Alternatives to Cloudflare
Internet edge, CDN and DNS.
- What is Cloudflare?
- Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure provider offering DNS, CDN, DDoS protection and edge compute.
- What does it do?
- Sits in front of your site as a reverse proxy to cache assets, terminate TLS and filter malicious traffic. It also runs authoritative DNS, domain registration, Workers edge functions, R2 object storage and zero-trust access.
- Who is it for?
- Anyone running a public website or API that needs DNS, caching and attack protection, from a personal blog on the free tier up to large platforms.
Pricing
Free (Pro $25/mo)
Freemium
About
Founded 2009
Top alternatives
Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Cloudflare.
Fast, affordable CDN.
Bootstrapped from Slovenia, CDN favourite.
Pay as you goBootstrapped
Dev-focused DNS.
DNS and domain registration with a documented API, and no bundled CDN or WAF to configure.
$5/moBootstrapped