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Pros:

The free plan is great for small to medium-sized websites. It has all you need at no cost.

Cons:

Also every now and then my site looks odd. I clear the cache on site and browser and it still looks odd.

Cloudflare ratings

Average score

Ease of Use
4.6
Customer Service
4.3
Features
4.7
Value for Money
4.6

Likelihood to recommend

9.1/10

Cloudflare has an overall rating of 4.8 out 5 stars based on 481 user reviews on Capterra.

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Onur
Onur
Co-Founder in Türkiye
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Cloudflare Review

5.0 7 months ago

Comments: My overall experience with Cloudflare is very good. Cloudflare really helps us on exposing and securing our applications.

Pros:

We are using Cloudflare as loadbalancer and CDN provider. The services that Cloudflare providing is very stable and secure.

Cons:

The live customer support process can be enhanced. When the production system is impaired, we need someone to talk to immediately.

Vojtěch
Lead developer in Czechia
Computer Games, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

All-in-One Solution for your websites

5.0 last month New

Comments: I've had a really smooth experience with Cloudflare. In addition to domain registration, they offer many options to make your website safer, faster, and more efficient. It’s everything you could want in one platform.

Pros:

In my opinion, Cloudflare is the best domain registrar out there. You only pay the basic ICANN fee with no additional charges - at least that's what they claim. It's cheaper compared to competition either way.

Cons:

I wish they had a mobile app so I could monitor website stats and other details more easily. However, their website is well-designed, which helps make up for it. Another drawback is that you can't change a domain’s name servers without a paid plan.

Radek
board member in Poland
Entertainment, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Cloudflare - your defense against DDOS

3.0 6 months ago

Comments: I only can say that this is the easiest solution to prevent your site by geting down by DDOS atacks.

Pros:

It works very automaticly, you dont have to be an expert to use it. But if you need so you awlays can define yur own rules for firewall.

Cons:

My TFB was lowered by 0.5s its prety much, specialy if you want to have hight rank in google speed tests.

Amber
Part Owner in US
Construction Software, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Definitely didn’t enjoy it at all

1.0 3 months ago

Comments: Not good at all I wouldn’t use it again that’s for sure

Pros:

Easy to use, easy to navigate, very simple

Cons:

Couldn’t find certain apps because cloudfare wouldn’t allow it

Ali
Developer in US
Computer Software, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Solid platform for website performance and security

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Cloudflare has been a reliable tool for boosting website performance and ensuring security. It has helped reduce page load times significantly, and the added protection from DDoS attacks gives peace of mind. However, there is a bit of a learning curve for new users.

Pros:

Cloudflare provides excellent security features like DDoS protection and SSL certificates at an affordable price. The CDN is also fantastic for improving load times and reducing server strain, especially for high-traffic websites.

Cons:

The dashboard could be more user-friendly for beginners, and sometimes there are too many advanced settings that can be confusing. Additionally, the free plan is limited when it comes to some of the more advanced features.

Janne
Finance and Commerce in US
Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

It does everything right

4.0 3 weeks ago New

Comments: It has advanced protection that offers security against cyber attacks, protecting all applications, allowing good performance

Pros:

With the connectivity cloud I can have everything connected to everything for easy access to documents or information from anywhere. Its security is the most reliable because it makes everything flow correctly and with a fairly powerful and fast server that does not have slow loading times

Cons:

In itself, it does everything right and has not failed me at any time since its first day of operation

Er Avinash
Senior Technical Support Engineer in India
Information Services, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Cloud security product

4.0 4 weeks ago New

Comments: Cloudflare is giving great security support to the organization for any kind of suspicious activities. Page loading and performance of the systems improved as well as it timely worked and acted on cache. Support team is very responsive and making changes and working on this is easy and quick

Pros:

1. Amazing security features to protect from any malicious attack and configuring firewall. 2. Installation is easy , effective and can customize it according to our environment. 3. Helps in quick web page loading and cache clearing.

Cons:

1. Costly product for small orgs. 2. Issues came with custom scripts. Many got blocked by the Cloudflare with cause an impact. 3. Sometime it cause high Cpu utilization.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Go to tool for WAF

5.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

I like the granularity of Cloudflare Web application firewall to add specific rules to block certain characters, payloads, event listeners, html tags, etc. I used it to create labs on web vulnerabilities topics.

Cons:

Sometimes it took more than expected time for mapping the domain with WAF atleast for me.

Cody
Owner in US
Information Technology & Services, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Crucial network layer tools for security and speed

5.0 last month New

Pros:

Very robust out of the box options, even with the free plan.

Cons:

When updates are made to move or deprecate features, it takes some research to figure out alternative methods.

Owen
MD in UK
Consumer Goods, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Excellent SSL and cloud protection for free for domains

5.0 last month New

Pros:

Excellent SSL and cloud protection for free for domains, helped us fix a crucial SSL certificate error for our website

Cons:

more paid services than we require, but they are optional

Karambir
CEO in US
Nonprofit Organization Management, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Cloudflare...has lost its luster

3.0 2 years ago

Comments: Cloudflare has evolved from a simple tool to guarantee 24/7 availability and quick response time. When I compared it to QUIC.cloud and LiteSpeed, I found it did not perform as well.

Pros:

Cloudflare provides a number of features that are important/essential for small business websites (DNS management, caching, SSL, etc.)

Cons:

Overly complex and increasingly expensive without achieving optimal performance and 24/7 guarantees.

Ben
Manager in UK
Computer Software, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

A great layer of protection with varying price plans

4.0 6 months ago

Pros:

I like that CloudFlare offers very quick and easy protection with its free nameservers and DNS capabilities. It is a great way of adding protection and additional features to your website or network by simply changing your nameservers and receiving free features such as SSL, a firewall, page rules and more. It has offered a great amount of protection even on its free plan and its feature continue to be useful to this very date throughout the 10+ years I have used them.

Cons:

I am not fond of the constant changes to the older features, whilst the newer ones do take a bit of getting used to, it is a little cumbersome when you are trying to perform a simple change that you now have to do differently. The support can also be slightly hit-or-miss as they try to make you increase your plan to receive faster or better support.

Lee
Manager in UK
Civil Engineering, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Cloudflare

5.0 5 months ago

Comments: I use Cloudflare for all my websites and recommend to everybody. Even at the free plan it offers enchanted security and and the fastest DNS in the world.

Pros:

Adding website to Cloudflare is very easy, you just need to change the nameservers. I really like Cloudflare because is adding another layer of security to my website. It has a fast content delivery network integrated and as i read all over the internet the fastest DNSs.

Cons:

There are no cons, from the free plan to Enterprise it offers some nice features.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

One of the best Product for CDN and Security

5.0 last year

Comments: We are using cloudflare for DNS management, WAF and caching.The product is very easy to useIt is extensively customizableDocumentation is available API is easy to useIntegration is very easyWorkers are available Strong user communityProduct functionality and performanceStrong services expertiseDNS managementCan modify request and response headers

Pros:

The product is very easy to useIt is extensively customizableDocumentation is available API is easy to useIntegration is very easyWorkers are available Strong user communityProduct functionality and performanceStrong services expertiseDNS managementCan modify request and response headers

Cons:

Sometimes there are false positivesTo use the workers one needs to know about javascript

Carlos Jose
Carlos Jose
Automation in Guatemala
Verified LinkedIn User
Industrial Automation, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Cloudflare

5.0 last year

Pros:

I use it for my website and is free, I have a secure website SSL

Cons:

I only have one email address and I have a lot of spam and a lot of bad emails coming from my same email address, not good

Michaël
Network and Security Engineer in France
Retail, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Cloudflare review

4.0 5 months ago

Pros:

Efficient and one of the best services on the world

Cons:

Can be hard to setup. For example Cloudflared. Can also be quickly dependant of Cloudflare

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Airlines/Aviation, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

It promises security and performance.

4.0 last year

Pros:

I had the chance to test cloudflare's contribution to performance under healthy conditions. I can say that it was legendary service. so that; You'll be surprised that it's free. Reduces page load time by at least half.

Cons:

The company must configure the Turnstile service properly. Otherwise, it will constantly issue a verification warning when connecting or exiting the site, which of course is not pleasant for normal users or customers.

Ibrahim
Ibrahim
Assistant Relationship Manager in Egypt
Verified LinkedIn User
Banking, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Security will always be your aim here

5.0 12 months ago

Comments: My overall experience was really satisfying

Pros:

I’m using cloudflare for 2 years now in using the DNS services to secure my computer and my network in general it’s like using a VPN without using a VPN which helped me to access lots of stuff that wasn’t available in my country of residence. The app has lots of uses for cybersecurity, computer security, network security etc and it’s really good and reliable

Cons:

It sometimes bugs or freezes but it’s hard to find an app with all these combined features in one place

Mehmet
Developer in Türkiye
Media Production, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

One tool to secure your several web sites

4.0 last year

Pros:

“It is very easy to integrate and manage our website with Cloudflare. Also, being able to transfer our domains to CF made the process even easier.”

Cons:

I didn’t see any negative point. Except that not all packages are free, of course.

Ja'Keya
Manager in US
Real Estate, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Amazing for email security

5.0 7 months ago

Pros:

I have been using Cloudflare for a year or so and this have been the best for keeping secure information while emailing my clients. I never had to worry about any information getting into the wrong hands. WILL CONTINUE TO USE

Cons:

I don't have anything bad to say about Cloudflare

Ida Bagus Ketut
Fullstack Web Developer in Indonesia
Computer Software, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Cloudflare Warp as VPN protection when browsing the internet

5.0 last year

Comments: Im very happy with Cloudflare specially for the WARP DNS, i can search the internet faster and secure at the same time

Pros:

Im using the VPN everyday for browsing the internet, it makes my internet browsing run faster and secure at the same time

Cons:

Sometime the WARP DNS/VPN making some of my game lagging and some of site that can't be visited when the VPN is on

Joel
Joel
Assistant Quality Controller in Uganda
Verified LinkedIn User
Dairy, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Cloudflare Optimizes our website and secures it

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: The solution provides our website with maximum security from bots

Pros:

Cloudflare optimizes our website and protects it from bot traffic, I like the analytic interface because it displays detailed figures

Cons:

the solution initially makes the website load very slowly as it analyzes the browsers which make us to lose traffic from impatient clients

Sharif
Inventory analyst in Uganda
Logistics & Supply Chain, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

easy to set up

5.0 last year

Comments: I use the software to secure my website and applications from bot traffic

Pros:

software easy to setup, you only modify nameserves and you are ready to go and have your site secured

Cons:

It makes website to load so slow on intermittent internet connections and when you are connected to a VPN

Mohd Nubli
Lecturer in Malaysia
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

What an awesome software

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Overall Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) and cybersecurity that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites, apps and other internet properties. It offers various services including web acceleration, DNS management and various security services including distributed denial of service attack mitigation, web application firewall, bot mitigation and identity verification services.

Pros:

Cloudflare is a high-performance global network. It offers secure and reliable services at competitive prices. In addition it offers powerful WAF and DDoS protection as well as an easy-to-use and user-friendly dashboard. Customizable DNS and caching plus advanced analytics and real-time analytics.

Cons:

Caching may cause some website features to not load correctly. Also, the preparation can be complicated in some cases. Customization options are also quite limited, and costs can add up quickly depending on service level and usage.

James
Parts Manager in Canada
Automotive, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Cloudflare

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: I use it for tunnel access to monitor remotely and it works great

Pros:

It works flawlessly to remotely access network

Cons:

i am completely satisfied there is nothing I can say bad about it