# Cloudflare

> Cloudflare operates a global network that protects and accelerates websites, connects employees to applications, and gives developers compute and storage services. Its business combines free access, paid subscriptions, enterprise contracts, and usage-based products including Workers and R2.

- **Founded:** 2009
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Matthew Prince (Co-founder, CEO and Co-Chair), Michelle Zatlyn (Co-founder, President and Co-Chair), Lee Holloway (Co-founder; original technical architect)
- **Products:** Application security and performance, Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare One, R2 Object Storage, Workers AI
- **Notable:** Won the Harvard Business School business-plan competition in April 2009., Launched publicly at TechCrunch Disrupt on September 27, 2010., Began NYSE trading under NET on September 13, 2019.

## Products & services

- **Application security and performance** — CDN, authoritative DNS, DDoS mitigation, WAF, bot management, API security, and traffic optimization. The core website service has free and paid plans.
- **Cloudflare Workers** — Serverless application execution on Cloudflare's network, with bindings to storage, databases, AI, and other platform services. Paid usage starts at a $5 monthly minimum.
- **Cloudflare One** — SASE and Zero Trust services for workforce and infrastructure connectivity, including Access and Gateway.
- **R2 Object Storage** — Object storage with no Internet egress fee; storage and operations are separately metered.
- **Workers AI** — Managed model inference integrated with Cloudflare's developer platform.
- **Cloudflare Stream** — Services for uploading, storing, encoding, and delivering video.
- **AI Crawl Control and Pay Per Crawl** — Tools for monitoring and managing AI crawler access; Pay Per Crawl was introduced in private beta in July 2025.
- **Pay Per Use** — Announced in beta September 30, 2026; participating AI companies report content use and Cloudflare manages billing, payouts, and reporting.
- **Cloudflare Basin** — Serverless data platform built on Apache Iceberg and R2, announced generally available October 1, 2026.
- **Cloudflare Traces** — Request tracing across Cloudflare security, routing, cache, Workers, origins, and connected services, announced during Birthday Week 2026.

## Achievements

- Won the Harvard Business School business-plan competition in April 2009.
- Launched publicly at TechCrunch Disrupt on September 27, 2010.
- Began NYSE trading under NET on September 13, 2019.
- Reported fiscal 2025 revenue of US$2,167.9 million.
- Project Galileo, launched in 2014, offers free protection for eligible at-risk public-interest sites.
- Announced general availability of Cloudflare Basin in October 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Cloudflare announced general availability of Basin, an Apache Iceberg and R2-based data platform, on October 1.
- **2026-10** — Birthday Week announcements included Cloudflare Traces and observability updates.
- **2026-09** — Pay Per Use entered beta on September 30, with reported AI content use linked to billing and payouts.
- **2026-08** — Q2 results reported US$696.1 million revenue, 36% year-over-year growth, and a US$205.7 million GAAP operating loss.
- **2026-07** — Cloudflare announced AI crawler classification, analytics, and commercial partnership changes under its Your Content, Your Rules initiative.

## Links

- Website: https://www.cloudflare.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudflare
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/cloudflare
- GitHub: https://github.com/cloudflare
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/cloudflare
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cloudflare/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cloudflare/

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Last updated: 2026-10-22