Cloudflare Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9 out of 10

Score

9 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Cloudflare are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

DNS Management: Users have consistently found Cloudflare's DNS management to be extremely user-friendly, describing it as effortless to set up and quick to propagate across their networks. This feature has significantly streamlined their processes and increased operational efficiency.

Web Application Firewall: Many reviewers have praised the effectiveness of Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall in safeguarding their websites against common web attacks. They appreciate the proactive protection it offers, including active defense mechanisms that enhance overall security measures.

Integration with AI Frameworks: Customers highly value Cloudflare's integration with popular AI frameworks and APIs for simplifying AI development tasks. By facilitating the creation of fast, private, and scalable AI applications in the cloud, this feature has proven instrumental in driving innovation and streamlining workflows.

Reviews

186 Reviews

Cost effective and easy to deploy - Cloudflare SSE

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 14, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cloudflare is used in our company for SSE and ZTNA, our users experience the same protection no matter where they are located. They get access easily to internal resources without the need for a VPN.

Pros

Easy to setup
Reporting is great
Local POP in New Zealand
Breadth of products

Cons

More extensive reporting

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudflare can scale up and down, many other SASE products don't work for smaller companies due to cost and effort to setup. Having Cloudflare free for small businesses is fantastic

Steve Smith

Regional Manager in Sales at Advantage (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Great system for all techs

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 28, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It’s really good from a SEO point of view as you have more options for log file analysts with adding proxy’s as opposed to cms such as hubspot software.

Pros

Technical elements of SEO
Great visual dashboard
Great CS

Cons

It’s a bit infer in terms of visuals but do the job

Likelihood to Recommend

I think it is good for users that already know what they are doing. People need a technical background but that’s fine as it is usually the case anyway. Could be more user friendly

Verified User

Manager in Marketing (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Cloudflare secure and connects you anywhere

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cloudflare gives us peace of mind knowing that our application are protected by security products from Cloudflare that is prove by hundreds of organizations.

Pros

Threat protection from Cloudflare is second to none because of the vast ecosystem Cloudflare is running. Cloudflare handles billions of internet traffic therefore you can rely on the intelligence it gathers.

Cons

Probably they can deploy their solution to emerging markets so it's accessible to the countries.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudflare is well suited for large enterprise with many critical applications on the internet that needs to be protected 24x7 to ensure clients/users experience are optimal and gets %99.9999 of uptime.

James Russel

System Admin in Information Technology at JRM (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

An essential for me

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For the main use case, we use Cloudflare as our DNS manager and main proxy for the most important domains and subdomains.

For secondary cases we use it to build reverse proxies for some "embedded" apps and to handle specific use cases like sitemap generation, connecting to GEO monitors and others

Pros

DNS Management
DDoS prevention
Low latency implementations

Cons

Interacting with logs usually requires setting up an extraction, doing simple queries on them could be out-of-the-box
AI crawlers/bots monitoring can also use a better UX and allow for better drill downs
It could have better tutorials for things like storage and workers

Likelihood to Recommend

Being a proxy for APIs subdomains or main sites because it helps a lot preventing DDoS attacks or quickly banning/blocking potentially dangerous requests. It's a really helpful and quick tool to stop possible attacks

Using their workers product helps a lot when building quick prototypes of adding data to incoming requests or building small sites

Mixer Gutierrez

Growth Engineer in Engineering at La Haus (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Cloudflare - the one stop shop for all your content delivery dreams

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

From the very first website that we put out in production to the websites we build to this day, Cloudflare has been the backbone that we have been able to build on and scale. We have been able to use the service to secure our customers' websites while also providing them extremely quick load times that often result in better conversion. The services we most use are their DNS, the firewall and the ARGO tunnel.

Pros

Provides an extremely robust DNS service
A great caching CDN in the non-traditional sense
A powerful and effective firewall that keeps all bad actors at bay

Cons

The company could lower onboarding prices
A more modern UI (in line with Android's Material Design) would help
Simpler interface instead of never ending menus

Likelihood to Recommend

I started using the free plan with Cloudflare about 9 years ago. Over the years I have hosted multiple websites and upgraded to the paid plan on quite a few of those websites because of their robust network that blocks/eliminates all spam. Never has it been easier to just plug in and let a great service do the work for you.Cloudflare also provides a great many sets of rules that we can use to customize and shape our traffic for increased protection from malicious traffic that always eats up precious bandwidth. With Cloudflare spreading out defense all over the world, we do not have to worry about our servers going doing in case of an attack. In testing, it increases our traffic capability by 102x while only spending 1.2x the cost, which for us is a game-changer; not having to worry about increasing costs while maintaining optimum performance.

Verified User

Director in Social Media (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Cloudflare security and speed

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 14, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cloudflare for it's security and performance measures. Cloudflare's security features help keep our sites secure and see where the security events are happening. Cloudflare's caching help us greatly increase the speed of our sites, and gives us the customization options that we need to keep things running smoothly.

Pros

Security
Caching
Analytics and log tracking

Cons

Customer service reply time
Billing options
Page speed testing

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudflare works well as security measure that gives peace of mind without needing to work too hard to get it functioning well. It provides great tools to customize the security experience as well. This is all the same for the caching tools as well. They have a lot of built in tools that make using the caching easy right out of the box, but they provide the customization options to get things just right for your site.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

As good as advertised

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 14, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as our main public DNS host. We have several public facing services, hundreds of domains, and they all are hosted here.

Pros

Fast
Secure
Trusted

Cons

Clarity in pricing
More control over the human check

Likelihood to Recommend

It does a great job in the few aspects we are using it for currently. We feel safer having it handle our DNS records, and moving everything over was easy. Getting reports on traffic and malicious attempts at attacking our web presence is also really cool to see. I can't think of any reason to not use them considering how each product is separated out to suit your business needs, and the free tier is great if you only need some basics.

Kristofer Masker

Systems Administrator in Information Technology at CemenTech (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Cloudflare is a rocket in the field of web security and speed

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cloudflare to mitigate risk, as a DNS provider, domain registrar and a Content Delivery Network. Those are the main services that we see no competitor offering compared to Cloudflare, their service is top of the line. All 200+ websites we maintain run through their DNS and other services.

Pros

DNS checking upon transfers, easy DNS setup
The best in class DNS config menu
Risk mitigation and DDOS protection
Cheap registrar for global TLD's

Cons

Login speed – they use their own security during login, but I know for a fact that those can be implemented in a way that let's customers log in faster thay they do it themselves
Sometimes I cannot find the DNS section in the menu, there are two similar views which get confused
More country-level TLD's could be available

Likelihood to Recommend

It's best for DNS settings, management, config, resolution. Speedy, easy to use and understand dashboard. Fast changes. Magic DNS. All the bells and whistles. Literally you cannot find any better service. Cloudflare is the boss. Cheap domains from a secure source, always working service. CDN that is free and very easy to use.

Michał Kuczek

Programmer in Engineering at Product Dojo (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

Growing Stack of Performant and Affordable Developer Tools

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 8, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cloudflare's services for domain name registration, DNS management, caching, DDOS protection, object storage, and live streaming. Cloudflare helps protect our business applications and platforms from attacks or even just general negligence of users. Their object storage and domain name registration are extremely affordable - and we are in the process of migrating to both.

Pros

Domain Name Registration
DNS Management
Object Storage

Cons

Domain name registration could allow for different nameservers
Object storage could have a web ui for applying bucket and object policies
Object storage doesn't seem to allow for private buckets to have individual public objects

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudflare is the most affordable domain name registration platform available. Recently i renewed a group of domains for around 30% less than they would have been at my previous registrar.

The DNS management is great as well. The caching helps on sites where you know the client will upload large images or not manage the site in a way that is performant.

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Cloudflare - Nothing like it Not even close.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Website Security and Performance: Organizations often use Cloudflare to improve the security, performance, and reliability of their websites, applications, and APIs. Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy between the user and the web server, masking the origin server's IP address.Content Delivery Network (CDN): Cloudflare's CDN enables organizations to deliver website content faster to users worldwide. Caching static content on servers closer to the user reduces latency, improves page load times, and enhances user experience.

Pros

Security
Quick
Easy to use.

Cons

DDOS attacks.
SPF flattening.
Best practices.

Likelihood to Recommend

Zero Trust Security: Cloudflare One, a SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform, helps organizations implement Zero Trust security models. This secures how users connect to applications and the internet, with identity-based security controls delivered close to the user. Protecting Internal Infrastructure: Cloudflare offers solutions like Cloudflare One to secure internal networks and devices, providing capabilities like secure web gateways, cloud access security brokers, and data loss prevention.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

11 years of experience

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