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Cloudflare vs Google Cloud

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Cloudflare

Consolidates many edge services under one platform: DNS, Load Balancing, caching, image optimization, serverless functions
Massive edge network that can handle large DDoS attacks
Very generous free tier, affordable paid plans

Google Cloud

Extensive range of managed services with a focus on big data and machine learning
BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are widely considered industry-leading solutions
Strong community and developer tooling
40+ data centers around the world

Price comparison

How do Cloudflare's prices compare against Google Cloud?

Example configuration	Cloudflare	Google Cloud
VM Small	--	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Medium	--	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Large	--	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
Block Storage	--	$4.10 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$19.86 / mo 1 TB	$24.93 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$29.44 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)
Serverless 25M Executions	$82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	--	Depends on service
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Free for most services	$111.60

GCP offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	Total GPU Memory	vCPUs	RAM	Price per hour
g2-standard-4	1x L4	24GB	4	16GB	$0.71
g2-standard-8	1x L4	24GB	8	32GB	$0.85
g2-standard-12	1x L4	24GB	12	48GB	$1.00
g2-standard-16	1x L4	24GB	16	64GB	$1.15
g2-standard-32	1x L4	24GB	32	128GB	$1.73
g2-standard-24	2x L4	48GB	24	96GB	$2.00
a2-highgpu-1g	1x A100	40GB	12	85GB	$3.67
g2-standard-48	4x L4	96GB	48	192GB	$4.00
a2-highgpu-2g	2x A100	80GB	24	170GB	$7.35
g2-standard-96	8x L4	192GB	96	384GB	$8.00
a2-highgpu-4g	4x A100	160GB	48	340GB	$14.69
a2-highgpu-8g	8x A100	320GB	96	680GB	$29.39
a2-megagpu-16g	16x A100	640GB	96	1360GB	$55.74

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Cloudflare and Google Cloud offer:

Service	Cloudflare	Google Cloud
Block Storage	--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry	--
GPU-powered Servers	--
Load Balancer
Managed Containers	--
Managed Kubernetes	--
Managed MySQL	--
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Managed Redis®*	--
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)	--

Company details

	Cloudflare	Google Cloud
Website	cloudflare.com	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2008
Data Center Locations	285	40
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

	Cloudflare
Website	cloudflare.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009
Data Center Locations	285
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify

	Google Cloud
Website	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	40
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank