What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is the cloud for the “everywhere world”


Today, everything needs to be connected to everything everywhere, all the time. This hyperconnectivity creates new challenges related to security, performance, resilience and privacy.

As the world’s first connectivity cloud, Cloudflare helps connect and protect millions of customers globally. Everyone from individuals to the world’s largest enterprises use our unified platform of networking, security, and developer services to succeed everywhere in the world.

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A global immune system for your IT environment

Cloudflare services are easy to integrate and manage, cost effective, and available from a single unified interface — helping even the largest and most specialized organizations reduce IT complexity and take back control of their environment. We also offer robust security, performance, and development services for organizations of all sizes — bringing enterprise-grade protection and speed to millions of startups, small businesses, and individual developers.

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SASE and SSE

Connect and secure your employees, contractors, devices, networks, apps, and data everywhere they live. Deliver Internet-native Zero Trust security and simplify your journey to unified SSE or SASE.

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Fast app delivery and network infrastructure

Give your digital products and services top-notch security, reliability, and performance for customers everywhere. Reduce risk with built-in threat intelligence drawn from proxying ~20% of the web.

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Full-stack development

Easily build and deploy full-stack applications everywhere, thanks to integrated compute, storage, and networking. Skip time-wasting development steps and improve productivity with services that scale automatically.

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Protect your Internet presence

With Cloudflare, you can set up a domain in less than 5 minutes. Keep your hosting provider. No code changes required.

Protect and accelerate all of your websites, apps, and APIs with unmetered DDoS protection, a global CDN, and more.

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Implement Zero Trust access

With Cloudflare Zero Trust, protecting your global workforce, applications and data does not require any hardware, software, or complicated licensing.

You can start securing the first 50 seats on your team for free.

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Build serverless applications

With Cloudflare Workers, you can deploy serverless code instantly across the globe to give it exceptional performance, reliability, and scale.

You can deploy up to 30 Worker scripts and 100,000 requests per day for free.

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Learn about Cloudflare’s Enterprise plan

Does your organization demand advanced tools, support, and reporting? With Cloudflare’s enterprise-tier plan, you get access to enterprise-grade security and performance, guaranteed reliability and uptime SLAs, and exclusive access to premium products, features, and 24/7/365 support.

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ANALYST RECOGNITION

What top analysts say

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Cloudflare named a Visionary in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms
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Scored 2nd highest in ‘Strategy’ category in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Platforms, Q3 2025
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Cloudflare a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Email, Messaging, and Security Solutions, 2025 Q2
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Trusted by millions of Internet properties

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