Cloudflare AlternativesOnly Free apps categorised as Web Application Firewalls

The best free 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 Sucuri. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Cloudflare and eight of them are free Web Application Firewalls so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Web Application Firewall alternatives to Cloudflare are Gcore, Alviy, open-appsec and SafeLine.

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  1. Anubis icon
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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.

    49 Anubis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Docker
     
  2. Sucuri icon
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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.

    64 Sucuri alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  3. BunkerWeb icon
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    BunkerWeb is a next-generation and open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF).

    61 BunkerWeb alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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  4. Gcore icon
     19 likes

    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.

    20 Gcore alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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  5. Alviy icon
     19 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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  6. open-appsec (openappsec.io) in an open-source initiative that builds on machine learning to provide pre-emptive web app & API threat protection against OWASP-Top-10 and zero-day attacks.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. SafeLine icon
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    SafeLine is a docker-based, easy to use, self-hosted free web application firewall (WAF) that protects web apps by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the Internet.

    24 SafeLine alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  8. coraza icon
     2 likes

    Coraza is an open source, enterprise-grade, high performance Web Application Firewall (WAF) ready to protect your beloved applications. It is written in Go, supports ModSecurity SecLang rulesets and is 100% compatible with the OWASP Core Rule Set v4.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
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