The basics you need to protect and accelerate your site
Our mission is to build a better Internet. We believe every website should have free access to foundational security and performance.
Get your site up and running with our Free plan features:
Unmatched DDoS mitigation
Protect your site with the world’s #1 ranked DDoS mitigation solution. Rest easy knowing Cloudflare’s got your back.
The world’s fastest DNS resolver
Leverage the most private and the world’s fastest DNS resolver: 1.1.1.1 We will never sell your data or use it to target you with ads. Period.
The world’s #1 ranked Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Accelerate your website with our 285 data centers worldwide. We route your traffic to our closest data center ensuring lightning-fast load times.
Free SSL certificate
Secure the transfer of data between you and your website visitors instantly, with a free shared SSL certificate from Cloudflare.
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Why is our free plan so good?
At Cloudflare, our mission is to help build a better internet. We believe the web should be open and free, and that ALL websites and web users, no matter how small, should be safe, secure, and fast. Cloudflare always has and always will offer a generous free plan for many reasons.
We work hard to minimize the cost of running our network so we can offer huge value in our Free plan. On top of this, protecting more sites means we get better data about the types of attacks on our network so we can offer better security and protection for all.
As a privacy-first company, one thing we DON’T do is sell your data. In fact, Cloudflare recognizes privacy in personal data as a fundamental human right and has taken a number of steps to demonstrate our commitment to privacy.
“Knowing that we don’t have to worry about DDoS attacks against our API and gateway servers gives us the peace of mind to focus on improving our product.”
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Load Balancing safeguards from service disruptions with local and global traffic load balancing, geographic routing, server health checks, and failover, ensuring the continuous availability of your critical resources.
Rate Limiting protects against denial-of-service attacks, brute-force password attempts, and other types of abusive behavior targeting the application layer.
Argo is a service that uses optimized routes across the Cloudflare network to deliver responses to your users more quickly, reliably, and securely. Argo includes: Smart Routing and Tiered Caching.
Cloudflare Workers lets developers deploy serverless code written in JavaScript, Rust, C, and C++ to Cloudflare's edge, closer to the end user.
Cloudflare Access protects internal resources by securing, authenticating and monitoring access per-user and by application.
Cloudflare Stream makes streaming high quality video at scale, easy and affordable.
Advanced Certificate Manager is a flexible and customizable way to issue and manage certificates in Cloudflare.
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