Cloudflare Pricing Calculator

Pick a plan, switch on the products you actually use, and see the real monthly figure. Plan subscriptions and developer platform usage are billed separately, which is where most estimates go wrong. Rates verified 6 August 2026.

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Most sites we audit are either paying for a tier they do not use or running into limits they could have designed around. We can look at what you are actually serving and tell you which plan fits, and whether moving work to Workers or R2 would cost or save you money.

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What each plan is actually for

PlanPer monthSuits
Free$0Personal sites and side projects. DNS, unmetered DDoS protection, CDN, universal SSL and a basic WAF, at no cost.
Pro$20 to $25Small business sites that need image optimisation, better WAF rules and priority support.
Business$200 to $250Commercial sites needing PCI DSS 4.0 compliance, a 100% uptime SLA and advanced support.
EnterpriseCustom quoteOrganisations needing enhanced uptime credits, network prioritisation and dedicated support with professional services.

Prices verified against cloudflare.com/plans on 6 August 2026. The lower figure in each range is the annual commitment; the higher is month-to-month. Enterprise pricing is negotiated individually and is not published.

How Cloudflare pricing fits together

Cloudflare bills in two separate directions, and confusing them is why estimates come out wrong. The plan subscription covers your zone: DNS, the CDN, DDoS protection, the firewall and the support tier. The developer platform products, Workers, R2, Images and the rest, are metered by usage and billed independently of which plan you are on. A Free plan account can run a substantial Workers bill, and a Business plan does not include any Workers usage.

The plan ladder is steep. Free is genuinely free and genuinely useful, covering DNS, unmetered DDoS mitigation, the CDN and universal SSL. Pro at $20 a month on annual billing adds image optimisation and better firewall rules. Business jumps to $200 a month, and the jump buys compliance and support rather than performance, which is why so many sites sit on Pro indefinitely.

Most people overestimate which tier they need. If you are choosing between Pro and Business, the deciding question is almost never speed, because the CDN behaves the same on both. It is whether you need PCI DSS 4.0 compliance, a contractual uptime SLA or a support response time you can point at in a meeting. If none of those apply, Pro is usually the honest answer and the extra $180 a month is better spent elsewhere.

The developer platform is where bills grow unexpectedly, because usage-based pricing has no ceiling. Workers Paid starts at $5 a month including ten million requests and thirty million CPU milliseconds, then charges $0.30 per additional million requests. R2 adds $0.015 per GB-month beyond the free ten gigabytes. Images bills $0.50 per thousand unique transformations after the first five thousand. None of these is expensive in isolation, and all of them scale with traffic you do not directly control.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Cloudflare cost per month?
The Free plan costs nothing and covers DNS, CDN, DDoS protection and SSL. Pro is $20 a month billed annually or $25 month-to-month. Business is $200 or $250. Enterprise is quoted individually. Developer platform products such as Workers, R2 and Images are billed separately by usage on top of whichever plan you hold.
Is the Cloudflare Free plan good enough for a business site?
For a great many business sites, yes. The Free plan includes the same global CDN and unmetered DDoS protection as the paid tiers, so raw performance and attack resilience are not what you are buying when you upgrade. You move to Pro for image optimisation and better firewall rules, and to Business for compliance requirements and a contractual SLA.
Does a paid Cloudflare plan include Workers or R2?
No. Plan subscriptions and developer platform usage are billed separately. Being on Business does not include any Workers requests or R2 storage, and being on Free does not prevent you from using either. Workers Paid is its own $5 a month subscription, and R2 is metered from the first gigabyte above the free allowance.