Cloudflare
Global anycast CDN and security platform sold as flat per-domain plans without per-GB bandwidth fees on self-serve tiers.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- No / not documented
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Provider type
- Edge platform. A CDN inside a larger platform: WAF and bot management, edge compute and enterprise support contracts.
- Billing
- subscription
- Free tier
- Free plan includes CDN caching with no bandwidth charge, for non-business-critical sites.
- Open source
- No
- Website
- www.cloudflare.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. Per-domain website proxy pricing; not a general-purpose unlimited media CDN. Check content terms and multiply by the domains that need Pro. How to read these estimates.
| Base fee / month |
|---|
| $20 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
- Base fee / month
- $20
- Minimum bill / month
- $0
- Included bandwidth / month (GB)
- 0
- Bandwidth / GB
- $0
- 10k requests
- $0
Plans are per domain. Modelled on Pro at $20/mo billed annually ($25 billed monthly). Business is $200/mo annually ($250 monthly). Self-serve plans have no per-GB bandwidth charge. Enterprise traffic is contract-based and priced individually. EU residency only via the Data Localization Suite (Enterprise add-on: Regional Services, Customer Metadata Boundary). The DPA covers self-serve and enterprise customers.
What companies report paying
What other customers have paid for Cloudflare, with sources. Their usage, features and discounts may differ from yours; these are not quotes.
- $22,105/yr · Vendr median across ALL Cloudflare purchases (includes self-serve and non-CDN products, not enterprise-CDN-only); range $5,520-$83,209; 624 purchases (header: 330 deals handled); avg savings 20%; page 'Last updated: February 2026'
“Median buyer pays $22,105 per year Based on data from 624 purchases, with buyers saving 20% on average. Median: $22,105 $5,520 $83,209 Low High”
Vendr purchase data, Oct 2026 - $30,000/yr · Enterprise plan at ~10 TB/month (from personal experience); SSL for SaaS add-on separately ~$40k/yr
“From personal experience I know that 10TB per month is like 30k/year and SSL for SaaS is around 40k/year on the enterprise plan.”
Hacker News, May 2024 - $12,000/yr · Annualized from ~$1k/month for an undocumented 'light' enterprise tier; no usage stated
“This exists but isn’t really documented, we pay ~$1k/mo for a “light” enterprise version of Cloudflare.”
Hacker News, Apr 2024 - $60,000/yr · Enterprise customer; range $5k-$10k/month (same comment: 'the 5-10k we spend a month'), annualized $60k-$120k; 5-10 enterprise domains, ~100M requests/month, ~70 TB/month; says most cost is 24/7 support
“we are paying (ballpark) 5-10k for our account. We have 5-10 domains on the enterprise plan, and we have roughly 100m requests per month plus about 70TB bandwidth, IIRC”
Hacker News, Jan 2022
Managed alternatives
At 20,000 GB egress / month, 500M requests / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Cloudflare: $240/yr estimated.
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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