Cloudflare vs IBM Cloud
No clear leader: Cloudflare (80.3) and IBM Cloud (76.2) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for cloud infrastructure. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare operates an edge network spanning 335+ cities worldwide, offering integrated services for application security, CDN performance, DDoS protection, and serverless computing. The platform enables businesses to build, secure, and scale applications without managing underlying infrastructure.
IBM Cloud
A cloud infrastructure and services platform designed for building and managing applications across on-premises data centers and multiple cloud providers, with built-in security and compliance capabilities for regulated industries.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Cloudflare
From $0 (free) to $250/month for standard plans; serverless compute metered per usage (Workers from $0.30/million requests, Containers from $0.0000025/GiB-second). Free tier available.
- FreeFree
- Fast, Easy-to-use DNS
- Unmetered DDoS Protection
- CDN
- Universal SSL Certificate
- Free Managed Ruleset
- +3 more
- Pro$20/month billed annually or $25/month billed monthly
- All Free features
- Lossless Image Optimization
- Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
- PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance
- 100% Uptime SLA
- +2 more
- Business$200/month billed annually or $250/month billed monthly
- All Pro features
- 10x (Standard) or 25x (Premium) Uptime Service Credits
- Professional support available
- ContractContact sales
- All Business features
- Network Prioritization
- 24/7 Phone, chat, ticket support
- Professional services available
IBM Cloud
Free Lite tier available. Pay-As-You-Go for full access. Support plans from $200/month
- LiteFree
- Free service access
- Pay-As-You-GoUsage-based pricing
- Full catalog access
- Pay per use
- No long-term commitment
- Enterprise Savings PlanCommitted spend plan
- Volume discount
- Annual commitment
- IBM Cloud ReservationsReserved capacity
- Capacity reservation
- Long-term discount
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Cloudflare
- App Marketplace (developer ecosystem)
IBM Cloud
- Anaplan
- Apache
- Elasticsearch
- IBM Analytics Engine
- IBM Blockchain Platform
- IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
- IBM Cloud Pak for Data
- IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
- IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation
- IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps
- IBM Db2 Warehouse
- IBM InfoSphere Information Server
- IBM Master Data Management
- IBM Turbonomic
- IBM Watson Assistant
- IBM Watson Discovery
- IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog
- IBM Watson Knowledge Studio
- IBM Watson Language Translator
- IBM Watson Natural Language Classifier
- IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding
- IBM Watson Speech to Text
- IBM Watson Studio
- IBM Watson Text to Speech
- +11 more
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.