European Cloudflare Alternatives
Euronomy Team
Cloudflare sits in front of a huge slice of the web, terminating your visitors' encrypted traffic and seeing who connects, and it has cut customers off over content disputes. Europe has CDN and DDoS providers that keep that traffic under EU jurisdiction.
No single European brand replaces Cloudflare at Cloudflare's price. Cloudflare gives away DNS, CDN, unmetered DDoS and a basic firewall because that free plan feeds a business selling to enterprises. Europe sells the same pieces close to cost, so expect to pay a euro or two a month, and to use two brands where you used one.
Bunny.net comes closest to doing the whole job alone, and Gcore has the only free tier worth the name. Below: nine European services, sorted from what one person can run for pocket change up to what a bank buys.
Bunny.net
Known for: Fast global CDN at $0.01 per GB in Europe, with DNS, edge storage, video and edge scripting on the same bill. Shield adds WAF and rate limiting.
Price: $1 per month minimum. CDN $0.01 per GB in Europe, $0.005 per GB on the volume network. Shield free at 25M requests, then $9.50 per month.
Best for: Individuals and small businesses who want one vendor for the whole stack..
CDNSun
Known for: Low-cost Czech CDN with DDoS protection included and hand-picked points of presence so you only pay for the regions you serve.
Price: 15 day free trial. $0.030 per GB in Europe and North America, $0.060 elsewhere, no minimum spend on the business plan, no setup or cancellation fees.
Best for: Individuals and small sites moving off Cloudflare's free plan on a tight budget.
KeyCDN
Known for: Simple pay as you go CDN from Switzerland, with real-time analytics, instant purge and image processing.
Price: 14 day free trial. $0.04 per GB in Europe and North America falling to $0.01 above 100 TB, no request charges, free TLS. $4 monthly minimum and a $49 minimum top-up.
Best for: Developers and smaller sites that want fast delivery and nothing else. Not a security replacement.
Scaleway
Known for: French cloud provider with virtual servers, S3-compatible object storage, DNS, VPC, managed Kubernetes, managed databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL), dedicated servers, and rack rental. Renewable-energy hosted. The most developer-friendly European cloud.
Pricing: Development instances from €7.68/month. Pay-as-you-go. Transparent pricing. DNS Starter EUR 0.99 per month with 100 GB of cache, WAF EUR 4 extra.
Best for: Individuals and small businesses
OVHcloud CDN
Known for: CDN from Europe's largest cloud, with OVHcloud's network-wide anti-DDoS included and everything under French jurisdiction.
Price: Standalone CDN Infrastructure EUR 10.99 per month ex VAT, no commitment, 1 TB of traffic and free SSL included, extra terabytes EUR 9.99. The web hosting add-on runs from $2.79 per month, and $6.59 adds a WAF.
Best for: Businesses already hosting with OVHcloud who want caching and DDoS cover on the same invoice.
Leaseweb CDN
Known for: Dutch-managed Multi-CDN that routes your traffic across four partner delivery networks from one portal, API and invoice.
Price: No public pricing and no free tier. Quote only, through sales.
Best for: Businesses already on Leaseweb bare metal who want delivery on the same contract. Look elsewhere if the point is keeping the edge itself European.
Link11
Known for: German security platform covering network and application DDoS, WAF, bot management, API security, secure CDN and secure DNS, on Link11's own infrastructure.
Price: No free tier. Core EUR 613 per month, or EUR 490 billed annually, for 2 domains, 1 TB and 50M requests. Advanced EUR 988, or EUR 790 annually. 90 day money-back guarantee. CDN and network DDoS are quoted separately.
Best for: Businesses that need the protection half of Cloudflare from a German vendor, with a price they can see before the sales call.
Myra Security
Known for: Compliance-grade DDoS protection, WAF, bot management, EU CAPTCHA and waiting room for critical infrastructure, BSI qualified and run entirely in Germany.
Price: No free tier and no self-serve signup. Configurator estimate starts around EUR 399 per month, final price on quote.
Best for: Banks, insurers, public bodies and other regulated businesses. Overkill for a personal site.
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