Cloudflare AlternativesCDNs & Web Application Firewalls like Cloudflare

Cloudflare is described as 'Protects websites with front-end proxy, dynamic DNS, CDN, and firewall; blocks DDoS and targeted attacks, optimizes traffic, and analyzes threats' and is a very popular CDN in the network & admin category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Cloudflare for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, SaaS, Self-Hosted, Linux and Windows apps. The best Cloudflare alternative is DNS4EU, which is free. Other great apps like Cloudflare are Anubis, DigitalOcean, Cisco Umbrella and Duck DNS.

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  1. DNS4EU icon

    DNS4EU

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    Join DNS4EU, an EU initiative providing secure, private, and reliable DNS services for users across Europe.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  2. Anubis icon

    Anubis

     16 likes

    Applies sha256 proof-of-work challenges to incoming HTTP requests, targeting AI crawlers, bots that ignore robots.txt, and automated scrapers, protecting server resources and preventing unwanted search engine indexing for privacy-focused sites.

    49 Anubis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Docker
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  4. DigitalOcean icon

    DigitalOcean

     128 likes

    A cloud computing service offering Droplets for virtual servers, managed Kubernetes, Spaces object storage, and managed databases. Ideal for developers and startups to deploy, manage, and scale applications efficiently in web hosting and data processing.

    218 DigitalOcean alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
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    DigitalOcean vs Cloudflare Comments
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    Negative
    18

    Cloudflare is proxy, DigitalOcean is VPS provider

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • DigitalOcean is Paid and ProprietaryCloudflare is Freemium and Proprietary
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    bunny.net

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  6. Cisco Umbrella icon

    Cisco Umbrella

     106 likes

    Cisco Umbrella (formerly OpenDNS) provides the first line of defense against threats on the internet wherever users go.

    71 Cisco Umbrella alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Amazon Web Services icon

    Amazon Web Services

     41 likes

    This service provides over 200 scalable cloud offerings including networking, computing, storage, and IoT, accessible via global server farms. It features a pay-as-you-go model with autoscaling, extensive global infrastructure, and robust security tools, suitable for enterprises.

    174 Amazon Web Services alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Amazon Web Services vs Cloudflare Comments
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    AWS is general service which can be used for many purposes. Cloudflare is designed for DDoS protection, load balancing, DNS, caching and many more. Nearly all of these features can be found in AWS but there are loosely coupled. I am not aware

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Amazon Web Services is Freemium and ProprietaryCloudflare is also Freemium and Proprietary
  10. Fly.io icon

    Fly.io

     12 likes

    Edge computing is the new frontier. Fly brings the untapped potential of intelligent edge-servers to your finger-tips. It's a global load balancer, a smart reverse proxy, a library of powerful Middleware; it's a CDN that developers like you control.

    58 Fly.io alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Amazon CloudFront

     4 likes

    Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates delivery of your websites, APIs, video content or other web assets through CDN caching.

    18 Amazon CloudFront alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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  12. Imperva CDN icon

    Imperva CDN

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    Imperva CDN is a cloud-based platform that integrates content caching, load balancing, and failover to securely distribute applications globally. It uses machine learning to cache dynamically-generated pages, reducing bandwidth consumption.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Sucuri

     8 likes

    A web security portfolio offering a combination of on-premise installed security software in conjunction with a cloud hosted web application firewall and CDN.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
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  14. BunkerWeb icon

    BunkerWeb

     8 likes

    BunkerWeb is a next-generation and open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF).

    60 BunkerWeb alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    BunkerWeb vs Cloudflare Comments
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    Positive
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    Best on Prem alternative so far

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • BunkerWeb is Free and Open SourceCloudflare is Freemium and Proprietary
    • BunkerWeb is LightweightCloudflare is not according to our users
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    Fastly.com

     2 likes

    Fastly helps you eliminate toil with smarter solutions, and we keep you safer on our secure-by-design platform. Find out how we make good SecOps easy for DevOps.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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