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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.

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01 · 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.
- Google Tag ManagerUS
Privacy-friendly analytics

Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
- Cloudflare Web AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Cloudflare

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Cloudflare, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than Cloudflare No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

6 of the 60 sites closest to Cloudflare match.

01
NextDNS nextdns.io Top 10K English No trackers

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.
Compare NextDNS with Cloudflare →
Very close
02
ZoneEdit zoneedit.com Top 10K English No trackers

ZoneEdit – Managed DNS & Domain Services
Compare ZoneEdit with Cloudflare →
Very close
03
Radix radix.website English No trackers

The world’s largest portfolio registry for new domains | Radix Registry

Radix is a leading new domain registry, offering an extensive domain portfolio that empowers digital identities across the globe.
Compare Radix with Cloudflare →
Very close
04
Centinel Analytica centinel-analytica.com Top 1K English No trackers

Centinel Analytica | Bot and AI crawler protection

Centinel Analytica detects real-browser automation, residential-proxy scrapers and spoofed AI crawlers, verifies trusted bots and applies your access policy.
Compare Centinel Analytica with Cloudflare →
Very close
05
InterServer trouble-free.net Top 10K English No trackers

InterServer Privacy Policy

InterServer provides world class web hosting, dedicated servers and internet services.
Compare InterServer with Cloudflare →
Very close
06
DreamHost dreamhost.com Top 1K English No trackers

Web Hosting Built for Growth - DreamHost

DreamHost offers domain names, web hosting, managed WordPress hosting, business email, and much more. 100% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support. Sign up today!
Compare DreamHost with Cloudflare →
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: 9,212
Vector: 384-d
Query: 34 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.