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Overview

Cloudflare protects and accelerates million of website online using a single change to your DNS by offering CDN functionality and advanced security.

Wordfence is a web application firewall that identifies and blocks malicious traffic on WordPress websites. With an integrated security scanner, Wordfence can analyze WordPress files, themes, and plugins for malware, SEO spam, bad URLs, malicious redirects, and code injections.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

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Pricing

Starting from

20

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

Free

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.7

530

5

4

3

2

1

420

87

14

1

8

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
88%
would recommend this app

4.9

29

5

4

3

2

1

26

3

0

0

0

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
97%
would recommend this app

Pros

“It helps me to save my lot of money as it handles DNS management, Provides free SSL certificate, actually it give me enterprise level security and performance My website is [sensitive content hidden]”
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Kaushik P.

CEO

“Cloudflare is a valuable service to have for your web presence and helps deliver a faster website user experience for our clients, with great features and spam/bot traffic protection.”
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David V.

Lead Developer

“What I liked most about Cloudflare is how much it helps with website security, DNS management, and performance in one place.”
BE

Basel E.

IT Manager

Pros

“Wordfence offers very reliable security for your Wordpress sites. Since the free version is usually enough for most Wordpress sites, that is a plus.”
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Collis C.

Internet Marketer

“It's easy to use and provides various ways to completely prohibit website attacks like filtering IPs, brute-forcing, and Filtering by countries, and offers additional security grids for website administrators (2FA and backup codes).”
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Ferent L.

Web Designer - Junior Platform Maintainance Engineer And Seasoned Online Marketing Assistant

“It gives you peace of mind that your website is protected from external attacks and the alerts will always notify you if something unusual is taking place. If you need to interrogate traffic further it is simple to do so and it is possible to add rules to create an extra security level which has helped us prevent bot attacks through our donation/payment system.”
LG

Lauren G.

Digital Fundraising Manager

Cons

“Support Gap for Non-Enterprise Tiers, Complexity and "Dangerous" Settings, False Positives in Security Rules, Centralization Risks ("The Internet's Single Point of Failure"), Billing and Plan Limitations”
vp

ville p.

Specialist

“Troubleshooting whether an issue comes from the application, the cache or a Cloudflare rule is not always straightforward, and the dashboard can feel dense when moving beyond the basic setup.”
KS

Kaynan S.

Software Engineer

“The newer UI is a bit confusing on which site you are working with, and some of the features are a bit complex to work with.”
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Andrew M.

Owner

Cons

“It's not a perfect solution and you have to pay $100 per year for full protection.”
RB

Richard B.

CEO

“Even with the 25% discount when we buy more than 15 licenses, it is still expensive for the smaller clients.”
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PAUL O.

IT Director

“I think maybe a bit difficult to understand some of their features and settings after you are set up”
HB

Helena B.

professional mentor

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  • Last review9 days ago
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  • Last review4 months ago

Key features

  • Total features33
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Monitoring
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Escalation
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Anomaly/Malware Detection
  • Application Management
  • Cloud Application Security
  • Compliance Management
  • Content Management
  • DDoS Protection
  • Dashboard
  • Data Management
  • Data Security
  • Diagnostic Tools
  • Encryption
  • Endpoint Protection
  • Filtering
  • Firewalls
  • Global Network
  • IP Filtering
  • Intrusion Detection System
  • Intrusion Prevention System
  • Load Balancing
  • ML Algorithm Library
  • Model Training
  • Monitoring
  • Performance Metrics
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reverse Proxy
  • SQL Injections
  • SSL Security
  • Summary Reports
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Threat Response
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • VPN
  • Video Archiving
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Web Traffic Reporting
  • Web-Application Security
  • Website Analytics
  • Total features21
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Monitoring
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Escalation
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Anomaly/Malware Detection
  • Application Management
  • Cloud Application Security
  • Compliance Management
  • Content Management
  • DDoS Protection
  • Dashboard
  • Data Management
  • Data Security
  • Diagnostic Tools
  • Encryption
  • Endpoint Protection
  • Filtering
  • Firewalls
  • Global Network
  • IP Filtering
  • Intrusion Detection System
  • Intrusion Prevention System
  • Load Balancing
  • ML Algorithm Library
  • Model Training
  • Monitoring
  • Performance Metrics
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reverse Proxy
  • SQL Injections
  • SSL Security
  • Summary Reports
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Threat Response
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • VPN
  • Video Archiving
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Web Traffic Reporting
  • Web-Application Security
  • Website Analytics

Integrations

  • Total integrations31
  • Adobe Commerce
  • Amazon EC2
  • Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  • Buddy
  • Chaossearch
  • Coralogix
  • Cordial
  • Crafter CMS
  • Crisp
  • Desktop.com
  • Drupal
  • Google Analytics 360
  • Hostinger
  • Jira
  • Joomla
  • Landerlab
  • Lime Connect
  • ProveSource
  • Rambox
  • Rippling
  • SatisMeter
  • Secureframe
  • Sender
  • Shopify
  • Site Search 360
  • SiteSpect
  • Webflow
  • WordPress
  • Znode
  • tawk.to
  • vBulletin
  • Total integrationsN/A
  • Adobe Commerce
  • Amazon EC2
  • Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  • Buddy
  • Chaossearch
  • Coralogix
  • Cordial
  • Crafter CMS
  • Crisp
  • Desktop.com
  • Drupal
  • Google Analytics 360
  • Hostinger
  • Jira
  • Joomla
  • Landerlab
  • Lime Connect
  • ProveSource
  • Rambox
  • Rippling
  • SatisMeter
  • Secureframe
  • Sender
  • Shopify
  • Site Search 360
  • SiteSpect
  • Webflow
  • WordPress
  • Znode
  • tawk.to
  • vBulletin