Cloudflare AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Web Application Firewalls

The best Web Application Firewall alternative to Cloudflare is Anubis. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Anubis or BunkerWeb. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Cloudflare and 18 are Web Application Firewalls so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Web Application Firewall alternatives to Cloudflare are Sucuri, Medianova, Gcore and Nexusguard.

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  1. Anubis icon
     16 likes

    Applies sha256 proof-of-work challenges to incoming HTTP requests, targeting AI crawlers, bots that ignore robots.txt, and automated scrapers, protecting server resources and preventing unwanted search engine indexing for privacy-focused sites.

    48 Anubis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Docker
     
  2. Imperva CDN is a cloud-based platform that integrates content caching, load balancing, and failover to securely distribute applications globally. It uses machine learning to cache dynamically-generated pages, reducing bandwidth consumption.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. BunkerWeb icon
     8 likes

    BunkerWeb is a next-generation and open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF).

    58 BunkerWeb alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Comments about BunkerWeb as an Alternative to Cloudflare
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Best on Prem alternative so far

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • BunkerWeb is Free and Open SourceCloudflare is Freemium and Proprietary
    • BunkerWeb is LightweightCloudflare is not according to our users
  4. Sucuri icon
     8 likes

    A web security portfolio offering a combination of on-premise installed security software in conjunction with a cloud hosted web application firewall and CDN.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  5. Medianova icon
     Like

    Medianova is a global company offering content delivery network (CDN) and cloud security solutions. Recognized by Gartner, the company specializes in areas such as Dynamic Site Caching, Static Content Delivery, Image Optimization, API Caching, Streaming, Hybrid CDN, Cloud Object...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Gcore icon
     19 likes

    Edge cloud infrastructure with low latency around the world. Approved by game publishers and media. Store, deliver and protect any content for your latency-sensitive services. Reduce capital and operating costs. The best delivery speed in Europe.

    18 Gcore alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    1
    Comments about Gcore as an Alternative to Cloudflare
    geri4
    Positive
    1

    Gcore has totally free global DNS service the same as Cloudflare+free CDN plan with WAF

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Gcore is Freemium and ProprietaryCloudflare is also Freemium and Proprietary
  7. Nexusguard is the global leader in fighting malicious internet attacks. Nexusguard protects clients against a multitude of threats, including distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Tailored protection and performance solutions for your websites, portals, APIs, and infrastructure: the Myra Security as a Service Platform protects against risks such as DDoS attacks, botnet activities, zero-day exploits and other attacks on web applications, APIs, or databases.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. Intelligent Anti-DDoS Protection.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Alviy icon
     19 likes

    Alviy is Infrastructure-as-a-Service provides Dynamic DNS, Backup/Secondary DNS service and domain hosting with DNS zone management.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    1
    Comments about Alviy as an Alternative to Cloudflare
    leoonb
    Positive
    0

    It is not subject to extremely strict moderation and is not spammed in databases like the lesser known variant.

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    • Alviy is Freemium and ProprietaryCloudflare is also Freemium and Proprietary
  11. BitMitigate icon
     1 like

    Highest performing combination platform that delivers 10X improvements to page load times with enterprise-grade performance but at the fraction of the cost of commercial alternatives such as CloudFlare and SiteLock.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. 5centsCDN icon
     1 like

    A comprehensive solution to all your content delivery concerns, A game-changing infrastructure of content delivery that provides advanced solutions including Web acceleration, live streaming, cloud storage, and encoding services.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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