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Cloudflare CDN

A global, enterprise-grade content delivery network (CDN)

Backed by 335 locations worldwide, our CDN optimizes static and dynamic content for device, browser, and bandwidth needs.

BENEFITS OF THE CLOUDFLARE CDN
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Massive scale

Our CDN supports global content delivery with a network that spans over 335 locations.

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Faster applications and user experience

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.

Lower bandwidth and egress costs

Our CDN helps reduce your hosting fees by reducing requests to your origin server and minimizing bandwidth usage.

HOW IT WORKS

Increase content availability and redundancy

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.

Learn about the three challenges of securing and connecting application services

ANALYST RECOGNITION
2024 GigaOm Radar for CDN

Cloudflare has been recognized as Leader and Outperformer in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for CDN report.

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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Edge Delivery Services 2024 Vendor Assessment

Cloudflare named a 'Leader' in 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Edge Delivery Services.

Analyst report

What our customers are saying

“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

The Cloudflare CDN helps you develop fast, reliable applications while lowering costs and enhancing your user experience

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Modernize applications

Develop and serve applications at the edge of our network to ensure better reliability and performance, even during unexpected traffic surges.

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Improve user experience

Simplify your deployments and infrastructure for better scalability and an optimized user experience.

Lower operational costs

Eliminate hidden costs — like hardware refreshes and egress fees — to reduce your overall TCO.

Trusted by millions of Internet properties


Upgrade your website security and performance with a free CDN & so much more!
Free
For personal or hobby projects that aren’t business-critical.

$0/month
Add-ons billed monthly
Add a Website
Pro
For professional websites that aren't business-critical.

$20/month
When billed annually or $25/mo billed monthly
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Business
For small businesses operating online.

$200/month
When billed annually or $250/mo billed monthly
Get Started
Enterprise
For mission-critical applications that are core to your business.

Custom
Billed annually
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Support Options
Community forums and documentation
Tickets + Community Forums
Tickets + Chat + Community Forums
24x7x365 Tickets + Chat + Phone + Community Forums

CDN
CDN
Our 335 data centers located across the globe provide visitors with location-based access to your website, while removing latency and improving performance.

Universal SSL Certificate
Universal SSL Certificate
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.

Unmetered DDoS Protection
Unmetered DDoS Protection
Cloudflare DDoS protection secures websites and applications while ensuring the performance of legitimate traffic is not compromised.

Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
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 as per the needs of the user while legitimate requests are routed to the destination, agnostic of whether it lives on-premise or in the cloud.

Lossless Image Optimization
Lossless Image Optimization
Polish applies "lossless" or optional "lossy" image optimization to reduce your image sizes by 35% on average.

Image Transformations
Image Transformations
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
5000 per month
5000 per month
5000 per month

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
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.

Uptime SLA
100%
100%

Network Prioritization

Bot Mitigation
Bot Mitigation
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
More advanced bots
Sophisticated bots and basic bot analytics
All bots, anomaly detection, custom CAPTCHAs & threat response, advanced bot analytics, and more

Resources

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How the Cloudflare CDN works

Understand traditional challenges customers face with web applications and how our CDN significantly improves content delivery and performance.

Explore the developer docs
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Migrate to the Cloudflare CDN

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.

Get the solution brief
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Explore the benefits of a CDN

A CDN can drastically improve web and application performance, resiliency, and security — while minimizing bandwidth usage and associated costs.

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