# Cloudflare

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/cdn/cloudflare-cdn/

Cloudflare's core network plans — CDN, DDoS protection and WAF bundled into flat tiers rather than metered bandwidth.

## Who it suits

Teams that want CDN, DDoS protection and WAF bundled together and effectively unmetered on bandwidth — the pricing axis here is feature tier, not gigabytes served.

Consider something else if The workload needs Cloudflare's edge-compute or storage products alongside the CDN — those are priced and profiled separately (see Cloudflare Pages, Cloudflare R2), not part of this plan.

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/network-cdn/), read 2026-09-11)
- Entry paid plan: Pro plan: $20/month billed annually, or $25/month billed monthly. ([source](https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/network-cdn/), read 2026-09-11)
- Pricing model: Tiered flat-rate monthly plans (Free, Pro, Business, Enterprise) that scale by feature set — bandwidth itself is unmetered on every plan, unlike most CDNs in this category. ([source](https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/network-cdn/), read 2026-09-11)

### CDN

- Image optimization: Lossless Image Optimization included from the Pro plan, alongside AMP support. ([source](https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/network-cdn/), read 2026-09-11)

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- [Cloudflare vs Amazon CloudFront](https://inetgeek.com/compare/amazon-cloudfront-vs-cloudflare-cdn/)
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