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Our mission is to build a better Internet. We believe every website should have free access to foundational security and performance.

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Unmatched DDoS mitigation

Protect your site with the world’s #1 ranked DDoS mitigation solution. Rest easy knowing Cloudflare’s got your back.

The world’s fastest DNS resolver

Leverage the most private and the world’s fastest DNS resolver: 1.1.1.1 We will never sell your data or use it to target you with ads. Period.

The world’s #1 ranked Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Accelerate your website with our 330 data centers worldwide. We route your traffic to our closest data center ensuring lightning-fast load times.

Free SSL certificate

Secure the transfer of data between you and your website visitors instantly, with a free shared SSL certificate from Cloudflare.

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Free Network Security

Secure, connect, and accelerate your network with our free Zero Trust and network security products

Why is our free plan so good?

At Cloudflare, our mission is to help build a better Internet. We believe the web should be open and free, and that ALL websites and web users, no matter how small, should be safe, secure, and fast. Cloudflare always has and always will offer a generous free plan for many reasons.

We work hard to minimize the cost of running our network so we can offer huge value in our Free plan. On top of this, protecting more sites means we get better data about the types of attacks on our network so we can offer better security and protection for all.

As a privacy-first company, one thing we DON’T do is sell your data. In fact, Cloudflare recognizes privacy in personal data as a fundamental human right and has taken a number of steps to demonstrate our commitment to privacy.

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Load Balancing

Load Balancing safeguards from service disruptions with local and global traffic load balancing, geographic routing, server health checks, and failover, ensuring the continuous availability of your critical resources.

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Argo Smart Routing

Argo is a service that uses optimized routes across the Cloudflare network to deliver responses to your users more quickly, reliably, and securely. Argo includes: Smart Routing and Tiered Caching.

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