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

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Category
CDN
Free tier
Yes
Entry paid plan
Pro plan: $20/month billed annually, or $25/month billed monthly.
Regions
Not documented
01.

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.

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02.

What the documentation says.

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Pricing

Free tier

Yes

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  • Cloudflare Network & CDN Plans ↗

    “$0 /month. Fast, Easy-to-use DNS, Unmetered DDoS Protection, CDN, Universal SSL Certificate, and Web Application Firewall (WAF).”

    Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing

Entry paid plan

Pro plan: $20/month billed annually, or $25/month billed monthly.

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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.

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CDN

Image optimization

Lossless Image Optimization included from the Pro plan, alongside AMP support.

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