data, prevent cyberattacks, and ensure peace of mind with SiteLock solutions.
Very close - 15
NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
Very close - 16
Hybrid Multicloud App Security & Delivery for the AI Era | F5
Unified delivery & security for applications, APIs, & AI workloads across any infrastructure, trusted by 85% of the Fortune 500. Secure your digital ecosystem.
Very close - 17
Best-Rated DNS Filtering Service | DNS Security | DNSFilter
The DNS filtering service trusted by 57,000+ organizations. DNSFilter's DNS security software blocks malware, phishing, and unwanted sites in minutes.
Very close - 18
Island | The Enterprise Agentic Control Plane | AI, Network, Data Protection
Govern human and AI workflows with Island’s Enterprise Agentic Control Plane. Streamline ZTNA, enforce browser DLP, and optimize digital experiences.
Very close - 19
Kasada | Stopping Automated Threats | Web & API Protection
Kasada transcends bot management with a radical approach to defeat automated threats and online fraud. Web and API protection that lasts.
Very close - 20
Tailscale | Secure Connectivity for AI, IoT & Multi-Cloud
The connectivity platform for devs, IT, and security teams. Zero Trust identity-based access that deploys in minutes and scales to every resource. Start free.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Cloudflare’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Cloudflare uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Cloudflare adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 18 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Cloudflare’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Astro meta generator: Astro v6.3.7
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:199.15.212.0/22 ip4:173.245.48.0/20 include:_spf.google.co…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=5096d01ff2cf194285dd51cae18f24fa9c26dc928cebac363…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577ab469e337c16-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:199.15.212.0/22 ip4:173.245.48.0/20 include:_spf.google.co…
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms70274184
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 ip4:199.15.212.0/22 ip4:173.245.48.0/20 include:_spf.google.co…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=DNnWJoArJobFJKhJ
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=WxxKyN9aLnjEsoOjUYI6T0bb5vcqmKzaIkC9Rx2…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=oOyaVnHC-OiFoR1BPvetNA
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=C7thfNeXVahkVhniiqTI1iSVnElKR_kBBtnEHkeGDlo
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=h9mm6zopj6p2po54woa16m5bskm6oo
- Miro TXT miro-verification=bdd7dfa0a49adfb43ad6ddfaf797633246c07356
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:199.15.212.0/22 ip4:173.245.48.0/20 include:_spf.google.co…
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_7LFBvOO9SIigypFG2xRlMA
Sitemaps
, 74 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- nginx · not on cloudflare.com 6/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- Adobe · not on cloudflare.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on cloudflare.com 5/20
- Miro 5/20
- OpenAI · not on cloudflare.com 5/20
- jQuery · not on cloudflare.com 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on cloudflare.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on cloudflare.com 4/20
- PHP · not on cloudflare.com 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on cloudflare.com 3/20