Cloudflare Load Balancing
Cloud-agnostic traffic distribution with automatic multi-region failover
- Vendor
- Cloudflare
- Also known as
- cloudflare-load-balancing
Available worldwide
What is Cloudflare Load Balancing?
Routes traffic intelligently across multiple cloud providers, data centers, and on-premises servers using health checks and latency metrics. Supports active failover to prevent application downtime.
Cloudflare Load Balancing pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Starting at $5/month
Load Balancing
- Active/Passive failover between data centers and cloud regions
- Multi-cloud support (AWS, GCP, Azure, on-premise)
- Geographic routing
- Health checks from global network
- Near-instantaneous global failover
What Cloudflare Load Balancing does
The capabilities that matter for load balancers, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Layer
- -
- Deployment form
- Cloud managed service
- Tls termination
- -
- Http2 http3 support
- -
- Gslb multi region
- ✓
- K8s ingress or gateway API
- -
- WAF bundled
- -
- Autoscaling integration
- -
- Health check depth
- -
- Session persistence
- -
- Fips 140 validated
- -
- Open source
- -
- Pricing model
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
Cloudflare Load Balancing FAQ
Common questions about Cloudflare Load Balancing, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Cloudflare Load Balancing?
A traffic distribution service that intelligently directs user requests to the healthiest and fastest servers across different cloud providers and data centers, enabling continuous uptime and zero-downtime deployments. It is indexed under Load Balancers.
Source: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans
How much does Cloudflare Load Balancing cost?
Cloudflare Load Balancing is a paid product; published pricing starts at $5 per month. There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans
Can Cloudflare Load Balancing be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Cloudflare Load Balancing, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans
What does Cloudflare Load Balancing integrate with?
We have confirmed 3 integrations for Cloudflare Load Balancing, including AWS, GCP and Azure. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans
Where is Cloudflare Load Balancing available?
Cloudflare Load Balancing is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.
Source: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans
Cloudflare Load Balancing alternatives
Other load balancers we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- AWS Elastic Load BalancingAutomatically distribute application traffic across multiple computing resourceslow · 25%
- Envoy Proxylow · 27%
- NGINXA lightweight, high-performance web server and reverse proxylow · 6%
- MetalLBlow · 14%
- Google Cloud Load BalancingA managed service that distributes traffic across applications for optimal performance and reliabilitylow · 7%
- Kemp LoadMasterlow · 8%
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
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| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 75 | 0.06 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 0.05 | 1.5 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 0.05 | 0.8 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.16 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 63% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Deployment form: cloud-managed-service · Gslb multi region: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-12 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-10-12 · 75% |
Pricing
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Trust center | https://www.cloudflare.com/solutions/security | mediumsource · 2026-10-12 · 60% |
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