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www.cloudflare.com · CDN
SEPT 2026 audit

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

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Live sites detected54,638,083via BuiltWith
Entry paid planPro plan: $20/month billed annually, or $25/month billed monthly.
Regions8 regions, listed alongside 348 cities in the Data Center Locations section of the global network page. Cloudflare's own regional grouping of its data centres, not cloud-style deployment regions.
Free tierYes

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 20 criteria comparedSources last checked

Cloudflare pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
Pro plan: $20/month billed annually, or $25/month billed monthly source ↗
Pricing model
Flat monthly plans that differ by feature set rather than by traffic: Free, Pro at $20/mo billed annually, Business at $200/mo billed… source ↗
Egress over allowance
Bundled into the plan price: Cloudflare states bandwidth costs are bundled rather than charged as cloud egress fees; no per-GB CDN rate is… source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Cloudflare pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Cloudflare pricing

6 criteria
Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerFree tier
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Credit card to startNo
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Entry paid planPro plan: $20/month billed annually, or $25/month billed monthly.
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Pricing modelFlat monthly plans that differ by feature set rather than by traffic: Free, Pro at $20/mo billed annually, Business at $200/mo billed annually, and a custom Contract tier.
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  • Cloudflare Plans ↗

    “Free For personal or hobby projects that aren't business-critical. $0 /month [...] Pro For professional websites that aren't business-critical. $20 /mo billed annually, or $25/mo billed monthly [...] Business For small businesses operating online. $200 /mo billed annually, or $250/mo billed monthly [...] Contract For mission-critical applications that are core to your business. Custom Billed annually”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

Egress over allowanceBundled into the plan price: Cloudflare states bandwidth costs are bundled rather than charged as cloud egress fees; no per-GB CDN rate is quoted.
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  • Cloudflare CDN ↗

    “Predictable, Affordable Cost [...] We exist to help kill egregious cloud egress fees. Bandwidth costs are bundled and competitively priced.”

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Infrastructure

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Regions8 regions, listed alongside 348 cities in the Data Center Locations section of the global network page. Cloudflare's own regional grouping of its data centres, not cloud-style deployment regions.
Sources (1) →
Uptime SLA100%, on Business and Enterprise only — Free and Pro carry none. Service credits are 1x on Business and 10x standard or 25x premium on Enterprise.
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  • Cloudflare Plans ↗

    “uptime SLA free - pro - business 100% contract 100% [...] uptime service credits free - pro - business 1x contract 10x (standard); 25x (premium)”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

CDN

2 criteria
Points of presence348 cities in the Data Center Locations list on Cloudflare's global network page.
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Image optimizationLossless Image Optimization included from the Pro plan, alongside AMP support.
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Compliance

10 criteria
SOC 2SOC 2 Type II attestation covering Security, Confidentiality and Availability against the AICPA Trust Service Criteria.
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ISO 27001ISO 27001:2022 certified — an Information Security Management System (ISMS) and security risk management processes certification. ISO 27017, 27018 and 27701 are listed on the same page.
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HIPAAHIPAA is listed in Cloudflare's certifications; the HIPAA AoC is obtained by contacting your account team.
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GDPR / data residencyData Localization Suite, an Enterprise-only paid add-on, chooses where Cloudflare inspects and stores data, for regimes such as GDPR.
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  • Data Localization Suite · Cloudflare Docs ↗

    “Enterprise-only paid add-on [...] The Data Localization Suite (DLS) is a collection of tools that enable customers to choose the location where Cloudflare inspects and stores data, while maintaining the security and performance benefits of our global network.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

PCI DSSPCI DSS 4.0 Attestation of Compliance, listed among Cloudflare's certifications and reports.
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Encryption at restDPA Annex 2 requires all disks storing Personal Data to be encrypted with AES-XTS at a key length of 128 bits or longer.
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  • Cloudflare Customer Data Processing Addendum ↗

    “Measures for the protection of data during storage [...] employing effective encryption algorithms and parameterization, such as requiring all disks storing Personal Data to be encrypted with AES-XTS using a key length of 128-bits or longer.”

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Customer-managed keysKeyless SSL keeps TLS private keys on a customer-run key server; only for Enterprise customers holding their own CA-issued certificate. Availability table on the same page: No on Free, Pro and Business; paid add-on on Enterprise.
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  • Keyless SSL · Cloudflare SSL/TLS docs ↗

    “Keyless SSL allows security-conscious clients to upload their own custom certificates and benefit from Cloudflare, but without exposing their TLS private keys. [...] Keyless SSL is only available to Enterprise customers that maintain their own SSL certificate purchased from a valid Certificate Authority.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Role-based access controlOn any Cloudflare account, members are granted access through policies made of an actor, a role and a scope; roles are account-, domain- or resource-scoped.
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Private networking / VPCCloudflare Network Interconnect, Enterprise-only, connects your network infrastructure directly to Cloudflare rather than over the public Internet.
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Dedicated infrastructureCNI Direct Interconnect gives a dedicated physical fiber connection into Cloudflare hardware that sits in a shared data center. Dedicated connectivity into a shared network; no single-tenant CDN deployment is published.
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Cloudflare pricing questions

How much does Cloudflare cost?

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

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How does Cloudflare charge?

Flat monthly plans that differ by feature set rather than by traffic: Free, Pro at $20/mo billed annually, Business at $200/mo billed annually, and a custom Contract tier.

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Does Cloudflare have a free tier?

Yes.

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Do you need a credit card to start on Cloudflare?

No.

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How much does Cloudflare charge for egress?

Bundled into the plan price: Cloudflare states bandwidth costs are bundled rather than charged as cloud egress fees; no per-GB CDN rate is quoted.

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What uptime does Cloudflare guarantee?

100%, on Business and Enterprise only — Free and Pro carry none. Service credits are 1x on Business and 10x standard or 25x premium on Enterprise.

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