# Cloudflare alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 378 of the 756 answers in the 3 categories where Cloudflare holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cloudflare/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- DNSFilter: 75
- Cisco Umbrella: 56
- Cloudflare Gateway: 38
- Cloudflare One: 25
- Control D: 12
- NextDNS: 9

## DDoS protection

**Small business**: 13 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare (Cloudflare is #1 of 9 at 100%).


**Mid-market**: 22 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare (Cloudflare is #1 of 9 at 94%).


**Enterprise**: 27 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare (Cloudflare is #1 of 9 at 68%).

- Akamai Prolexic: first choice in 1 of those 27
- Cloudflare Magic Transit: first choice in 1 of those 27
- Cloudflare One: first choice in 1 of those 27

## Content delivery networks

**Small business**: 17 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare (Cloudflare is #1 of 8 at 91%).

- Bunny.net: first choice in 5 of those 17
- Cloudflare CDN: first choice in 1 of those 17
- Cloudflare Free or Pro: first choice in 1 of those 17

**Mid-market**: 27 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare (Cloudflare is #1 of 9 at 93%).

- Bunny.net: first choice in 1 of those 27

**Enterprise**: 26 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare (Cloudflare is #1 of 8 at 69%).

- Akamai: first choice in 3 of those 26
- Fastly: first choice in 1 of those 26

## DNS filtering

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare.

- DNSFilter: first choice in 32 of those 84
- Cloudflare Gateway: first choice in 22 of those 84
- Cloudflare One: first choice in 12 of those 84
- Cisco Umbrella: first choice in 6 of those 84
- Control D: first choice in 6 of those 84
- NextDNS: first choice in 4 of those 84
- Cloudflare DNS Security: first choice in 1 of those 84
- Cloudflare for Business: first choice in 1 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 80 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare (Cloudflare is #10 of 11 at 0%).

- DNSFilter: first choice in 33 of those 80
- Cisco Umbrella: first choice in 14 of those 80
- Cloudflare Gateway: first choice in 10 of those 80
- Cloudflare One: first choice in 7 of those 80
- NextDNS: first choice in 5 of those 80
- Control D: first choice in 2 of those 80
- Quad9: first choice in 2 of those 80
- Cloudflare DNS: first choice in 1 of those 80

**Enterprise**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare.

- Cisco Umbrella: first choice in 36 of those 82
- DNSFilter: first choice in 10 of those 82
- Cloudflare Gateway: first choice in 6 of those 82
- Cloudflare One: first choice in 5 of those 82
- Control D: first choice in 4 of those 82

Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.