Cloudflare WAF vs Sucuri
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Cloudflare WAF and Sucuri built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose Cloudflare WAF if…
Not thinking about it again. The WAF is a plan feature at $20 a month for Pro or $200 for Business, with nothing metered per rule or per request, so the bill is identical whether it inspects a thousand requests or a billion.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose Sucuri if…
One site, one annual price, and somebody else cleaning up the malware. $229 a year covers the firewall, a CDN and cleanups, with a 24/7 security team on every tier and no request metering at all.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- Cloudflare WAF: You need the SLA or PCI DSS. Both start at the $200 Business plan — the 100% uptime commitment and PCI DSS 4.0 compliance are absent from Free and Pro, which is a tenfold step up from $20 to reach them.
- Sucuri: You run more than one site. The platform plans cover a single site and 2-5 sites means the $999.98 Junior Dev plan, so three sites cost more than four times the single-site price.
2 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
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.
Cloudflare WAF 0
Sucuri 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Cloudflare WAF | Sucuri |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Entry paid plan | $20 a month for Pro billed annually, or $25 billed monthly — and $200 a month for Business. Nothing is metered on top: no per-rule charge, no per-request charge, so the WAF costs the plan and the plan costs the same whether it inspects a thousand requests or a billion. | $229 a year for the Basic Platform — roughly $19 a month, but billed annually and per site rather than per request or per rule. Pro is $339 and Business $549, the difference being malware cleanup response time and scan frequency rather than capacity. |
| Pricing model | Bundled into a plan, not metered. The WAF and the free managed ruleset are plan features alongside SSL, image optimisation and PCI DSS 4.0 compliance, and the bill does not move with traffic — the opposite of AWS and Google, which both charge per rule and per million requests. | Per site, per year, with no request metering at all. What the tiers buy is service rather than throughput: occasional cleanups on Basic, faster SSL transfers on Pro, fastest malware-cleanup response and more frequent scans on Business. A 30-day guarantee applies and the platform is described as agnostic to the host. |
Where they differ.
Entry paid plan
- Cloudflare WAF
- $20 a month for Pro billed annually, or $25 billed monthly — and $200 a month for Business. Nothing is metered on top: no per-rule charge, no per-request charge, so the WAF costs the plan and the plan costs the same whether it inspects a thousand requests or a billion.
- Sucuri
- $229 a year for the Basic Platform — roughly $19 a month, but billed annually and per site rather than per request or per rule. Pro is $339 and Business $549, the difference being malware cleanup response time and scan frequency rather than capacity.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Cloudflare Plans ↗
“$20 /mo billed annually, or $25/mo billed monthly”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Sucuri Website Firewall ↗
“$ 229 /yr Buy Now”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
Pricing model
- Cloudflare WAF
- Bundled into a plan, not metered. The WAF and the free managed ruleset are plan features alongside SSL, image optimisation and PCI DSS 4.0 compliance, and the bill does not move with traffic — the opposite of AWS and Google, which both charge per rule and per million requests.
- Sucuri
- Per site, per year, with no request metering at all. What the tiers buy is service rather than throughput: occasional cleanups on Basic, faster SSL transfers on Pro, fastest malware-cleanup response and more frequent scans on Business. A 30-day guarantee applies and the platform is described as agnostic to the host.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Cloudflare Plans ↗
“Web Application Firewall (WAF) Free Pro Business Contract”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Sucuri Website Firewall ↗
“30-Day Guarantee Platform Agnostic 24/7 Security Team”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
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: Cloudflare WAF or Sucuri?
Cloudflare WAF: $20 a month for Pro billed annually, or $25 billed monthly — and $200 a month for Business. Nothing is metered on top: no per-rule charge, no per-request charge, so the WAF costs the plan and the plan costs the same whether it inspects a thousand requests or a billion.
Sucuri: $229 a year for the Basic Platform — roughly $19 a month, but billed annually and per site rather than per request or per rule. Pro is $339 and Business $549, the difference being malware cleanup response time and scan frequency rather than capacity.
Should I choose Cloudflare WAF or Sucuri?
Pick Cloudflare WAF if Not thinking about it again. The WAF is a plan feature at $20 a month for Pro or $200 for Business, with nothing metered per rule or per request, so the bill is identical whether it inspects a thousand requests or a billion.
Pick Sucuri if One site, one annual price, and somebody else cleaning up the malware. $229 a year covers the firewall, a CDN and cleanups, with a 24/7 security team on every tier and no request metering at all.