Free Cloudflare AlternativesCDNs & Web Application Firewalls like Cloudflare

The best free alternative to Cloudflare is DNS4EU. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Cloudflare and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Cloudflare are Anubis, Cisco Umbrella, Duck DNS and Fly.io.

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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.

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Duck DNS icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    58 BunkerWeb alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    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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    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
  8. 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.

    60 Sucuri alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  9. Gcore icon
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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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    Positive
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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
  10. Haproxy icon
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    HAProxy is free, open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spreads requests across multiple servers.

    32 Haproxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  11. NetGoat icon
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    A Cloudflare alternative for local and cloud use, can be used ontop of cloudflare for cloudflares paid features, but for free!.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    FastNetMon is a very fast DDoS analyzer with sflow/netflow/mirror support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Perl
     
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