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Content delivery network

Cloudflare CDN

A global reverse-proxy and caching product with plan-dependent cache, purge, and request-control capabilities.

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Editorial verdict

Choose Cloudflare CDN when integrated proxy, cache, and zone operation remove more work than Cloudflare coupling and plan-dependent controls create.1247

Best for

  • Teams already operating Cloudflare zones
  • Applications needing managed cache rules and purge controls
  • Origins that benefit from cache offload through an integrated proxy
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Not ideal for

  • Teams requiring an unbundled CDN contract
  • AWS-first origin operations where CloudFront integration dominates
  • Workloads needing a deeply programmable engineering-operated delivery layer
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Main trade-off

Broad integration and low entry friction trade against product bundling, plan-specific controls, and Cloudflare coupling.1247

Product boundary

Whether an integrated Cloudflare reverse-proxy and cache is the right content-delivery route.

This Tool covers Cloudflare CDN and Cache. Workers, Queues, DNS, WAF, and other company products remain separate decisions and pricing surfaces.12

For: Web teams able to proxy their domains through Cloudflare and willing to adopt Cloudflare-specific cache controls

  • The domain cannot be proxied through Cloudflare.
  • Required cache keys, rules, purge, or support are outside the selected plan.
  • AWS-native origin policy or advanced programmable delivery is the primary requirement.

Why teams consider Cloudflare CDN

  • Integrated proxy and cacheZone routing and cache controls share one operating surface.12
  • Managed global deliveryThe team controls cache behavior without operating cache nodes.12
  • Origin offloadEligible cached responses can reduce repeated origin requests.12

Pricing

CDN/cache is available across Cloudflare plans; plan price, rules, cache keys, purge limits, analytics, support, and Enterprise terms must be checked together.23

Plan selection

Free, Pro, Business, or Enterprise

Verified 2026-07-25: cache is available across plans, while cache-key, rule, purge, analytics, and support boundaries vary.23

Primary cost boundary
Plan and plan-specific cache controls23
Separate products
Workers, Queues, DNS, WAF, logs, and support retain their own terms23
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Cloudflare CDN vs alternatives

Amazon CloudFront

Choose when
Choose it when AWS origins, IAM, and AWS operations dominate.
Compared with Cloudflare CDN
Deeper AWS integration with greater AWS configuration and billing complexity.46

Fastly CDN

Choose when
Choose it when programmable delivery control justifies an engineering-operated layer.
Compared with Cloudflare CDN
More control with more operating and pricing complexity.79

Bunny CDN

Choose when
Choose it when transparent regional bandwidth pricing and a narrower product matter most.
Compared with Cloudflare CDN
Simpler economics with fewer integrated platform capabilities.1012

Resources and sources

Official product, policy, and pricing

  • Cloudflare Cache documentation
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  • Cloudflare Cache plan differences
    Open
  • Cloudflare plans
    Open
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    Cloudflare Cache documentation

    Cloudflare · Accessed Official

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    Cloudflare Cache plan differences

    Cloudflare · Accessed Official

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    Cloudflare plans

    Cloudflare · Accessed Official

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    Amazon CloudFront introduction

    Amazon Web Services · Accessed Official

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    Choose CloudFront Functions or Lambda@Edge

    Amazon Web Services · Accessed Official

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    Amazon CloudFront pricing

    Amazon Web Services · Accessed Official

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    Fastly cache documentation

    Fastly · Accessed Official

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    Fastly cache purging

    Fastly · Accessed Official

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    Fastly pricing

    Fastly · Accessed Official

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    Bunny CDN documentation

    Bunny · Accessed Official

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    Bunny CDN Smart Cache

    Bunny · Accessed Official

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    Bunny pricing

    Bunny · Accessed Official