The Basics
Cloudflare
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Google Cloud
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|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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Cloudflare
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|
|---|---|
| Website | cloudflare.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Data Center Locations | 285 |
| Example Customers | Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify |
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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 |
Cost 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 |
Note: These 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
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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) | -- |
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Our data for Cloudflare was last updated on Feb. 9, 2024, and for Google Cloud on Feb. 10, 2024.