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, Cisco Umbrella, Duck DNS and Fly.io.

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Cloudflare alternatives are mainly CDNs, but if you're looking for Web Application Firewalls or DDoS Protection Systems you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Open Source and Self-Hosted. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Cloudflare.
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  1. DNS4EU icon
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    Join DNS4EU, an EU initiative providing secure, private, and reliable DNS services for users across Europe.

    51 DNS4EU alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • DNS4EU is the most popular Web-based alternative to Cloudflare.

    • DNS4EU is the most popular free alternative to Cloudflare.

    • DNS4EU is Free and ProprietaryCloudflare is Freemium and Proprietary
    • DNS4EU is Security-focused and Privacy focusedCloudflare is not according to our users
  2. Anubis icon
     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.

    48 Anubis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Docker
     
    • Anubis is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Cloudflare.

    • Anubis is the most popular Open Source alternative to Cloudflare.

    • Anubis is Free Personal and Open SourceCloudflare is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Anubis is Lightweight and Security-focusedCloudflare is not according to our users
  3. Cisco Umbrella icon
     106 likes

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

    72 Cisco Umbrella alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Duck DNS icon
     51 likes

    Free dynamic DNS hosted on Amazon VPC.

    23 Duck DNS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • Duck DNS is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Cloudflare.

    • Duck DNS is Free and Open SourceCloudflare is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. Fly.io icon
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    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.

    53 Fly.io alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. 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.

    17 Amazon CloudFront alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
    • Amazon CloudFront is the most popular SaaS alternative to Cloudflare.

    • Amazon CloudFront is Freemium and ProprietaryCloudflare is also Freemium and Proprietary
  7. 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

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Imperva CDN is the most popular commercial alternative to Cloudflare.

    • Imperva CDN is Paid and ProprietaryCloudflare is Freemium and Proprietary
  8. Sucuri icon
     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 (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  9. Fastly.com icon
     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

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. BunkerWeb icon
     8 likes

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

    58 BunkerWeb alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    • BunkerWeb is Free and Open SourceCloudflare is Freemium and Proprietary
    • BunkerWeb is LightweightCloudflare is not according to our users
  11. Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) uses Google's global edge network to serve content closer to users, which accelerates your websites and applications.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. Akamai icon
     3 likes

    Distributed CDN accelerates global content, video, and app delivery with low latency, robust cloud security, edge computing, real-time analytics, high scalability, automated traffic routing, compliance support, optimized delivery for all devices and audiences.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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