Cloudflare
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2009CEO / Founder
Matthew PrinceEmployees
1001-5000Funding
PublicStock
NETProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.3/10Website
www.cloudflare.com
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About Cloudflare
Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure and security company founded in 2009 in San Francisco by Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, and Lee Holloway. The company operates one of the world's largest networks, providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, zero-trust security, edge compute (Cloudflare Workers), and AI inference.
Cloudflare serves more than 33 million internet properties and offers a Zero Trust suite competing with Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks. Its developer platform powers edge workloads for thousands of companies.
Cloudflare went public on NYSE in September 2019 (NET). Matthew Prince serves as CEO. The company generates over $1.5 billion in annual revenue.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Cloudflare competes with, and how they differ.
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.
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.
Focuses on infrastructure-as-code and provisioning (Terraform) rather than network edge/security, but overlaps with Cloudflare's infrastructure-management ambitions for multi-cloud teams.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Provides containerization and local development tooling rather than CDN/DNS/DDoS services; overlaps only at the edge-compute/deployment layer where Cloudflare Workers competes with containerized app delivery.
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