Cloudflare product scores
49 products · 14 recommended · 29 with caveats · 6 not recommended.
The Orange Cloud Report is one operator's review of every major Cloudflare product, drawn from more than a decade of production experience on the platform. Each review ends in a single rating: would I recommend it for production today, out of 10. Scores change when the products do. Read how the scores work.
| Product | Category | Score ↓ | Score meter | Updated | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDN & Caching | Network | 10/10 | |||
| DDoS Protection | Security | 10/10 | |||
| DNS | Network | 10/10 | |||
| Workers | Compute | 10/10 | |||
| Access (Zero Trust) | SASE / Zero Trust | 9/10 | |||
| Cloudflare Tunnel | SASE / Zero Trust | 9/10 | |||
| KV | Storage | 9/10 | |||
| SSL/TLS | Security | 9/10 | |||
| WAF | Security | 9/10 | |||
| Email Routing | Network | 8/10 | |||
| Hyperdrive | Storage | 8/10 | |||
| Registrar | Network | 8/10 | |||
| Turnstile | Security | 8/10 | |||
| Workflows | Compute | 8/10 | |||
| AI Gateway | AI | 7/10 | |||
| Browser Run | Compute | 7/10 | |||
| Email Workers | Compute | 7/10 | |||
| Rate Limiting | Security | 7/10 | |||
| Rules | Network | 7/10 | |||
| Snippets | Network | 7/10 | |||
| Stream | Media | 7/10 | |||
| Workers Analytics Engine | Storage | 7/10 | |||
| Workers Observability | Compute | 7/10 | |||
| Argo Smart Routing | Network | 6/10 | |||
| Bot Management | Network | 6/10 | |||
| Email Service | Compute | 6/10 | |||
| Gateway | SASE / Zero Trust | 6/10 | |||
| Images | Media | 6/10 | |||
| Load Balancing | Network | 6/10 | |||
| Pages | Compute | 6/10 | |||
| Queues | Storage | 6/10 | |||
| R2 | Storage | 6/10 | |||
| Secrets Store | Security | 6/10 | |||
| Waiting Room | Network | 6/10 | |||
| Workers for Platforms | Compute | 6/10 | |||
| API Shield | Network | 5/10 | |||
| Containers | Compute | 5/10 | |||
| Pipelines | Storage | 5/10 | |||
| Rate Limiting (Workers binding) | Compute | 5/10 | |||
| Realtime | Media | 5/10 | |||
| Spectrum | Network | 5/10 | |||
| Vectorize | AI | 5/10 | |||
| Web Analytics | Network | 5/10 | |||
| AI Search | AI | 4/10 | |||
| Zaraz | Network | 4/10 | |||
| Cloudflare Fonts | Network | 3/10 | |||
| D1 | Storage | 3/10 | |||
| Workers AI | AI | 3/10 | |||
| Durable Objects | Compute | 2/10 |
Scoring: 8–10 recommend · 5–7 recommend with caveats · 0–4 would not recommend. Personal, anecdotal opinions from a decade of production use — how to read these.
All scores and opinions are personal, anecdotal, and based on my own production experience. This site is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Cloudflare, Inc. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
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