Cloudflare

About Cloudflare

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Cloudflare

All products by Cloudflare reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

CloudflareAI DevOps

Global network for security, performance, and developer infrastructure

From $20/mo8.3/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Cloudflare

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Cloudflare's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.7 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Cloudflare competes with, and how they differ.

F

Fastly

Competes directly in CDN and edge compute with a usage-based pricing model, more focused on developer-centric edge compute (Compute@Edge) than Cloudflare's broader security and network product suite.

A

Akamai

Legacy CDN and security vendor targeting large enterprise customers with a heavier professional-services sales model, competing directly on DDoS protection, WAF, and content delivery.

Google Cloud7.8/10

Competes at hyperscale via Cloud CDN, Cloud Armor, and Cloud Run, bundling network/edge services into a broader compute and data-platform suite rather than Cloudflare's standalone network-first approach.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Palo Alto Networks8.2/10

Prisma SASE and Zero Trust offerings compete directly with Cloudflare One, targeting large enterprise security budgets with a broader firewall and security-appliance portfolio versus Cloudflare's network-native, self-serve model.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Vercel7.7/10

Competes for edge-compute developers via Vercel Edge Functions against Cloudflare Workers/Pages; Vercel is frontend-deployment-first (built around Next.js) while Cloudflare is network-infrastructure-first.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Cloudflare's history, with sources.

1. Jun 4, 2026Acquisition

   Acquired VoidZero, maker of the Vite JavaScript toolchain

   Cloudflare acquired VoidZero, the company behind the Vite build tool, Vitest test runner, Rolldown bundler, and Oxc toolchain, to integrate the JavaScript tooling natively into its Workers developer platform.

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2. Jan 16, 2026Acquisition

   Acquired The Astro Technology Company

   Cloudflare acquired the team behind the open-source Astro web framework, bringing its full-time employees in-house while keeping Astro MIT-licensed and platform-agnostic.

   cybersecuritynews.com
3. Feb 23, 2022Acquisition

   Agreed to acquire Area 1 Security for ~$162M

   Cloudflare announced an agreement to acquire email-security firm Area 1 Security for approximately $162 million in cash and stock, extending its Zero Trust platform into inbound email security.

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4. Sep 13, 2019Milestone

   IPO on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker NET

   Cloudflare priced its IPO at $15 per share and sold 40,250,000 shares of Class A common stock, beginning trading on the NYSE on September 13, 2019.

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5. Mar 12, 2019Funding

   Series E — $150M led by Franklin Templeton

   Cloudflare raised $150 million in a Series E round led by Franklin Templeton Investments and added Stan Meresman and Maria Eitel to its board of directors.

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6. Sep 22, 2015Funding

   Series D — $110M led by Fidelity

   Cloudflare raised a $110 million Series D led by Fidelity, with Google Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Microsoft, and Baidu participating, bringing total funding raised to date above $180 million.

   techcrunch.com
7. 2012Funding

   Series C — $50M led by Union Square Ventures

   Cloudflare closed a $50 million Series C led by Union Square Ventures; CEO Matthew Prince said the round closed in December 2012, though it was not publicly disclosed until TechCrunch reported it in December 2013.

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8. Sep 27, 2010Launch

   Public launch at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco

   Cloudflare publicly launched its content-delivery and security service on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in downtown San Francisco.

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9. Jul 26, 2009Founded

   Founded by Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, and Michelle Zatlyn

   Cloudflare, Inc. was founded on July 26, 2009, evolving Prince and Holloway's earlier Project Honey Pot spam-tracking system into a service that would also block online threats.

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