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On the Record · Cloudflare

Cloudflare competitors, on the record

The companies whose own annual reports name Cloudflare as a competitor, each with the sentence it appears in and the filing it came from.

Who Cloudflare names

Cloudflare’s annual reports for 2023 to 2025 describe its competition by kind of business and do not name competing companies.

Who names Cloudflare

Companies whose own annual reports name Cloudflare as a competitor.

  1. F5 · 2025

    Word for word“F5 competes with traditional edge players including Akamai, Cloudflare and Fastly, as well as networking vendors including Broadcom and Cisco, and pure-play vendors like Aviatrix, and public cloud providers.” 10-K for 2025
  2. GoDaddy · 2025

    Word for word“With respect to our Core Platform products and services: Newfold Digital, Namecheap, Tucows, Dynadot, GMO, Cloudflare, Let's Encrypt, SEDO, Comodo, Hostinger and Identity Digital;” 10-K for 2025
  3. Netscout Systems · 2026

    Word for word“We compete under the NetScout Arbor brand with a broad range of vendors including Radware, Akamai, F5 Networks, A10 Networks, Fortinet, Fastly, Cloudflare and Corero Network Security.” 10-K for 2026
  4. Neustar names it as “Cloudflare, Inc.” · 2016

    Word for word“With respect to our managed DNS services, our competitors include VeriSign, Inc., Cloudflare, Inc., and Cisco Systems, Inc.” 10-K for 2016

Read from Cloudflare’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-26. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.