The lack of page and firewall rules mean it's not nearly as configurable as the commercial products, though, and the lack of support might be an issue if you're using it with anything business-critical.
It's simple enough for beginners to use, yet has enough power to be useful for heavy-duty sites. Unsurprisingly, Cloudflare Free is the standout product here.
A dedicated SSL certificate costs only $5 a month 5 extra page rules costs $5 smart routing and load balancing also start at $5 a month, and rate limiting protects against denial-of-service attacks, brute-force password attempts and more for $0.05 per 10,000 good requests.
You can extend these plans with a range of add-ons. All this sounds good to us, although we're less convinced by the $200 a month price tag. Overall, there's probably enough functionality here to justify the cost, especially for high traffic sites which would be hit with extra bandwidth charges on other CDNs.Ĭloudflare Business ramps up the high-end features with advanced DDoS protection, custom SSL certificate upload, optimized delivery of dynamic content, PCI compliance, prioritized support and up to 50 page rules. There are more user agent and firewall rules, and real-time alerts of DDoS attacks. The email support gets a median response time of two hours. This extends the free plan with Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall, throws in the image optimization tools, and allows up to 20 page rules.
The plan is free forever, too, with no bandwidth limits.Ĭloudflare Pro is a $20 a month account aimed at professional users. You get the same access to some advanced features, like the REST API, as the commercial accounts. This places strict limits on some features (basic DDoS protection only, just 3 page rules included), and drops others entirely (no image optimisations), but there are no stupid restrictions to try and force you to upgrade. The Cloudflare product range starts with a basic free plan. You get support for IPv6, HTTP/3, WebSockets, page rules to manipulate traffic, a REST API, dedicated SSL certificates and more. While Cloudflare has a strong focus on ease-of-use and consumer-friendly features, the service also offers plenty for the more demanding and technical user.