Amazon CloudFront vs Cloudflare
A comparison of Amazon CloudFront and Cloudflare built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
- Pick Amazon CloudFront if
- Teams already on AWS that want CDN bundled with other AWS services under one flat monthly price rather than itemized per-GB billing.
- Pick Cloudflare if
- 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.
2 sourced criteria separate them:
- Entry paid plan
- Amazon CloudFront: Pro plan: $15/month.
- Cloudflare: Pro plan: $20/month billed annually, or $25/month billed monthly.
- Pricing model
- Amazon CloudFront: Flat-rate monthly plans bundling CloudFront with multiple AWS services and features, with no overage charges within plan limits.
- Cloudflare: 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.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
Amazon CloudFront 0
Cloudflare 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Amazon CloudFront | Cloudflare |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Entry paid plan | Pro plan: $15/month. | Pro plan: $20/month billed annually, or $25/month billed monthly. |
| Pricing model | Flat-rate monthly plans bundling CloudFront with multiple AWS services and features, with no overage charges within plan limits. | 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. |
Where they differ.
Entry paid plan
- Amazon CloudFront
- Pro plan: $15/month.
- Cloudflare
- Pro plan: $20/month billed annually, or $25/month billed monthly.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Amazon CloudFront Pricing ↗
“$15/month Pro plan.”
Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing
- Cloudflare Network & CDN Plans ↗
“$20 /mo billed annually, or $25/mo billed monthly.”
Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing
Pricing model
- Amazon CloudFront
- Flat-rate monthly plans bundling CloudFront with multiple AWS services and features, with no overage charges within plan limits.
- Cloudflare
- 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.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Amazon CloudFront Pricing ↗
“Flat-rate pricing plans combine the CloudFront CDN with multiple AWS services and features into a monthly price with no overage charges.”
Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing
- Cloudflare Network & CDN Plans ↗
“Unmetered DDoS Protection, CDN [on the Free plan already].”
Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Which should you choose?
Choose Amazon CloudFront if…
Teams already on AWS that want CDN bundled with other AWS services under one flat monthly price rather than itemized per-GB billing.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose Cloudflare if…
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.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- Amazon CloudFront: Traffic profile is unusual or very high volume — the flat-rate plans bundle a fixed allowance, and a metered pay-as-you-go CDN may price better outside that shape.
- Cloudflare: 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.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.
Questions this comparison answers.
Entry paid plan: Amazon CloudFront or Cloudflare?
Amazon CloudFront: Pro plan: $15/month.
Cloudflare: Pro plan: $20/month billed annually, or $25/month billed monthly.
Should I choose Amazon CloudFront or Cloudflare?
Pick Amazon CloudFront if Teams already on AWS that want CDN bundled with other AWS services under one flat monthly price rather than itemized per-GB billing.
Pick Cloudflare if 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.