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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.
10 of the 60 sites closest to Cloudflare match.
- 01
Atomile CDN Provider
Deliver high-performance static and dynamic content through a global edge network and intelligent acceleration.
Very close - 02
content delivery network
Very close - 03
零信任_安全办公平台_远程安全访问_SASE方案_终端安全-白山云
基于零信任理念和白山云全球边缘网络，「网络+安全+服务+情报」一体化建设，更安全、更快速、更经济地保障企业全球化高效办公，确保分布在全球各地的用户都能随时随地、快速安全地访问企业本地和云上资源。
Very close - 04
零信任_安全办公平台_远程安全访问_SASE方案_终端安全-白山云
基于零信任理念和白山云全球边缘网络，「网络+安全+服务+情报」一体化建设，更安全、更快速、更经济地保障企业全球化高效办公，确保分布在全球各地的用户都能随时随地、快速安全地访问企业本地和云上资源。
Very close - 05
零信任_安全办公平台_远程安全访问_SASE方案_终端安全-白山云
基于零信任理念和白山云全球边缘网络，「网络+安全+服务+情报」一体化建设，更安全、更快速、更经济地保障企业全球化高效办公，确保分布在全球各地的用户都能随时随地、快速安全地访问企业本地和云上资源。
Very close - 06
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 - 07
ZoneEdit – Managed DNS & Domain Services
Very close - 08
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.
Very close - 09
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.
Very close - 10
FedEx
American multinational delivery services company
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
- 9,209
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 38 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