How Cloudflare prices
Captured October 26, 2026 at 1440px wide.
Cloudflare plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|
| FreeFor personal or hobby projects that aren't business-critical. | $0 | /month |
| ProFor professional websites that aren't business-critical. | $20 | /mo billed annually, or $25/mo billed monthly |
| BusinessFor small businesses operating online. | $200 | /mo billed annually, or $250/mo billed monthly |
| ContractFor mission-critical applications that are core to your business. | Custom | Billed annually |
As printed on the page captured October 26, 2026.
How does Cloudflare pricing work?
Each tab uses its own value metric. Network & CDN is a flat plan per site: Free at '$0 /month', Pro at '$20 /mo billed annually, or $25/mo billed monthly', Business at '$200 /mo billed annually, or $250/mo billed monthly', and Contract at 'Custom Billed annually'. SASE / Zero Trust is per user: Free for 'Teams under 50 users or enterprise proof-of-concept tests', Pay-as-you-go at '$7 /user/month' and Contract at an 'Annual price per user'. Compute & Storage is a rate card with a free and a paid column for every component, such as Workers at '100k / day' then '$0.30 / million requests' and R2 at '10 GB-month' then '$0.015 / GB-month'. Basin, which will 'Ingest, catalog, and query data with monthly included usage.', meters each stage of a data pipeline on its own unit: SQL transforms at '$0.04 / GB', sink delivery at '$0.03 / GB' for JSON and '$0.06 / GB' for Parquet or Iceberg, Catalog operations at '$9 / million operations' and Basin SQL at '$0.0025 / GB'. A CDN's cost is tied to the site, SASE protects people, and serverless compute and data processing are metered, so each line prices what it serves.
The motion is self-serve with a contract tier on every tab. Plan descriptions sort buyers by how much the site matters: Free and Pro are for projects 'that aren't business-critical', Business is 'For small businesses operating online', and Contract is 'For mission-critical applications that are core to your business.' The hero reads 'Scale predictably' and 'Pay only for what you use.' above the tab control, and 'Compare all features' sits right under the cards with values such as '100%' Uptime SLA and service credits. Below come a ten-tile add-on grid with printed rates, a 'Cloudflare powers 1 in 5 sites on the Internet' logo band and a Shopify quote, a product directory where Basin and K2 now sit in the Storage column, and a 'Build without boundaries' close with 'Start building for free' and 'View docs'.
Under the hood, every metered product pairs a free allowance with a paid rate, which makes the free tier a working environment and the paid rate a straight line from there. Basin spells out its billing rules in a note under the table: 'R2 storage and operations are billed separately.', 'Sink delivery is billed by uncompressed data sent to each destination.', 'Basin SQL is $2.50 / TB with a 10 MB minimum billable scan per query.' and 'Compaction charges apply only when enabled.' Stream ingress is 'Unlimited' and free, so data flows in at no charge and revenue attaches to the work done on it. The rate card adds 'Prices listed are for monthly billing. Discounts are available for annual upfront commitments.', the lever that turns metered usage into a committed contract. Contract service credits come in packages, '10x (Standard); 25x (Premium)', which points to tiered enterprise SLAs sold inside the contract. Pass-through costs are named as such: Cloudflare Registrar offers 'At-cost domain registration with no markup pricing'. Running three models side by side, each on the metric its cost follows, is a structure any multi-product platform can borrow.
What does Cloudflare's pricing page do well?
- Each card prints both cadences inline, such as '$20 /mo billed annually, or $25/mo billed monthly', which makes the annual saving self-evident
- Three product tabs, Network & CDN, SASE / Zero Trust and Compute & Storage, let each business line use the metric that fits it
- The comparison table sits directly under the cards and shows values, such as '100%' Uptime SLA and '10x (Standard); 25x (Premium)' service credits
- The Compute & Storage tab publishes a complete rate card with a free allowance and a paid rate per component, from Workers requests to Basin's '$0.0025 / GB' scanned
- Add-on tiles carry their rate, from 'Starting at $5/mo' to '$1/GB ingested; first 10 GB free' and '$0.099/1k requests'
What does Cloudflare's pricing page reveal about its pricing strategy?
- Three value metrics, per site, per user and per unit of compute or data, each match the cost of the line they price
- Plan descriptions sort buyers by how business-critical the site is, which moves revenue-bearing traffic up the ladder
- Every metered product starts with a free allowance, daily for Workers and monthly for Basin, so a developer builds on the real platform before the first invoice
- Basin prices each pipeline stage on its own unit, ingress free and transforms, delivery, catalog and queries metered, and notes that R2 storage is billed separately, the same separation that keeps at-cost domain registration a pass-through
- Annual upfront commitments earn discounts on metered rates, the bridge from pay-as-you-go to contract
Learn with Orb
- Guide8 SaaS pricing models: how to choose one Three tabs run three models, a flat plan per site, a price per user, and a metered rate card for compute; Orb's guide walks through each of these and how to choose among them.
- GuidePay-as-you-go pricing for SaaS Every Compute & Storage primitive opens with a free allowance and then a paid rate, the low barrier to entry and usage-scaled revenue that Orb's pay-as-you-go guide describes.
- DocsConfiguring plans: minimums and plan phases Annual upfront commitments earn discounts on metered rates, the bridge from pay-as-you-go to contract; in Orb, a dollar commitment is a minimum, and plan phases step it up on a schedule.
Questions about Cloudflare pricing
How much does Cloudflare cost?
Cloudflare's pricing starts at $20/mo. The page shows 4 plans, including a free plan, with the top plan priced through sales. Paying annually saves 20%.
What pricing model does Cloudflare use?
Cloudflare prices with flat-rate tiers, combined with usage-based pricing and per-seat pricing. Buyers can sign up on their own or go through the sales team. Its plans are aimed mainly at developers.
Does Cloudflare have a free plan?
Yes, Cloudflare has a free plan. Paid plans start at $20/mo.
Does Cloudflare offer an annual discount?
Yes, paying annually saves 20%. The listed prices start at $20/mo. Terms for the plans priced through sales are set with the sales team.
How is Cloudflare's pricing page laid out?
The page shows 4 plans and includes a comparison table. The breakdown above marks 14 points on it: 7 things it does well and 7 insights into the pricing.
What are the Cloudflare Workers free limits and paid rates?
Cloudflare Workers includes 100k requests per day and 10 ms of CPU time per request on the free tier. Past that, paid usage is billed at $0.30 / million requests and $0.02 / million CPU ms. The rate card notes that prices listed are for monthly billing, and discounts are available for annual upfront commitments.
Is Cloudflare Zero Trust free for small teams?
Yes. The SASE / Zero Trust Free plan is $0 forever for "Teams under 50 users or enterprise proof-of-concept tests", with a 50-user limit, community forums and Discord support, and up to 24 hours of log retention. Teams over 50 move to Pay-as-you-go at $7 /user/month, which has no user limit, adds chat and ticket support, and keeps logs up to 30 days.
How is Cloudflare Basin priced?
Basin meters each pipeline stage separately, with stream ingress listed as unlimited and free. SQL transforms include 50 GB / month, then $0.04 / GB, and sink delivery includes 50 GB / month shared across sinks, then $0.03 / GB for JSON or $0.06 / GB for Parquet or Iceberg. Basin SQL is billed by compressed data scanned at $0.0025 / GB after 10 GB / month, and the page states "Basin SQL is $2.50 / TB with a 10 MB minimum billable scan per query." R2 storage and operations are billed separately.
From the page as captured October 26, 2026. Current prices are on cloudflare.com
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