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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated September 16th, 2026 # Reviews of Cloudflare Ease of use 4.6 Customer Service 4.3 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews KS Kaynan S Software EngineerComputer Software, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “At NextDay AI, the combination of traffic protection, flexible security controls, caching, R2 storage and Pages helps us keep services fast and reliable while simplifying parts of our infrastructure.“ July 10, 2026 MA Mallory A Director of OperationsMarketing and Advertising, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “One downside of Cloudflare is that its bot protection can sometimes flag real users as suspicious, triggering verification challenges and making it harder for legitimate visitors to access a website.“ April 30, 2026 KS Kaynan S Software EngineerComputer Software, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “We use it primarily for security and caching, and its broader platform gives us useful options such as R2, Pages and Access when a project needs them.“ July 10, 2026 Jerry L OwnerComputer & Network Security, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Another challenge is understanding proxy settings, which can sometimes interfere with services like direct server access or certain APIs.“ April 21, 2026 HV Hrithik V Software Engineer - Trading SystemsFinancial Services, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Features like DNS, CDN, SSL, WAF, and Access integrate well and help improve both reliability and application security.“ June 26, 2026 JW Jordan W Head of DigitalPublic Relations and Communications, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Sometimes Cloudflare will be over protective with its security features and will change what their peraminiters are so it can lead to false positives sometimes.“ April 27, 2026 DS Daniel R. S FounderComputer Software, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “For $25 a month I get full domain protection and they have build in ruleset that stop attacks and I am able to use my own rules sets as well.“ September 15, 2025 PR Patricia R PresidentInternet, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “If their service goes down, our site has gone down even if our own webserver is fine. “ September 30, 2025 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 524 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Kaushik P. CEO Food & Beverages Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Cloudflare magic" March 14, 2026 5.0 Easy Account setup,I have created my website with lovable.dev it easily integrate with few clicks and within minustes of Integration my website is launched.No other prompts or demand for fees everything completed with prompts its sheer magic. Pros Its allow user to create account easily While Setting up my website with cloudflare I need reliable free hosting company to launch my website. It helps me to save my lot of money as it handles DNS management, Provides free SSL certificate, actually it give me enterprise level security and performance My website is \[sensitive content hidden\] Cons The dashboard is overwhelming as it packed with many many advance features, as when I look to manage my basic DNS records standard security learning it with YouTube etc. is very time consuming steep. Alternatives considered [Netlify](https://www.capterra.com/p/154989/Netlify/) Reason for choosing Cloudflare Its easy to setup and integrate with Github, DDS protection SSL Certificate. Review Source DRS Daniel R. S. Founder Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cloudflare is beast in cloud security . Yes I said they are beasts! " September 15, 2025 5.0 Pros I am BIG on Cybersecurity and Cloudflare is the best. I remember reading an article about how they were able to fend of the largest DDOS attack in history and I am not surprised. For $25 a month I get full domain protection and they have build in ruleset that stop attacks and I am able to use my own rules sets as well. I love all the features. I can even Livestream and have a secure cloud service of my videos with them for just an additional 5-10 dollars per month is Cons What I like least is that you can't contact customer support during an attack unless you have the business plan which is $250 per month Alternatives considered [AWS CloudFormation](https://www.capterra.com/p/205397/CloudFormation/) Reason for choosing Cloudflare The price of cloudflare. Although AWS is advanced the features for the price I get with cloudflare is unmatched Switched from [GoDaddy Website Security](https://www.capterra.com/p/234109/GoDaddy-Website-Security/) Cloudflare's price , and advanced features sold me Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Founder Media Production Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great for data protection" August 11, 2026 5.0 Pros What I like most about Cloudflare is its speed, reliability, security, and privacy when logging into a new website. Cons What I like least about cloudflare is when it crashes sometimes and we lose access to make websites. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer President Internet Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "CloudFlair for Speed" September 30, 2025 3.0 We use it for loading speed. We host over 100, and those that work with CloudFlair have faster loading times, improving overall SEO Pros the idea that website will load faster and offers protection from internet issue, like DOS attacks. Because of the way it distribute traffic, it helps with load balancing, and improves reliably. Cons If their service goes down, our site has gone down even if our own webserver is fine. There are some compatibility issues, but difficult to pinpoint Review Source KS Kaynan S. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A dependable security and performance layer for our applications" July 10, 2026 5.0 Overall, Cloudflare has been a dependable part of our stack at NextDay AI. We use it primarily for security and caching, and its broader platform gives us useful options such as R2, Pages and Access when a project needs them. It has helped us improve performance and add protection at the edge without creating a large operational burden. Pros Cloudflare gives us a strong security and performance layer without forcing every concern into the application itself. At NextDay AI, the combination of traffic protection, flexible security controls, caching, R2 storage and Pages helps us keep services fast and reliable while simplifying parts of our infrastructure. The caching options are especially valuable for reducing unnecessary origin load and improving response times. Cons Some of the more advanced configuration can take time to understand, especially when multiple cache rules, security settings and access policies interact. Troubleshooting whether an issue comes from the application, the cache or a Cloudflare rule is not always straightforward, and the dashboard can feel dense when moving beyond the basic setup. Review Source CB Calixte B. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Really Complete and powerful " November 5, 2025 5.0 Pros Cloudflare is a really complete platform. The bot protection is fully configurable, as well as the WAF. You can create a lot of different rules to do exactly what you want. The offers are really cheap: the free plan is really generous, as well as the pro and business plans. Cons The CloudFlare support is really slow when you have a Free or Pro subscription . Also, the billing system sometimes have issue and you need to contact support. Alternatives considered [Fastly](https://www.capterra.com/p/209928/Fastly/) Reason for choosing Cloudflare CloudFlare seemed more adapted for our use, it’s better for small infrastructure Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Director of Research and Development Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Reliable for the most part" April 23, 2026 5.0 Overall, it's a slick platform. I think that the way to improve it is to extend the reliability (although, I realize it's basically all of the way there already) Pros Cloudflare is very convenient for dns management. We found it more reliable than Godaddy for our domain names. I appreciate the 'actively being hacked' mode that you can turn on to prevent traffic. Cons There was a major cloudflare outage that happened which left us hanging (and all of our customers) for several hours. That's expensive. Switched from [GoDaddy Website Security](https://www.capterra.com/p/234109/GoDaddy-Website-Security/) We switched because godaddy was unreliable at times Review Source Nathan H. Principle Consumer Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great value for the money. Excellent support. " January 27, 2026 5.0 Excellent. They gave me what I needed. I had switched after adobe business catalyst went out of service. Cloudflare was much better. Pros It was good value for my mo ey. They hosted my site and I used word press to build. Customer support was timely, effective and easy to use. Cons I had no negative issues. Worked for my needs. I’m a small business and never had any outages. I’d recommend them to anyone needing website hosting. Switched from [Adobe Creative Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/48969/Adobe-Creative-Cloud/) The product went out of service. Was forced to make a switch and cloudflare delivered a better product. Review Source VV Vikas V. Software Consultant Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CloudFlare is a hero!" February 19, 2025 5.0 I migrated a lot of my clients to Cloudflare because of one reason or the other and they never disappointed me! One of my clients had a really bad Bot issue. The website would go down because a lot of bots would crawl and the bandwidth is taken up by the bots and real users would suffer. He would increase his resources to deal with the problem but when I moved it to Cloudflare, it was all taken care with just a few settings like a bit of magic. He saved a lot because he no longer had to increase the resources. Pros It is the best in the market! After trying and testing various products, I can tell with confidence that CloudFlare is the best. The features, quality, pricing are all unmatched. Bot prevention and DDoS attack prevention is the best out there! Cons I find the pricing a bit on the higher side but for the service they provide, I think it is worth the price considering that there is volume for your service. Switched from [Sucuri Website Security](https://www.capterra.com/p/141158/Sucuri-Website-Security/)[SiteGround](https://www.capterra.com/p/228543/SiteGround/) Like I said, there is no comparison for Cloudflare. They are the best! The other services had customer support issues and also there were downtimes. Not sure how it would be for high stakes services but I'm happy with CloudFlare Review Source Andrew M. Owner Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The de-facto standard for bot protection" May 26, 2026 5.0 Pros Great for protecting your sites against bots, multi-user DNS and access control to internal sites via the WAF, all for fairly cheap Cons The newer UI is a bit confusing on which site you are working with, and some of the features are a bit complex to work with. WARP could be better. It's becoming a single point of failure for the web Review Source CW Christopher W. Creative Director Media Production Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cloudflare is " November 25, 2023 4.0 We have used Cloudflare for our company and personal websites for over four years without many issues. They have great features and if you are not tech savvy with the installation of SSL Certs or setting up rules this product can help you a lot. Their support can be a bit hit and miss but you usually get a response within 24 hours. We have seen some of the biggest and best brands in the world use Cloudflare and it’s really good how much you get for the price. Pros Our company uses Cloudflare for all of our websites. Cloudflare acts as a CDN, a firewall and also a performance layer for websites as well as protecting our websites from attacks. They respond to our needs quickly and it's relatively insexpensive Cons The customer support could be a bit better. Switched from [SiteGround](https://www.capterra.com/p/228543/SiteGround/)[Bluehost](https://www.capterra.com/p/229168/Bluehost/) We made the switch as we were increasing our content and number of websites. Cloudflare had the best deal. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Director Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CDN, Internal Network Security, WAF. Cloudflare does it all" November 17, 2021 5.0 My overall experience with Cloudflare has been amazing. While their support can be frustrating at times with making you go around in circles understanding the issue, in the end, they get things solved, and will often pass you up the chain to their Tier 2 support to have a personal connection to try and get things sorted. Pros When we first used Cloudflare as our CDN, we discovered brilliance. Finally a CDN for everyone, with a freemium model to get your services round the globe at a fraction of the cost of everyone else. Be careful though, once you're in this freemium model, you're soon diving deep into all of their features where you're MORE than happy to hand over the money. From Network and Device security in Cloudflare for Teams to WAFs, easy to use page rules, Tunnelling, and optimisations for delivery across the network, you're soon using it all and using it all without the need for large IT teams to get it set up. Cons A few downsides, which are all related, is somethings things aren't quite working and you're not sure why. It seems the features of the system grew massively and more quickly than they were expecting and their UI and UX didn't keep up. Once you get on the chat and they explain what's going on, it's easy to fix, however for the moment, it can be confusing to try and figure it out yourself. Alternatives considered [Akamai Identity Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/225310/Janrain/)[Amazon CloudFront](https://www.capterra.com/p/228455/Amazon-CloudFront/) Reason for choosing Cloudflare We chose Cloudflare purely on price, and we've not really looked back Review Source KO Keith O. Owner Computer Hardware Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Its okay if you have alot of time" June 20, 2025 3.0 It was okay. I wasn't happy about the long installation. It comes basic and you have to expand from there. Pros I liked the customer service help, the ease of installation. It took a bit to set up but ran good after. Cons Looong set up, it was tedious because you need to download alot of defenses because its basic and not included. Review Source JK John K. fseufhkusef Airlines/Aviation Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "totally recommended" May 14, 2025 5.0 Pros After a disastrous experience with our existing DNS provider (Crazy Domains), which, after 6 hours, couldn't even provide any information on when their service would be up and running again, we switched to Cloudflare, and the re-routing was instant. So totally recommended. We advise creating an account with these guys, so if you need to use them in a hurry, everything is all set. Cons Everything's amazing, definitely would give them a five-star review Review Source dS david S. Owner Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best DNS management solution I have found" February 14, 2025 5.0 I use cloudflare in my business to manage the DNS for all of my domains. It makes the process really easy, allows me to manage all of the DNS entries from a central dashboard and I can easily allow access to individual domains for third parties when required. Pros I love how easy it is to set up and manage DNS on cloudflare and also the amount of functionality including the creation of landing page templates and redirection rules. I also love the fact that I can easily provide access on a granular basis to third party vendors or clients using cloudflare permissions management. Cons I can'th think of anything that I don't like about cloudflare. Review Source MW Mary W. proprietor Accounting Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Companies you are losing business when you use Cloudflare" January 26, 2026 1.0 O Zero ie NO STARS Pros not anything it is a useless block for people trying to conduct business. Cons block for no reason. no assistance to correct block. no customer service or way to contact anyone at Cloudflare. very inconsistent with the pages it blocks at a site. Review Source VK Vatsal K. SDE Intern Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Cloudfare Warp- decent VPN for free" April 26, 2025 4.0 Pros Cloudfare's WARP is a nice free VPN to stabilise internet connection of device. Works decent enough for a free product. Cons After installing, starts to act like bloatware a lot of times and many times won't let you use it until you update it to latest version. Review Source EG Erika G. Data Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "DDos Protector" January 9, 2025 5.0 Pros It’s great for DDoS protection, has a global CDN, and gives free SSL certificates Cons There’s a lot to figure out at the start. Some of the cooler advanced tools are only in the higher-paid plans Review Source AK Ali K. Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Solid platform for website performance and security" October 22, 2024 5.0 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. Review Source Nadish H. Digital Media Head Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the best website security and CDN service" March 5, 2022 5.0 Well it's along story, I found CloudFlare while I was searching for Free CDN service for website. I was analyzing one of my website through GTMetrix and found one recommendation to use CDN. I knew that CDN is a costly service, atleast at costly as my monthly hosting service, so I searched for Free CDN service and luckily found CloudFlare. I explored it on my own and slowly and gradually I got total command on CloudFlare. Now I integrate each of my website's website with CloudFlare in order to hide the nameservers + adding security and preventing from DDoS attacks hence enhancing loading speed and overall performance of my website. Pros Who doesn't love to have something as wonderful as CloudFlare for FREE? To be honest, I'm using CloudFlare since more than 3 years now and still using the free version because it covers all my CDN and website security needs. :) The other thing that I cannot ignore or even miss is the Free SSL by cloudflare for 15 years, isn't it amazing? :) I know that there're other free SSL services available on internet also, but I totally trust on CloudFlare so I always use free SSL by CloudFlare. It's really easy to install and has multiple options for the encryption like flexible, full and full restrict. And at last but not least, how can I forget or ignore the Speed Optimization features of CloudFlare :) The auto minify feature for JavaScript, CSS and HTML can be switched on or off independently so that you can never break your website. And the options like Brotli, Optimized Delivery and Rocket Loader is like cherry on top of the cake. :) Cons Well, nothing. I'm truly satisfied with the results, so there's nothing that I can say that I like least about CloudFlare. Review Source Andrius L. Stock keeper Food Production Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Cloudflare your servers to prevent from disasters" September 8, 2022 5.0 If the user or admin cares about the security of the data and wants to save some time securing the data, should set up the service. Pros While it is not completely free considering how much tha security of the servers can impact whole workflow it is worth to pay extra to sleep well Cons Creates extra time to load the website and/or check the browser. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer DevOps Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "One of the best Product for CDN and Security" October 4, 2023 5.0 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 Review Source Michelangelo C. Freelance Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best CDN ever" August 15, 2022 5.0 The best CDN ever, really. I have nothing else to say. Pros I can only say positive things about Cloudflare: it is fast, very easy to set up, never gives problems, it helps you even when the site temporarily goes out of service, you do not need assistance because you already know that you will not have big problems. All this is free (unless you need some specific options that you will pay dearly) Cons I would have only two details to say: When you add the site in Cloudflare, he goes to scan all the possible subdomains and, if he receives the famous answer 200 (so that the page, and consequently the subdomain, exists) he will automatically add it. What does it mean? Some hosting always give a positive answer, even if the subdomain doesn't exist. In this case CF will create hundreds of non-existent DNS records to be deleted one by one (because it does not provide for bulk deletion) Second thing is that unfortunately it does not plan to have dedicated IPs, even in the high paying plans. Alternatives considered [Amazon CloudFront](https://www.capterra.com/p/228455/Amazon-CloudFront/)[Vercel](https://www.capterra.com/p/203626/Vercel/) Review Source Iddy H. AWS Cloud Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best Cloud Provider" October 1, 2024 5.0 Pros It is very to use and deploy my resources to the cloud. Cons Due to internet connection I may find hard to connect to my cloud Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Coder Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Nearly every single site we set up gets run through CloudFlare because of it's security and control." June 25, 2018 5.0 It's great knowing CloudFlare is protecting our site from DDOS attacks. Their caching features make pages load incredibly fast, and their javascript CDN makes our sites load even faster still. The instantly updated DNS settings eliminates any downtime, meaning our users never even notice the switch. Pros Once the nameservers are set up at the registrar to point to CloudFlare, DNS changes within CloudFlare are instantaneous. This is a huge deal when moving from one server to another. Having built-in SSL is another great way to provide peace of mind to our visitors. By essentially acting as a reverse proxy, it keeps our servers' IP addresses hidden from would-be attackers. Their bot and DDOS detection is legendary and their basic analytics are surprisingly helpful. A CloudFlare hosted CDN, cdnjs.com, has countless globally hosted scripts that make site building not only easier, but it also ensures the end results performs incredibly well. It's been years since I've set up a site that didn't have some CloudFlare feature built in. Cons I haven't had any luck with some of their automatic HTML/JS optimization features that involve rewriting the code. I can see how they would speed up page load, but I've often found they've broken my site. I don't really need that feature, so I'm not missing out, but if you're going to give it a try, make sure you test thoroughly, as you should be with any change made to a public server ;) Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.