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Cloudflare Load Balancing

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www.cloudflare.com/products/load-balancing · Load balancing
SEPT 2026 audit

Cloudflare's load balancer, sold as a monthly add-on and the only one here that balances across clouds it does not own.

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Entry paid planFrom $5 a month, sold as an add-on activated on an existing Cloudflare plan rather than as a standalone service. The cheapest entry in this category.
CategoryLoad balancing

Updated 4 criteria comparedSources last checked

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Balancing across clouds you do not own. It is the only member here that markets balancing between AWS, GCP, Azure and on-premise servers, and at $5 a month it is also the cheapest entry.

Consider something else if…

You need to know what it costs at your volume. The price is quoted only as a starting figure on a plans page, and it is an add-on to a Cloudflare plan rather than a service you can buy on its own.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Pricing
3 criteria
Credit card to startYes
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  • Enable Load Balancing ↗

    “Load balancing is an add-on for your account, meaning your account needs a billing profile”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official docs

Entry paid planFrom $5 a month, sold as an add-on activated on an existing Cloudflare plan rather than as a standalone service. The cheapest entry in this category.
Sources (1) →
  • Cloudflare Plans ↗

    “Local and global traffic load balancing, geographic routing, health checks, and failover for continuous availability. Starting at $5/mo”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Pricing modelA monthly add-on price on top of a Cloudflare plan, not a meter. Nothing here is billed per hour, per rule or per node — the distinction from the three cloud-native balancers, all of which charge for the resource existing.
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  • Cloudflare Plans ↗

    “Starting at $5/mo Activate Load Balancing”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Caching
1 criteria
Multi-region replicationVendor-neutral by design: traffic is balanced between AWS, GCP, Azure and on-premise servers, with origin health monitored from multiple points across Cloudflare’s network. The other three members balance traffic only inside the cloud that sells them.
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  • Cloudflare Load Balancing ↗

    “Developers can seamlessly balance traffic between AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-premise servers.”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official site

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