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Cloudflare vs KeyCDN

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of Cloudflare and KeyCDN built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 22 criteria comparedSources last checked

Adoption share

BuiltWith counts — how much more of the web runs Cloudflare than KeyCDN, among the sites BuiltWith actually detects. Measured . Source: BuiltWith.

Cloudflare100.0% · 54,638,083 sites
KeyCDN0.0% · 3,211 sites

The short answer

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

Choose KeyCDN if…

Low-commitment testing or small sites — no free tier, but the $4/month floor and no-commitment billing make it cheap to try against real traffic.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • 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.
  • KeyCDN: Bandwidth volume is large — $0.04/GB is the highest entry-tier bandwidth rate of the CDNs sourced here for North America/Europe.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Cloudflare alternatives · KeyCDN alternatives

10 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionCloudflareKeyCDN
Pricing
Free tier
Yes
No
Kind of free offerFree tierNo free offer — The first 3 zones are free, but traffic is not: the account floor is a $4 monthly minimum.
Entry paid plan
Pro plan: $20/month billed annually, or $25/month billed monthly.
No plan tiers: pay-as-you-go with a $4 per month minimum charge on combined account usage, and credits must be topped up with a minimum $49 payment.
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.Pay-as-you-go, tiered by volume, with no commitment required.
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.$0.04/GB for North America and Europe, first 10 TB per month.
Infrastructure
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.Six regions listed on the network page — North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa (Johannesburg only) and Latin America — covering 50 named cities counted from the region tables. The same page separately claims 60+ data centers, so cities are not points of presence one-for-one. Counted from the six region tables; KeyCDN publishes no per-region total.
CDN
Points of presence
348 cities in the Data Center Locations list on Cloudflare's global network page.
60+ data centers in 40+ countries across 6 continents.
Image optimizationLossless Image Optimization included from the Pro plan, alongside AMP support.Image Processing: $0.40 per 1,000 operations, transforming and optimizing images in real time via query parameters.
Compliance
ISO 27001
ISO 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.
Stated of the data centers that host KeyCDN's points of presence: they meet ISO 27001 security and compliance standards. Network-page claim about the data center providers, not a KeyCDN corporate certification.
GDPR / data residency
Data Localization Suite, an Enterprise-only paid add-on, chooses where Cloudflare inspects and stores data, for regimes such as GDPR.
Committed to GDPR as the data processor (customer is controller); a DPA is issued on support request; client IP addresses are anonymized in delivery logs.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Free tier

Cloudflare
Yes
KeyCDN
No
Sources (2) →

Kind of free offer

Cloudflare
Free tier
KeyCDN
No free offer — The first 3 zones are free, but traffic is not: the account floor is a $4 monthly minimum.
Sources (2) →
  • Cloudflare Plans ↗

    “Free For personal or hobby projects that aren't business-critical. $0 /month”

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

  • KeyCDN Pricing ↗

    “The first 3 Zones are included for free. Each additional Zone is $1 per month. [...] Our minimum charge is $4 per month based on the combined total account traffic volume and other services used.”

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

Entry paid plan

Cloudflare
Pro plan: $20/month billed annually, or $25/month billed monthly.
KeyCDN
No plan tiers: pay-as-you-go with a $4 per month minimum charge on combined account usage, and credits must be topped up with a minimum $49 payment.
Sources (2) →
  • Cloudflare Plans ↗

    “Pro For professional websites that aren't business-critical. $20 /mo billed annually, or $25/mo billed monthly”

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

  • CDN Pricing - KeyCDN ↗

    “Our minimum charge is $4 per month based on the combined total account traffic volume and other services used. [...] Is there a minimum payment? Yes, the minimum payment is $49.”

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

Pricing model

Cloudflare
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.
KeyCDN
Pay-as-you-go, tiered by volume, with no commitment required.
Sources (2) →
  • 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

  • KeyCDN Pricing ↗

    “Get access to our entire content delivery network without commitment.”

    Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing · Report a correction

Egress over allowance

Cloudflare
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.
KeyCDN
$0.04/GB for North America and Europe, first 10 TB per month.
Sources (2) →
  • Cloudflare CDN ↗

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

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

  • KeyCDN Pricing ↗

    “Region First 10 TB per month Next 40 TB per month Next 50 TB per month Over 100 TB per month North America Europe $0.04/GB $0.03/GB $0.02/GB $0.01/GB”

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

Regions

Cloudflare
8 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.
KeyCDN
Six regions listed on the network page — North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa (Johannesburg only) and Latin America — covering 50 named cities counted from the region tables. The same page separately claims 60+ data centers, so cities are not points of presence one-for-one. Counted from the six region tables; KeyCDN publishes no per-region total.
Sources (2) →
  • Cloudflare global network ↗

    “Data Center Locations [...] 348 cities · 8 regions”

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

  • Network - KeyCDN ↗

    “North America Atlanta Chicago Dallas Denver Los Angeles Miami Montreal New York San Francisco Seattle Europe Amsterdam [...] Oceania Auckland Brisbane Melbourne Perth Sydney Africa Johannesburg Latin America Bogotá Buenos Aires Lima Mexico City Santiago São Paulo”

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

Points of presence

Cloudflare

348 cities in the Data Center Locations list on Cloudflare's global network page.

KeyCDN

60+ data centers in 40+ countries across 6 continents.

Sources (2) →

Image optimization

Cloudflare
Lossless Image Optimization included from the Pro plan, alongside AMP support.
KeyCDN
Image Processing: $0.40 per 1,000 operations, transforming and optimizing images in real time via query parameters.
Sources (2) →

ISO 27001

Cloudflare
ISO 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.
KeyCDN
Stated of the data centers that host KeyCDN's points of presence: they meet ISO 27001 security and compliance standards. Network-page claim about the data center providers, not a KeyCDN corporate certification.
Sources (2) →

GDPR / data residency

Cloudflare
Data Localization Suite, an Enterprise-only paid add-on, chooses where Cloudflare inspects and stores data, for regimes such as GDPR.
KeyCDN
Committed to GDPR as the data processor (customer is controller); a DPA is issued on support request; client IP addresses are anonymized in delivery logs.
Sources (2) →
  • 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

  • GDPR - KeyCDN ↗

    “KeyCDN customers typically act as data controllers, whereas KeyCDN acts as the data processor. [...] you are required by law to complete a data processing agreement (DPA). Please open a support request to receive the agreement. [...] Client IP addresses are anonymized within the content delivery logs provided.”

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

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03.

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 — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

What the free plan includesKeyCDN: The first 3 zones are included at no charge; traffic itself is billed from the first gigabyte with no free allowance.
Credit card to startCloudflare: No
Uptime SLACloudflare: 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.
Support on entry paid planKeyCDN: 24/7 technical support for all customers at no additional cost.
SOC 2Cloudflare: SOC 2 Type II attestation covering Security, Confidentiality and Availability against the AICPA Trust Service Criteria.
HIPAACloudflare: HIPAA is listed in Cloudflare's certifications; the HIPAA AoC is obtained by contacting your account team.
PCI DSSCloudflare: PCI DSS 4.0 Attestation of Compliance, listed among Cloudflare's certifications and reports.
Encryption at restCloudflare: DPA Annex 2 requires all disks storing Personal Data to be encrypted with AES-XTS at a key length of 128 bits or longer.
Customer-managed keysCloudflare: Keyless 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.
Role-based access controlCloudflare: On 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.
Private networking / VPCCloudflare: Cloudflare Network Interconnect, Enterprise-only, connects your network infrastructure directly to Cloudflare rather than over the public Internet.
Dedicated infrastructureCloudflare: CNI 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.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: Cloudflare or KeyCDN?

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

KeyCDN: No plan tiers: pay-as-you-go with a $4 per month minimum charge on combined account usage, and credits must be topped up with a minimum $49 payment.

Free tier: Cloudflare or KeyCDN?

Cloudflare: Yes

KeyCDN: No

Egress over allowance: Cloudflare or KeyCDN?

Cloudflare: 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.

KeyCDN: $0.04/GB for North America and Europe, first 10 TB per month.

Should I choose Cloudflare or KeyCDN?

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.

Pick KeyCDN if Low-commitment testing or small sites — no free tier, but the $4/month floor and no-commitment billing make it cheap to try against real traffic.

Provider pages

CloudflareCloudflare's core network plans — CDN, DDoS protection and WAF bundled into flat tiers rather than metered bandwidth.KeyCDNPay-as-you-go CDN with no long-term commitment and a metered per-operation image processing add-on.

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Comments

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