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Cloudflare pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for Cloudflare. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the networking tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Cloudflare pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The Cloudflare catalogue entry carries no price and a freemium pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the Cloudflare review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full Cloudflare feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Global CDN
- DDoS Protection
- WAF
- DNS
- SSL/TLS
- Load Balancing
- Bot Management
- Workers (Serverless)
Integrations
- GitHub
- GitLab
- WordPress
- Shopify
- Drupal
Security
- ISO27001
- SOC2
- GDPR
- DDoS Protection
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
People bring Cloudflare in for global content delivery network (cdn) with 330+ data centres worldwide, ddos protection and bot blocking, web application security and rate limiting, dns management and domain protection, static and dynamic content caching, serverless computing via cloudflare workers, database and storage services (d1, r2), performance optimisation for core web vitals. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Cloudflare are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Networking
Too few networking tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| MikroTik RouterOS | On request | One-time purchase, per licence level | - | vs Cloudflare |
| Cisco Meraki | On request | quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence | - | vs Cloudflare |
| PRTG Network Monitor | On request | Per sensor tier, billed monthly on an annual contract | - | vs Cloudflare |
| OpenVPN | Free | Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection | - | vs Cloudflare |
| Icinga | Free | Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately | - | vs Cloudflare |
| pfSense | Free | Open source Community Edition, free; commercial Plus edition sold separately by Netgate | - | vs Cloudflare |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Cloudflare badges page.
Before you pay for Cloudflare
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Cloudflare runs on web, and is published by Cloudflare Inc of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Cloudflare review, and the rest of the category is under best networking tools.
Cloudflare pricing questions
- How much does Cloudflare cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for Cloudflare, which is listed as freemium. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does Cloudflare have a free plan?
- Yes, Cloudflare is recorded as freemium, so it can be used without paying.
- Which networking tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside Cloudflare have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.
- What am I actually paying for with Cloudflare?
- The record lists 20 features across 5 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for global content delivery network (cdn) with 330+ data centres worldwide, ddos protection and bot blocking, web application security and rate limiting.
- Does Cloudflare charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Cloudflare prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Cloudflare against before paying?
- The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco Meraki, PRTG Network Monitor, OpenVPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Cloudflare covering price, platforms and features.