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A global, enterprise-grade content delivery network (CDN)
Backed by 330 locations worldwide, our CDN optimizes static and dynamic content for device, browser, and bandwidth needs.
Our CDN supports global content delivery with a network that spans over 330 locations.
Our CDN helps reduce your hosting fees by reducing requests to your origin server and minimizing bandwidth usage.
Our CDN serves content as close to your end users as possible — within approximately 50 milliseconds of ~95% of the Internet-connected population — resulting in faster load times and a better web experience.
HOW IT WORKS
Our CDN runs every service on every server in every Cloudflare data center — ensuring that content is served to end users from the closest available location.
The breadth of our global network allows us to deliver static and dynamic content at the highest scale, while simultaneously maximizing performance and resiliency.
ANALYST RECOGNITION
Cloudflare named a 'Leader' in 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Edge Delivery Services.
“Switching to Cloudflare, our system was 27% faster overnight. It improved our performance right off the bat — cache rates jumped immediately and things just started flowing.”
Chief Information Security Officer — Pacsun
CDN top use cases
Develop and serve applications at the edge of our network to ensure better reliability and performance, even during unexpected traffic surges.
Simplify your deployments and infrastructure for better scalability and an optimized user experience.
Eliminate hidden costs — like hardware refreshes and egress fees — to reduce your overall TCO.
PRICING
Free
forever
Add-ons billed monthly
For personal or hobby projects that aren’t business-critical.
Pro
per month (paid annually)
When billed annually or $25/mo if billed monthly
For professional websites that aren't business-critical.
Business
When billed annually or $250/mo if billed monthly
For small businesses operating online.
Contract
Billed annually
For mission-critical applications that are core to your business.
New Externa packages available
Community forums and documentation
Tickets + community forums
Tickets + chat + community forums
Tickets 24x7x365 + chat + phone + community forums
Our 330 data centers located across the globe provide visitors with location-based access to your website, while removing latency and improving performance.
Cloudflare is compatible with your existing SSL configuration. If you do not currently use SSL, Cloudflare can provide you with SSL capabilities — no configuration required.
Cloudflare DDoS protection secures websites and applications while ensuring the performance of legitimate traffic is not compromised.
Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's intuitive dashboard enables users to build powerful rules through easy clicks and also provides Terraform integration. Every request to the WAF is inspected against the rule engine and the threat intelligence curated from protecting millions of websites. Suspicious requests can be blocked, challenged, or logged per the needs of the user while legitimate requests are routed to the destination, whether it lives on-premises or in the cloud.
Polish applies "lossless" or optional "lossy" image optimization to reduce your image sizes by 35% on average.
Resize images for a variety of device types and connections from a single-source primary image. Images can be manipulated by dimensions, compression ratios, and format (WebP conversion where supported). Available as a paid add-on with Cloudflare Images.
5000 per month
Mirage automatically optimizes image loading through virtualized and lazyloaded images. It detects the browser type of a visitor and optimizes performance for the particular device, improving the performance of images on a mobile connection.
100%
Manage good and bad bots in real time with speed and accuracy by harnessing the data from the millions of Internet properties on Cloudflare.
Simple bots
Easy-to-detect bots
Sophisticated bots and basic bot analytics
All bots, anomaly detection, custom CAPTCHAs & threat response, advanced bot analytics, and more
Insight
Understand traditional challenges customers face with web applications and how our CDN significantly improves content delivery and performance.
Solution brief
Legacy CDN services are costly and time-consuming to maintain. Cloudflare makes CDN migrations quick and easy — with minimal disruption to your day-to-day operations.
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A CDN can drastically improve web and application performance, resiliency, and security — while minimizing bandwidth usage and associated costs.
The Cloudflare CDN is a global, enterprise-grade content delivery network that optimizes static and dynamic content for various devices, browsers, and bandwidth needs. The Cloudflare CDN makes web applications faster, no matter where its users are located.
The Cloudflare CDN enhances performance and user experience by serving content to end users from the closest possible location. The Cloudflare network has locations within approximately 50 milliseconds of about 95% of the Internet-connected population, which means content can reach end users in less than the blink of an eye.
Cloudflare's CDN helps lower hosting fees by reducing the number of requests to origin servers, minimizing bandwidth usage.
Cloudflare's global network spans over 330 cities worldwide, supporting massive-scale content delivery.
The Cloudflare CDN improves reliability and performance even during traffic surges, enhances the user experience through simplified deployments, and lowers operational costs by eliminating unnecessary fees and backend costs.
Cloudflare was named a "Leader" in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Edge Delivery Services.
Cloudflare runs every service on every server in all its data centers, ensuring that content is delivered to end users from the closest available location.
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