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Cloudflare vs Kasada
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Cloudflare if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you're in its core audience: website owners, developers
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Choose Kasada if…
- you're in its core audience: enterprise security teams, e-commerce and retail companies
Side by side
Feature Cloudflare Kasada
Pricing modelFreemiumContact for pricing
Starting price$5/mo—
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWebWeb
CategoryDDoS protection & WAFBot protection
CompanyCloudflare, Inc.Kasada
Full feature lists
C Cloudflare
- Unmetered DDoS protection on all plans
- Web application firewall and bot protection
- Global CDN and DNS in 335+ cities
- Universal SSL certificates
- Zero Trust access, SWG and DEX
- Workers serverless functions billed by CPU time
- R2 object storage without egress fees
- D1 SQL, Workers KV and Durable Objects
K Kasada
- Bot mitigation without CAPTCHAs
- Obfuscated JavaScript VM with changing custom bytecode
- Account intelligence linking devices to identities
- AI agent verification with endpoint-level access policies
- Credential stuffing and account takeover protection
- Guest checkout fraud risk scoring before payment
- SMS toll fraud and OTP abuse detection
- Edge blocking of bad traffic to cut infrastructure costs
What you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
| Team size | Cloudflare | Kasada |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $7 Zero Trust Pay-as-you-go | no published plan |
| 5 people | $20 Pro | no published plan |
| 20 people | $20 Pro | no published plan |
All plans and prices
Cloudflare
Free (Network & CDN)$0
Pro$20/mo billed annually or $25/mo billed monthly
Business$200/mo billed annually or $250/mo billed monthly
ContractCustom
Zero Trust Free$0
Zero Trust Pay-as-you-go$7/user/month
Workers Paid$0.30 / million requests + $0.02 / million CPU ms
Kasada
Contact for pricing. Plan details aren't published.
Strengths and limitations
Cloudflare
- Free plan includes unmetered DDoS protection, CDN and SSL
- Zero Trust free for up to 50 users
- Workers billed for CPU time, not idle wall time
- R2 storage has no egress fees
- Uptime SLA only on Business plan and above
- PCI DSS compliance requires Business plan
- Free Zero Trust plan keeps logs only 24 hours
Kasada
- Works without CAPTCHAs for real users
- Covers bots, human fraud and AI agents on one platform
- Named a Leader in the Forrester Wave for Bot and Agent Trust Management, Q2 2026
- Agent access controls work per endpoint, not just allow or block
- No public pricing; sales demo required
- Aimed at large enterprises rather than small sites
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Other options to consider
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Paid
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Contact
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From $3830/mo
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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 10, 2026. Editorial policy