This content is currently locked.

Your current McLean & Company subscription does not include access to this content. Contact your account representative to gain access to Premium SoftwareReviews.

Contact Your Representative

Or Call Us:
1-877-281-0480 (US/CAN) or
+1-519-936-2659 (International)

CloudFlare

Cloudflare

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

9.2 /10

66 Reviews Write a Review

What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.

Company Details

Need Assistance?

We're here to help you with understanding our reports and the data inside to help you make decisions.

Get Assistance

Awards & Recognition

Cloudflare won the following awards in the Secure Access Service Edge category

Filter By

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024

2 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Service Experience
Contract Negotiation

2023

2 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2023

Cloudflare Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
Download the entire Product Scorecard to access more information on Cloudflare.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

92 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

{y}

{name}

Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Cloudflare?

3% Negative

4% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Trustworthy
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Effective Service

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Enablement for Security Teams

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)

Network Sandboxes

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)

Secure Web Gateway (SWG)

Zero Trust

Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)

SD-WAN

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS

Data Analytics / BI / AI

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Also Featured in...

Security Service Edge

Translation missing: en.product_page.ratings.score 8.8

View Cloudflare in this category (opens in a new tab)

Cloudflare Reviews

Dhruv P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2023

well-developed and the story is engaging

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?

Cloudflare stands out from other similar products because it offers a comprehensive suite of services that are designed to help businesses protect and improve their online presence. This includes a global network of data centers, a powerful web application firewall, DDoS protection, and advanced caching and performance optimization.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Cloudflare Has Some Mega Servers Which Cache Your Static Assets For You, Once They Have Been Requested Once. This Has A Huge Benefit Of Saving Your Server Load And Bandwidth. With A Non-cloudflare’d Server, If A User Requests A Web Page Which Features 10 Images, The Browser Has To Make 10 Additional Requests To Your Server.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Honestly, the errors you are describing are related to the management of the service. Cloudflare is not a managed service unless you are an enterprise consumer.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Cloudflare CDN helps to load my website faster and securable in all countries which helps my visitors stay connected. I can also analyze my website's traffic, performance and security.

Pros

Over Delivered
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable

Cons

Less Fair
Less Transparent
Charges for Enhancements

Sandeep V.

Role: Vendor Management
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Cloudflare customer review

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?

We had a great experience working with cloudflare as it supports us drastically improve the website for us. Using this tool we have been able to deliver a better customer experience and optimize the website engagement

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Cloudflare is an integral part of the global web footprint and it is low in both cost and the effort, it provides CDN which is a global content delivery network with exceptional performance

What do you dislike most about this product?

It is not easy to use and usage data was not good

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Even free users can have access to many advanced features on the cloudflare

Pros

Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Effective Service
Respectful

Sumit P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Good product

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?

Cloudflare provides unique template to deploy on the server

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It will give access to a wide range of metrics, collected at the website or domain level

What do you dislike most about this product?

Upselling attempts by the sale teams, usage consumption not visible to end customer.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It will be good to handle in website and all about which i experienced with this product

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

How We Deliver

Cloudflare

What is Cloudflare?

Company Details

Need Assistance?

Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

Cloudflare Ratings

92 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Cloudflare?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Enablement for Security Teams Enablement for Security to know the layers of protection deployed and not just rely on the carrier to only provide the connection.

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) Next-generation firewall capabilities that include web filtering, advanced threat protection, intrusion prevention system, and Domain Name System security.

Network Sandboxes Sandboxes are used to safely execute suspicious code without risking harm to the host device or network.

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) Provides protective capabilities that leverage effective web request inspection prior to reaching the API such as Next-Gen WAF, RASP, DDoS etc.

Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Protects corporate users and networks from web-based malware, controls employee behavior on the Internet, and helps prevent data loss.

Zero Trust Provides features that enable a zero trust architecture, including device authentication and user contextual risk based authentication.

Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) Separate your users' web browsing activity from the local network and its infrastructure, preventing browser-based attacks on the network.

SD-WAN Separates the data and control plane from its hardware, virtualizing the network.

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) Intermediary between an organization's users and one or more cloud services, allowing the enforcement of certain types of security policies in the cloud.

Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS Organizations may want to migrate away from traditional MPLS and leverage a platform to provision convergence and flexibility regarding deployment of security.

Data Analytics / BI / AI Integration of capability to mine data from incoming sources (SIEM, logs, vulnerability tools, threat databases, etc) in real-time and apply rules.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Also Featured in...

Security Service Edge

Cloudflare Reviews

Dhruv P.

well-developed and the story is engaging

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Sandeep V.

Cloudflare customer review

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sumit P.

Good product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Most Popular Cloudflare Comparisons

Cisco Umbrella

adam:ONE

Aruba EdgeConnect

Fortinet FortiSASE

VMware SASE

Prisma Access

Title

1
Since last award

1
Since last award

Feature Ratings

Enablement for Security Teams

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)

Network Sandboxes

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)

Secure Web Gateway (SWG)

Zero Trust

Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)

SD-WAN

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS

Data Analytics / BI / AI

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support