Cloudflare AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Web Application Firewalls

The best Web Application Firewall alternative to Cloudflare is Anubis. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Anubis or BunkerWeb. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Cloudflare and 18 are Web Application Firewalls so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Web Application Firewall alternatives to Cloudflare are Sucuri, Medianova, Gcore and Nexusguard.

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  1. Anubis icon

    Anubis

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Docker
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    • 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
  2. 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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    • Imperva CDN is the most popular commercial alternative to Cloudflare.

    • Imperva CDN is Paid and ProprietaryCloudflare is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. BunkerWeb icon

    BunkerWeb

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

    58 BunkerWeb alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Comments about BunkerWeb as an Alternative to Cloudflare
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    Best on Prem alternative so far

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    • BunkerWeb is Free and Open SourceCloudflare is Freemium and Proprietary
    • BunkerWeb is LightweightCloudflare is not according to our users
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    Sucuri

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

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    Sucuri

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    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
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  7. Medianova icon

    Medianova

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    Medianova is a global company offering content delivery network (CDN) and cloud security solutions. Recognized by Gartner, the company specializes in areas such as Dynamic Site Caching, Static Content Delivery, Image Optimization, API Caching, Streaming, Hybrid CDN, Cloud Object...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. Gcore icon

    Gcore

     19 likes
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    Edge cloud infrastructure with low latency around the world. Approved by game publishers and media. Store, deliver and protect any content for your latency-sensitive services. Reduce capital and operating costs. The best delivery speed in Europe.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Comments about Gcore as an Alternative to Cloudflare
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    Gcore has totally free global DNS service the same as Cloudflare+free CDN plan with WAF

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Gcore is Freemium and ProprietaryCloudflare is also Freemium and Proprietary
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    Nexusguard

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    Nexusguard is the global leader in fighting malicious internet attacks. Nexusguard protects clients against a multitude of threats, including distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. Myra Security icon

    Myra Security

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    Tailored protection and performance solutions for your websites, portals, APIs, and infrastructure: the Myra Security as a Service Platform protects against risks such as DDoS attacks, botnet activities, zero-day exploits and other attacks on web applications, APIs, or databases.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Alviy

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    Alviy is Infrastructure-as-a-Service provides Dynamic DNS, Backup/Secondary DNS service and domain hosting with DNS zone management.

    20 Alviy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    It is not subject to extremely strict moderation and is not spammed in databases like the lesser known variant.

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    • Alviy is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Cloudflare.

    • Alviy is Freemium and ProprietaryCloudflare is also Freemium and Proprietary
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    BitMitigate

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    Highest performing combination platform that delivers 10X improvements to page load times with enterprise-grade performance but at the fraction of the cost of commercial alternatives such as CloudFlare and SiteLock.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    5centsCDN

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    A comprehensive solution to all your content delivery concerns, A game-changing infrastructure of content delivery that provides advanced solutions including Web acceleration, live streaming, cloud storage, and encoding services.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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