Google Cloud Armor vs Sucuri
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Google Cloud Armor and Sucuri built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose Google Cloud Armor if…
Google Cloud workloads needing a documented availability commitment: 99.99% for globally-scoped security policies, at the same $5 per policy and $1 per rule AWS charges.
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…
- Google Cloud Armor: Your policies are regional. The SLA drops to 99.9% for regionally-scoped backend policies, so the commitment depends on an architecture choice rather than on the tier you bought — and the Enterprise tiers that bundle request volume carry a one-year commitment.
- 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.
Google Cloud Armor 0
Sucuri 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Google Cloud Armor | Sucuri |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Entry paid plan | $0.006849315 per security-policy hour on the Standard tier — $5 a month — plus $0.001369863 per rule-hour, which is $1 a month. The hourly figures carry nine decimal places because they are a monthly price divided by 730. | $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 | Per policy-hour, per rule-hour and per million requests on the Standard tier, with the two Enterprise tiers replacing all three with "All included" and a data processing fee instead. Enterprise Annual carries a one-year time commitment where Standard carries none. Bot management is billed separately under reCAPTCHA pricing. | 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
- Google Cloud Armor
- $0.006849315 per security-policy hour on the Standard tier — $5 a month — plus $0.001369863 per rule-hour, which is $1 a month. The hourly figures carry nine decimal places because they are a monthly price divided by 730.
- 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 ↓
- Cloud Armor pricing ↗
“Security policies $0.006849315 / 1 hour”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Sucuri Website Firewall ↗
“$ 229 /yr Buy Now”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
Pricing model
- Google Cloud Armor
- Per policy-hour, per rule-hour and per million requests on the Standard tier, with the two Enterprise tiers replacing all three with "All included" and a data processing fee instead. Enterprise Annual carries a one-year time commitment where Standard carries none. Bot management is billed separately under reCAPTCHA pricing.
- 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 ↓
- Cloud Armor pricing ↗
“Data processing fee None Yes; see the following section Yes; see the following section Time commitment None None One year”
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: Google Cloud Armor or Sucuri?
Google Cloud Armor: $0.006849315 per security-policy hour on the Standard tier — $5 a month — plus $0.001369863 per rule-hour, which is $1 a month. The hourly figures carry nine decimal places because they are a monthly price divided by 730.
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 Google Cloud Armor or Sucuri?
Pick Google Cloud Armor if Google Cloud workloads needing a documented availability commitment: 99.99% for globally-scoped security policies, at the same $5 per policy and $1 per rule AWS charges.
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.