What Cloudflare does

Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) is a public web infrastructure and cybersecurity company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, operating a single proprietary anycast network spanning 335+ cities that reaches 95% of the world's Internet-connected population within 50ms. The platform sits in front of approximately 20% of all HTTP traffic and powers 42% of the Fortune 500, with operational scale evidenced by 234B daily cyber threats blocked. Products are sold in three integrated layers: Application Services (CDN, DNS, WAF, API Shield, DDoS Protection, Bot Management, Turnstile, Magic Transit), Cloudflare One SASE/Zero Trust (Access, Secure Web Gateway, DLP, Browser Isolation, Magic WAN, Email Security via the acquired Area 1), and a Developer Platform (Cloudflare Workers, Workers AI serving 70+ models, R2, D1, KV, Durable Objects, AI Gateway, Vectorize, AI Search, plus the VoidZero/Vite toolchain following the June 2026 acquisition).\n\nCloudflare makes money through a hybrid model: (i) tiered subscriptions (Free, Pro at $20/mo, Business at $200/mo, custom Enterprise contracts) for application services; (ii) per-seat SASE pricing ($7/user/month with the first 50 users free); and (iii) usage-based developer platform billing starting at $5/month. Distribution is a hybrid of self-serve PLG through the cloudflare.com storefront, direct enterprise field sales, the PowerUP Partner Program, and global system integrators. The company is a recognized leader in Forrester Wave WAF 2025 and is referenced by major media and Gartner as an authority on Internet traffic via Cloudflare Radar.\n\nThe business is at an inflection point: TTM revenue reached $2.33B at ~31.5% growth with FY2026 guidance of $2.81B (29.6% growth), but the company executed a ~20% workforce reduction in May 2026 explicitly tied to an AI-driven strategic shift. Recent moves include the acquisitions of Replicate (AI model deployment, Nov 2025), VoidZero/Vite (June 2026), and Ensemble AI talent (June 2026), the launch of Cloudflare Agents and Temporary Accounts for AI agents, the Cloudflare One Design Partner Program, and positioning as a foundational infrastructure layer for the agentic internet through partnerships with Anthropic, OpenAI, Mastercard (AP4M), Stripe, Coinbase (x402), and Okta. Post-quantum cryptography leadership (2029 PQC migration) and PACT (with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Shopify) extend the moat into emerging standards.

Name

Cloudflare

Legal name

Cloudflare, Inc.

Website

https://cloudflare.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Cloudflare operates a single global anycast network in 335+ cities that delivers application security, SASE/Zero Trust, serverless compute, and AI inference to ~20% of the Internet and 42% of the Fortune 500, monetized via subscriptions, per-seat SASE, and usage-based developer pricing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Network Security and Edge Infrastructure

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Cloud Networking Core Services (VPC/VNet, Load Balancing, DNS, NAT) (HDABAAAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cloud Managed Services (Operations, Monitoring, Patching) (BPAEACAF), Cloud-Native Application Development (Containers/Kubernetes/Serverless) (BPAEAFAE), Cloud Operations Outsourcing (Cloud Managed Operations) (BPAEAMAC), Compute Resource Management & Scheduling (Cluster/Workload Managers) (HDABADAK)

Keywords

• Network security services
• Cloud infrastructure platform
• Edge compute services
• SASE Zero Trust
• Content delivery network

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices19 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription Contracts (Application Services & SASE): Recurring annual subscriptions for Pro ($20/mo), Business ($200/mo), and Enterprise tiers, billed annually in advance for application services (CDN, DDoS, WAF, Bot Management) and Cloudflare One SASE ($7/user/month after first 50 free). Enterprise contracts billed annually with multi-year options.
2. Usage-based Developer Platform Billing: Pay-as-you-go consumption pricing for Workers, Workers AI, R2, D1, KV, Vectorize, Queues, Hyperdrive — billed per request, CPU ms, GB-second, GB-month, and rows read/written. Starts at $5/month Paid tier.
3. Freemium (Free tier): Free tier with unmetered DDoS, Universal SSL, Global CDN, and first 50 SASE users at no cost, designed to convert to paid Pro/Business/Enterprise plans.
4. Channel / Partner Resale: Sales via authorized resellers and service providers (e.g., Arctiq, Presidio, Softcell, The Missing Link) under reseller agreements, plus Technology Partner integrations and GSI relationships.
5. Domain Registration & Registrar Services: Cloudflare Registrar (ICANN-accredited) — domain name registration and management fees, plus 1.1.1.1 free public DNS resolver service.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels14 records

Core offering

Cloudflare operates a global connectivity cloud platform built on a proprietary anycast network spanning 335+ cities, delivering integrated networking, security (DDoS mitigation, WAF, bot management, Zero Trust SASE), and serverless compute services (Workers, Workers AI, R2, D1) to businesses of all sizes. The company monetizes this platform through subscription plans (Pro, Business, Enterprise, Cloudflare One SASE) and usage-based developer billing, serving approximately 20% of all HTTP traffic and 42% of the Fortune 500.

Product overview

Cloudflare operates a single, unified Connectivity Cloud platform (one network in 335+ cities running security, networking, and compute together) on top of which it sells a portfolio of tightly integrated products and acquired brands. The application-services layer combines the CDN, DNS, WAF, API Shield, DDoS Protection, Bot Management, Rate Limiting, Turnstile, Page Shield, SSL, Load Balancing, and Argo Smart Routing. The Cloudflare One SASE/Zero Trust layer unifies Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway, DLP, Browser Isolation, Magic WAN, and the acquired Area 1 Email Security under one control plane. The Developer Platform layer centers on Cloudflare Workers, Workers AI, AI Gateway, Agents, Vectorize, AI Search, Durable Objects, Containers, Sandboxes, Workflows, Workers for Platforms, Browser Rendering, D1, R2, KV, Hyperdrive, Queues, the Data Platform, and the just-acquired VoidZero (Vite/Vitest/Rolldown/Oxc) toolchain. Network and observability products include Cloudflare Radar, Cloudflare Analytics, Workers Observability, Cloudflare Network Firewall, Magic Transit, TURN/SFU/Realtime, Cloudflare Stream, and Cloudflare Images. Public-interest offerings (Project Galileo, Athenian Project, Cloudflare for Campaigns, Project Fair Shot) and consumer products (WARP, 1.1.1.1, Tunnel) round out the portfolio, with recent acquisitions (Replicate for AI model deployment, Kivera for cloud security, PartyKit, Zaraz, and VoidZero) integrated into the same global network, dashboard, and billing plane.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Cloudflare One: Cloudflare's unified SASE and Zero Trust security platform combining networking, security, and identity services.
• Cloudflare Radar
• Cloudflare Workers

Products and services

• Cloudflare One (SASE) Unified SASE/Zero Trust platform combining ZTNA, Secure Web Gateway, CASB/DLP, Browser Isolation, WAN, and Email Security for enterprise workforce security; first 50 users free, then $7 per active user per month.
• Cloudflare Workers Global serverless compute platform for deploying code across 335+ cities with no cold starts, billed by CPU time rather than wall-clock time.
• Workers AI Edge AI inference platform running ML models (text, image, audio, code, multimodal) on Cloudflare's serverless GPUs, integrated with AI Gateway.
• Cloudflare Agents Product for building stateful, multi-step AI agents on Workers with orchestration primitives, code mode MCP server, and Temporary Accounts.
• AI Gateway Observability and control layer for AI applications providing caching, rate-limiting, analytics, and policy enforcement for traffic to model providers.
• Cloudflare R2 Egress-free object storage for large amounts of unstructured data without expensive data-egress fees.
• Cloudflare D1 Serverless SQL database built on SQLite for creating relational databases at the edge.
• Workers KV Ultra-fast serverless key-value store replicated globally for low-latency reads from Workers.
• Cloudflare WAF Web Application Firewall with managed rules continuously updated to stop emerging vulnerabilities before patch cycles; named Leader in Forrester Wave for WAF 2025.
• Cloudflare DDoS Protection Always-on Layer 7 DDoS protection with anycast absorption and auto-mitigation in seconds, with no manual tuning required.
• Magic Transit Layer 3/4 DDoS protection and firewall-as-a-service for entire IP-prefix networks, delivered from Cloudflare's global edge.
• Cloudflare Bot Management ML-driven bot management that scores requests in milliseconds, blocks automated abuse, and offers challenge-less Turnstile for legitimate users.
• API Shield API security product combining schema validation, mTLS, and sequence mitigation to protect REST and GraphQL endpoints without requiring an SDK.
• Cloudflare Turnstile Privacy-preserving CAPTCHA replacement using browser Signals (TLS fingerprint, User-Agent, Sitekey) and ML heuristics to challenge bots without user friction.
• Cloudflare CDN Global content delivery network with intelligent caching, image optimization, and HTTP/3 transport for fast page loads.
• Cloudflare DNS Authoritative and recursive DNS service, including the free 1.1.1.1 public resolver and 1.1.1.1 for Families.
• Cloudflare Access (ZTNA) Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) that identity-aware proxies internal applications, replacing legacy VPNs with identity- and device-posture-based access.
• Cloudflare Gateway (Secure Web Gateway) Secure Web Gateway providing DNS filtering, HTTP inspection, and inline security for users browsing the web.
• Cloudflare WAN (Magic WAN) Cloud-delivered enterprise networking that connects branches, data centers, and clouds over Cloudflare's global backbone as an SD-WAN replacement.
• Email Security (Area 1) AI-driven email protection that pre-empts phishing, BEC, and malware by analyzing email before it reaches the inbox, based on acquired Area 1 Security technology.
• Cloudflare DLP (Data Loss Prevention) Inline data-loss prevention that detects and blocks sensitive data (PII, financial, source code) leaving the organization.
• Browser Isolation Remote browser isolation that streams a safe rendering of web pages to protect users and endpoints from zero-day browser exploits.
• Cloudflare SSL Free, auto-renewed TLS certificates (Universal SSL) and HTTP/3 support for every Cloudflare-protected site.
• Load Balancing Global load balancer that health-checks origin pools and routes traffic away from failed data centers for zero-downtime failover.
• Durable Objects Stateful compute primitive giving each object its own single-threaded coordinator, used to build real-time collaborative apps, chat, multiplayer, and agent state.
• Cloudflare Containers Containerized compute that lets developers run any language, anywhere on Cloudflare's edge network, alongside Workers and Durable Objects.
• Cloudflare WARP Consumer application that secures and speeds up internet traffic by routing it through Cloudflare's network, paired with the 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver.
• Cloudflare Tunnel Outbound-only tunnel (cloudflared) that exposes internal services to the internet without public IPs or port forwarding, used for Zero Trust connectivity.
• Cloudflare Registrar ICANN-accredited domain registrar offering at-cost domain registration tightly integrated with Cloudflare DNS and security.
• Cloudflare Pages JAMstack-style static and dynamic site hosting with Git integration and Workers-backed Functions.
• Cloudflare Radar Public internet-traffic and security-trends dashboard publishing insights on DDoS, outages, adoption, and bot traffic using data from Cloudflare's network.
• Cloudforce One Cloudflare's threat-research and operations team delivering threat intelligence, custom research, and incident response to enterprise customers.
• Cloudflare Spectrum Reverse-proxy product that brings Cloudflare protection and routing to arbitrary TCP/UDP applications beyond HTTP.
• Cloudflare Images Image transformation and optimization product that resizes, converts, and optimizes images on demand from Cloudflare's edge.
• Cloudflare Realtime Realtime audio/video application infrastructure (TURN/SFU) for sub-second latency conferencing, livestreaming, and interactive media.
• Cloudflare Stream Video hosting, encoding, and playback product for on-demand video delivery with built-in analytics.
• Cloudflare Workflows Durable, orchestrated process automation service for chaining Workers, APIs, and human-in-the-loop steps into long-running reliable workflows.
• Page Shield Client-side protection that detects Magecart-style script tampering before customer card data is exfiltrated.
• Rate Limiting Abuse-prevention product with granular per-path policies that block floods without hurting legitimate users.
• Vectorize Managed vector database for generating, storing, and querying embeddings to power semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation workloads on Workers AI.
• AI Search Instant retrieval product that combines Workers AI inference, Vectorize, and Cloudflare's storage to deliver low-latency, accurate AI-powered search.
• Cloudflare Analytics Web performance and security analytics with dashboards for traffic patterns, cache-hit rates, threat detection, and OpenTelemetry-compliant log/trace export.
• Cloudflare Sandboxes Secure code-execution environment for running untrusted or agent-generated code in isolation on Cloudflare's network.

Named customers45 records

Segments12 records

Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration15 records

AI capability18 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

45 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• GoDaddyflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026Cloudflare is a backer (alongside Cisco, Salesforce, Infoblox) of the Linux Foundation's Agent Name Service (ANS), an open-source identity framework for AI agents originally developed by GoDaddy, leveraging DNS infrastructure to verify AI agent identity, permissions, and operational safety.
• CiscoflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026Cloudflare and Cisco jointly back the Linux Foundation's Agent Name Service (ANS) for AI-agent identity verification via DNS; also joint partners in the Chainguard Athena coalition for open-source vulnerability remediation.
• SalesforceflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026Cloudflare and Salesforce are industry backers of the Linux Foundation's Agent Name Service (ANS) for AI-agent identity.
• InfobloxflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026Cloudflare and Infoblox are industry backers of the Linux Foundation's Agent Name Service (ANS) for AI-agent identity verification.
• SubcocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026Cloudflare is a foundational customer of Subco's SMAP (Sydney-Melbourne-Adelaide-Perth) submarine cable system delivering 400+ Tbit/s across 16 fiber pairs.
• AnthropicflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 June 2026Cloudflare was among ~50 partners given restricted access to Anthropic's Mythos-class AI model and used it to discover 2,000 bugs (incl. 400 high/critical). Also broader Claude Managed Agents collaboration via Cloudflare Environments.
• CoinbaseflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 June 2026Coinbase and Cloudflare have deployed x402 protocol in production for AI-agent payment rails; Coinbase is also a partner in Mastercard's AP4M program alongside Cloudflare.
• Mozilla / Google / Microsoft / Shopify (PACT consortium)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 June 2026Cloudflare, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify jointly presented PACT — a protocol using anonymous tokens to replace CAPTCHAs, addressing the milestone where bots now account for 58% of global web traffic.
• beehiivcoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 23 June 2026Cloudflare and beehiiv launched an integration that gives newsletter publishers a dashboard toggle to block/allow AI crawlers accessing their content, built on Cloudflare's APIs and advancing the Pay Per Crawl marketplace model.
• OktaflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 June 2026Cloudflare is an early adopter of Okta's Cross App Access framework — an OAuth extension now an official authorization extension for the Model Context Protocol — for AI-agent identity controls.
• OpenAIflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 June 2026Cloudflare is among the launch partners (alongside Cisco, CrowdStrike, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, Accenture, KPMG, PwC) in OpenAI's Daybreak Cyber Partner Program for GPT-5.5-Cyber and Codex Security.
• CiscoflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 June 2026Cisco is a launch partner alongside Cloudflare in OpenAI's Daybreak Cyber Partner Program (covering Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, SentinelOne, Wiz, Zscaler, Akamai, Accenture, KPMG, PwC, HackerOne, Trail of Bits).
• MozillaflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2026Cloudflare is co-developing PACT (Private Access Control Tokens) with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Shopify to replace CAPTCHAs with privacy-preserving tokens. Post-quantum cryptography work also ongoing with Google.
• GoogleflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2026Cloudflare is co-developing PACT (Private Access Control Tokens) with Google Chrome and has joined Google's post-quantum cryptography initiative (2029 migration target). Cloudflare is also a launch partner for Okta Cross App Access.
• MicrosoftflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2026Cloudflare is co-developing PACT (Private Access Control Tokens) with Microsoft Edge; Cloudflare and Microsoft also collaborate in the Chainguard Athena coalition and OpenAI Daybreak Partner Program.
• ShopifyflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2026Cloudflare customer (Shopify quoted on homepage) and co-developer of PACT alongside Mozilla, Google, Microsoft. Also a Cloudflare customer via Duncan Davidson, VP of Developer Productivity.
• OpenAI / Trail of Bits (Patch the Planet initiative)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2026Cloudflare joined OpenAI's Patch the Planet initiative alongside Trail of Bits to secure critical open-source projects (cURL, Go, Python, Sigstore), addressing the fact that 94% of widely-used open-source projects are maintained by fewer than ten developers.
• ArctiqcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 18 June 2026Arctiq is one of five inaugural Cloudflare One Design Partners (alongside Consortium, CMT, Presidio, Softcell, The Missing Link) — receives deep technical expertise, financial resources and access to Cloudflare One Stack framework for SASE/AI migrations.
• ConsortiumcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 18 June 2026Consortium is an inaugural Cloudflare One Design Partner for SASE and AI security migrations; receives technical enablement and access to Cloudflare One Stack.
• CMTcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 18 June 2026CMT is an inaugural Cloudflare One Design Partner for SASE and AI security deployments; receives Cloudflare One Stack framework access.
• PresidiocoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 18 June 2026Presidio is an inaugural Cloudflare One Design Partner; reported that the relationship has driven significant growth over the past two years aligned with customer needs around AI security, platform consolidation and data governance.
• SoftcellcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 18 June 2026Softcell is an inaugural Cloudflare One Design Partner for SASE and AI security migrations in select global markets.
• The Missing LinkcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 18 June 2026The Missing Link is an inaugural Cloudflare One Design Partner for SASE and AI security deployments; receives access to Cloudflare One Stack framework.
• ExperianflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026Experian partnered with Visa, Cloudflare and Skyfire to develop the Experian Agent Trust — enabling secure agentic payments within the Ascend platform.
• Ensemble AIcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026Key members of Ensemble AI (SF-based AI startup founded 2023, model compression and efficient inference including NdLinear/NdLinear-LoRA) joined Cloudflare to accelerate AI infrastructure work and Workers AI serverless GPU platform.
• Cloudflare One Design Partner Designation — Cloudflare PowerUP ProgramcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 17 June 2026Cloudflare's PowerUP Partner Program with the new Design Partner Designation provides participating partners (Arctiq, Consortium, CMT, Presidio, The Missing Link) with expanded technical enablement, funded headcount, MDF incentives, and roadmap access for SASE/AI deployments.
• Cloudforce One (Cloudflare's threat-research team)coreOthers · 17 June 2026Cloudforce One is Cloudflare's own threat research and operations team — publishes reports on nation-state attacks, vulnerabilities, and botnets; referenced as a brand in /cloudforce-one/.
• CIO 100 Awards 2026 sponsor ecosystem (PwC, KPMG, IBM, HPE, Celonis, Unisys, Zoho, Moveworks)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 17 June 2026Cloudflare is a sponsor/participant of the CIO 100 Awards & Conference (Aug 17–19, 2025 at Omni PGA resort, Frisco TX) alongside PwC, KPMG, IBM, HPE, Celonis, Unisys, Zoho, Moveworks and others.
• Ping IdentitycoreTechnology or Integration · 16 June 2026Ping Identity extended its Runtime Identity capabilities through integrations with AWS, Google Cloud, and Cloudflare to enforce AI-agent identity, authorization and policy at cloud and edge.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)flagshipTechnology or Integration · 16 June 2026AWS integrated with Ping Identity's Runtime Identity alongside Google Cloud and Cloudflare for AI-agent governance at the edge. Cloudflare also partners with Stripe and Coinbase on the x402 payment protocol.
• Google CloudflagshipTechnology or Integration · 16 June 2026Google Cloud integrated with Ping Identity's Runtime Identity alongside AWS and Cloudflare for AI-agent identity governance at cloud and edge.
• ChainguardflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 June 2026Cloudflare is a founding member of Chainguard's Athena coalition (with BNY, Cisco, Corridor, DepthFirst, Docker, JPMorganChase, Kyndryl, LTIMindtree, PwC) — 20,000+ findings processed, 2,000 patches shipped across 500 open-source projects.
• JPMorgan ChaseflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 June 2026Cloudflare is a founding member of the Chainguard Athena coalition alongside JPMorgan Chase and other financial/tech firms to fix open-source vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.
• StripeflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 June 2026Stripe launched the 'Projects' protocol with Cloudflare (plus Vercel and Netlify) as launch partners — enables AI agents to autonomously create cloud accounts, select plans, and provision infrastructure with a default $100/provider spending cap.
• VercelflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 June 2026Vercel is a launch partner of Stripe's 'Projects' protocol alongside Cloudflare and Netlify — enables AI agents to autonomously provision cloud infrastructure.
• NetlifyflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 June 2026Netlify is a launch partner of Stripe's 'Projects' protocol alongside Cloudflare and Vercel — enables AI agents to autonomously provision cloud infrastructure.
• MastercardflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 June 2026Cloudflare is a launch partner in Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) for AI-agent payments and stablecoin/card settlement; Mastercard also partnered with Visa/Cloudflare on post-quantum cryptography.
• VisaflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 June 2026Cloudflare and Visa are jointly working on post-quantum cryptography (PQC migration by 2029); Visa is also a Cloudflare customer logo.
• VoidZero (Evan You)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 June 2026Cloudflare acquired VoidZero (the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc) for an undisclosed amount; committing $1M to a Vite ecosystem fund; team joins Cloudflare's Emerging Technology and Incubation org; all tools remain open-source under MIT.
• WP EnginecoreTechnology or Integration · 4 June 2026WP Engine expanded its Global Edge Security (GES) with bot management features powered by Cloudflare's infrastructure, including customizable traffic categorization and Instant Lockdown mode for active attacks.
• ReplicateflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 November 2025Cloudflare announced its agreement to acquire Replicate (a platform that simplifies AI model deployment with 50,000+ models including GPT-5.1); to be integrated into Cloudflare Workers to make it a leading platform for AI applications.
• KiveracoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 October 2024Cloudflare acquired Kivera (cloud security, data protection, compliance platform) for an undisclosed amount; integrated to enhance Cloudflare's SASE platform with preventive cloud security and shadow cloud reduction.
• PartyKitcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 April 2024Cloudflare acquired PartyKit (collaborative/multiplayer app platform) within a recent two-month period for an undisclosed amount.
• Area 1 SecurityflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 February 2022Cloudflare acquired Area 1 Security (phishing protection, email security) for approximately $162 million; deal closed in Q2 2022; integrated into Cloudflare's Zero Trust platform.
• ZarazcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 December 2021Cloudflare acquired Zaraz (Israeli startup specializing in website speed and privacy via third-party script management); deal terms undisclosed; integrated as standalone product leveraging Cloudflare's serverless technology.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Akamai Technologies: Akamai is Cloudflare's closest direct competitor, operating the world's largest CDN with comparable DDoS, WAF, bot management, and edge compute offerings (Linode/MPulse/Gecko) and selling into the same enterprise security and performance buyers.
• Fastly: Fastly is a direct edge-cloud peer competing on CDN, edge compute (Compute@Edge), WAF, and bot management with similar developer-led go-to-market; smaller scale but comparable product surface area to Cloudflare's application services.
• Zscaler: Zscaler is the leading pure-play SASE/Zero Trust peer to Cloudflare One, offering ZIA (SWG), ZPA (ZTNA), ZDX (digital experience), and data protection sold to the same mid-market and enterprise security buyers.
• F5: F5 (post-Shape/NGINX acquisitions) competes with Cloudflare on application delivery, API security, and bot management, particularly in legacy enterprise and financial-services accounts.

Broad incumbents

• Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks' Prisma SASE/Strata firewall portfolio competes head-to-head with Cloudflare One and WAF, while its broader cybersecurity portfolio (Cortex, XSIAM) gives it a broader incumbent positioning against Cloudflare in enterprise deals.
• Amazon Web Services (CloudFront + Shield): AWS CloudFront, Shield, and WAF compete with Cloudflare's CDN, DDoS, and WAF — bundled with the broader AWS cloud and free inter-region egress, representing the largest incumbent threat to Cloudflare's edge business.
• Microsoft Azure (Front Door, Azure CDN): Microsoft Azure Front Door, Azure CDN, and Web Application Firewall compete with Cloudflare's application services and SASE within Microsoft-anchored enterprise and government estates.

Emerging players

• Vercel: Vercel competes with Cloudflare Workers/Pages on edge-hosted frontend and serverless compute for developers, and is a co-launch partner with Cloudflare on Stripe's Projects protocol for AI-agent provisioning.
• Datadog: Datadog competes with Cloudflare Workers Observability and Cloudflare Analytics on logs/metrics/APM and is an Okta Cross App Access partner alongside Cloudflare; overlapping developer-tool buyer base.
• CrowdStrike: CrowdStrike is a fellow OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program launch partner with Cloudflare and overlaps in cloud workload protection, threat intelligence, and SASE-adjacent security sold into the same enterprise base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat8 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cloudflare
• YouTubeyoutube.com/cloudflare
• Facebookfacebook.com/Cloudflare
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cloudflare-inc-
• Instagraminstagram.com/cloudflare

Compliance8 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds9 records

Investors14 records

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M&A20 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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