Open Source Cloudflare AlternativesCDNs & Web Application Firewalls like Cloudflare

The best open source alternative to Cloudflare is Anubis. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Anubis or Duck DNS. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Cloudflare and 11 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Cloudflare are Haproxy, NetGoat, FastNetMon and open-appsec.

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Cloudflare alternatives are mainly Web Application Firewalls, but if you're looking for Reverse Proxy Servers or Web Servers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Free 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. 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. Duck DNS icon

    Duck DNS

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

    • Duck DNS is Free and Open SourceCloudflare 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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    • BunkerWeb is Free and Open SourceCloudflare is Freemium and Proprietary
    • BunkerWeb is LightweightCloudflare is not according to our users
  5. Haproxy icon

    Haproxy

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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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Live demo
     
  6. NetGoat icon

    NetGoat

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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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  7. FastNetMon

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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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  9. open-appsec icon

    open-appsec

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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Machine Learning Engine
     
  10. SafeLine icon

    SafeLine

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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.

    13 SafeLine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  11. coraza icon

    coraza

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    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.

    13 coraza alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
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  12. OneClickCDN icon

    OneClickCDN

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    A one-click shell script to set up a CDN node for your websites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  13. HaGeZi DNS

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    HaGeZi DNS offers free, non-commercial public DNS resolvers designed and operated by a private individual for the European community. It provides robust DNS-based blocking of ads, trackers, scam, phishing, fake, and malware domains - helping users achieve greater privacy and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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