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Cloudflare
The network in front of your site
Free plan availableSecurity & PrivacySince 2009
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What Cloudflare is
DNS, CDN, DDoS protection, WAF, Zero Trust access and edge compute, with a free tier that covers most small sites entirely.
What Cloudflare has cost
We have read this pricing page 6 times since Jan 2021, including archived copies of it. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
- $20/moJan 2021 – Jul 2021 · Pro · 2 readings · archived page
- $25/moJul 2026 – Sept 2026 · Pro · 4 readings · archived page
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
People use it to
Current offers
Free plan
Free plan, no card required
Ongoing free tier published by the vendor. Limits vary by plan.
Discount
20% off — $20/mo instead of $25/mo
Both prices read from www.cloudflare.com on 2026-09-21. Pro plan. Billed for 12 months up front.
Cloudflare alternatives
Other tools in security & privacy that cover similar ground. Full comparison.
Where Cloudflare sits on price
Entry prices across Security & Privacy, cheapest first.
- WorkOSFree
- Bitwarden$1.65
- Keeper Security$2
- 1Password$2.99*
- Proton Pass$2.99
- Dashlane$4.99*
- Tailscale$8
- NordLayer$8
- Cloudflare$25
- Clerk$25
11 of these 13 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page; the rest are marked * and are indicative. The median is taken across the 10 verified prices in Security & Privacy. 4 more tools in this category do not publish an entry price and are not plotted. Showing the 10 cheapest.
Cloudflare pricing questions
- How much does Cloudflare cost?
- Cloudflare starts at $25 a month on its Pro plan, billed monthly. That figure was read from cloudflare.com's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
- Does Cloudflare have a free plan?
- Yes. Cloudflare publishes an ongoing free tier — not a countdown trial. Limits vary by plan, so check what the free tier covers before you commit.
- Is Cloudflare cheaper if you pay annually?
- Yes — 20% cheaper. Paying for twelve months up front takes the entry plan from $25 a month to $20 a month. Both figures were read from the same pricing page in one visit, so the saving is arithmetic rather than a claim.
- What is Cloudflare used for?
- DNS, CDN, DDoS protection, WAF, Zero Trust access and edge compute, with a free tier that covers most small sites entirely. People mainly use it to protect a website, speed up a site, manage dns.
- What are the best alternatives to Cloudflare?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are 1Password, Bitwarden, Tailscale, Auth0. 1Password starts lower at $2.99 a month; Bitwarden starts lower at $1.65 a month; Tailscale starts lower at $8 a month. Bitwarden, Tailscale and Auth0 publish a free plan.