Self-Hosted Cloudflare Alternatives

Cloudflare is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are some alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best Self-Hosted alternative 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 nine of them are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Cloudflare are NetGoat, FastNetMon, SafeLine and coraza.

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Cloudflare alternatives are mainly Web Application Firewalls, but if you're looking for Website Monitoring Tools or CDNs 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. 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
  4. Sucuri icon

    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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    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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  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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  8. 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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    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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  11. Cachoid icon

    Cachoid

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    Cachoid instantly spins up and orchestrates well-optimized Varnish Cache containers that work specifically with WordPress, AWS S3, Drupal, Magento, Github.io, and other platforms. You get a performant website, fine-grained and real-time control of your caching from a...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Indusface Web Application Scanning icon

    Indusface Web Application Scanning

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    Indusface Web Application Scanning helps detect web application vulnerabilities, malware, and logical flaws with daily or on-demand comprehensive scanning. Managed by certified security experts, Indusface application scanner helps organizations find greater business impact of...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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