Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Cloudflare
The 20 closest content delivery network alternatives to Cloudflare, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 18 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Cloudflare? The closest matches are Fastly, Cloudflare Status and Akamai Technologies. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare cloudflare.com
Cloudflare: Build for the agent era
Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications
Wikidata: American internet infrastructure and website security company
Summary by Claude
Cloudflare provides a global network offering content delivery, DDoS protection, DNS, web application firewall, zero trust network access, and serverless edge compute and storage for websites, applications and corporate networks.
- Who it’s for
- Website owners, developers and enterprises
- Business model
- Subscriptions and usage-based fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Cloudflare’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Cloudflare
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Cloudflare, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Powering the best of the internet | Fastly
Fastly's edge cloud platform delivers faster, safer, and more scalable sites and apps to customers. Elevate your edge CDN, video delivery, security, and more.
Very close cos 0.914 - 02
Cloudflare Status
Real-time status and incident history for Cloudflare services, network locations, and scheduled maintenance.
Very close cos 0.910 - 03
Leading Cloud Enterprise Security Provider for Zero Trust
Zscaler is a leading cloud enterprise security provider helping global businesses adopt zero trust for secure digital transformation.
Very close cos 0.898 - 04
bunny.net - The Global Edge Platform that truly Hops
Hop on bunny.net and speed up your web presence with the next-generation Content Delivery Service (CDN), Edge Storage, and Optimization Services at any scale.
Very close cos 0.898 - 05
OVHcloud
OVHcloud is a global, cloud provider delivering hosted private cloud, public cloud, and dedicated server solutions trusted by over 1.5 million developers.
Very close cos 0.899 - 06
Image and Video Platform for Visual Experiences | Cloudinary
Streamline media management and improve user experience by automatically delivering images and videos, enhanced and optimized for every user.
Very close cos 0.896 - 07
NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
Very close cos 0.894 - 08
Cloud, Cybersecurity, Managed Networks, and Communications Services | Claranet
Modernise and protect your organisation with our expert approach and global leadership in transformation and technology.
Close cos 0.891 - 09
File sharing and storage made simple
MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.
Very close cos 0.895 - 10
Hybrid Multicloud App Security & Delivery for the AI Era | F5
Unified delivery & security for applications, APIs, & AI workloads across any infrastructure, trusted by 85% of the Fortune 500. Secure your digital ecosystem.
Close cos 0.890 - 11
Free DNS hosting, Cloud DNS hosting and Domain names | ClouDNS
ClouDNS provides Free DNS, Cloud DNS, Managed DNS, GeoDNS and DDoS Protected DNS hosting with included web redirects, mail forwards and Round-Robin load balancing. Instant updates in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.
Close cos 0.889 - 12
Advanced Website Protection for Unmatched Cyber Defense
Safeguard your devices with Comodo's advanced endpoint protection and protect your websites from malware and cyber threats. Secure your site now!
Close cos 0.886 - 13
WeTransfer | Skicka stora filer snabbt
Det enkla, snabba och säkra sättet att skicka filer till hela världen utan ett konto. Dela filer, foton och videor idag helt gratis.
Close cos 0.887 - 14
Snowflake AI Data Cloud
Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation.
Close cos 0.884 - 15
datadome.co
cybersecurity company
Close cos 0.885 - 16
Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel
The autonomous stack for every app and agent.
Close cos 0.884 - 17
Egnyte: AI Context Layer & Content Cloud for Enterprises
23,000+ businesses use Egnyte to give AI the business context it needs, collaborate on massive files, and govern sensitive content on one secure platform.
Close cos 0.883 - 18
Control your data governance with an independent cloud. Solutions hosted in the heart of Europe, designed to protect your confidentiality.
Close cos 0.886 - 19
Cybersecurity Solutions: Email, Apps, Network, Data | Barracuda Networks
Barracuda Networks is the worldwide leader in Email Protection, Application Protection, Network Security, and Data Protection Solutions
Close cos 0.882 - 20
The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai
Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
- OneTrust
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
Close cos 0.883
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to cloudflare.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Cloudflare uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Cloudflare is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Astro meta generator: Astro v6.3.7
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:199.15.212.0/22 ip4:173.245.48.0/20 include:_spf.google.co…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=5096d01ff2cf194285dd51cae18f24fa9c26dc928cebac363…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f7713c2862bc-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:199.15.212.0/22 ip4:173.245.48.0/20 include:_spf.google.co…
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms70274184
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 ip4:199.15.212.0/22 ip4:173.245.48.0/20 include:_spf.google.co…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=DNnWJoArJobFJKhJ
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=WxxKyN9aLnjEsoOjUYI6T0bb5vcqmKzaIkC9Rx2…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=oOyaVnHC-OiFoR1BPvetNA
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=C7thfNeXVahkVhniiqTI1iSVnElKR_kBBtnEHkeGDlo
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=h9mm6zopj6p2po54woa16m5bskm6oo
- Miro TXT miro-verification=bdd7dfa0a49adfb43ad6ddfaf797633246c07356
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:199.15.212.0/22 ip4:173.245.48.0/20 include:_spf.google.co…
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_7LFBvOO9SIigypFG2xRlMA
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Cloudflare adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 13/20
- Google Workspace 8/20
- jQuery · not on cloudflare.com 8/20
- Microsoft 365 7/20
- nginx · not on cloudflare.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Apple Business 6/20
- Bootstrap · not on cloudflare.com 6/20
- Atlassian 5/20
- DocuSign · not on cloudflare.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on cloudflare.com 5/20
- React · not on cloudflare.com 5/20
- Miro 4/20
- OneTrust 4/20
- Salesforce 4/20
- Adobe · not on cloudflare.com 4/20