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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 Amazon Web Services.
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51 DNS4EU alternatives
53 Anubis alternativesApplies 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.
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- Free Personal
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Self-Hosted
- Go (Programming Language)
- Docker
72 Cisco Umbrella alternativesCisco Umbrella (formerly OpenDNS) provides the first line of defense against threats on the internet wherever users go.
176 Amazon Web Services alternativesThis 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.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Software as a Service (SaaS)
58 Fly.io alternativesEdge 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.
19 Amazon CloudFront alternativesAmazon 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.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Amazon Web Services
61 BunkerWeb alternativesBunkerWeb is a next-generation and open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF).
64 Sucuri alternativesA 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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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Self-Hosted
- Wordpress
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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.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
36 Haproxy alternativesHAProxy 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.
A Cloudflare alternative for local and cloud use, can be used ontop of cloudflare for cloudflares paid features, but for free!.
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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