Cloudflare CDN
A global, enterprise-grade content delivery network (CDN)
Backed by 330 locations worldwide, our CDN optimizes static and dynamic content for device, browser, and bandwidth needs.
Benefits of Cloudflare CDN
Massive scale
Our CDN supports global content delivery with a network that spans over 330 locations.
Lower bandwidth and egress costs
Our CDN helps reduce your hosting fees by reducing requests to your origin server and minimizing bandwidth usage.
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.
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
IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Edge Delivery Services 2024 Vendor Assessment
Cloudflare named a 'Leader' in 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Edge Delivery Services.
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
Modernize applications
Develop and serve applications at the edge of our network to ensure better reliability and performance, even during unexpected traffic surges.
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
PRICING
Upgrade your website security and performance with a free CDN and so much more
Free
$0
forever
Add-ons billed monthly
For personal or hobby projects that aren’t business-critical.
Pro
$20
per month (paid annually)
When billed annually or $25/mo if billed monthly
For professional websites that aren't business-critical.
Business
$200
per month (paid annually)
When billed annually or $250/mo if billed monthly
For small businesses operating online.
Contract
Custom
Billed annually
For mission-critical applications that are core to your business.
New Externa packages available
Free
Pro
Business
Contract
Free
Pro
Business
Contract
CDN
Our 330 data centers located across the globe provide visitors with location-based access to your website, while removing latency and improving performance.
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
Cloudflare DDoS protection secures websites and applications while ensuring the performance of legitimate traffic is not compromised.
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 per the needs of the user while legitimate requests are routed to the destination, whether it lives on-premises or in the cloud.
Lossless Image Optimization
Polish applies "lossless" or optional "lossy" image optimization to reduce your image sizes by 35% on average.
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.
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.
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.
Resources
Insight
How the Cloudflare CDN works
Understand traditional challenges customers face with web applications and how our CDN significantly improves content delivery and performance.
Solution brief
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.
Article
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.
Cloudflare CDN FAQs
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