Cloudflare vs Paperspace

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
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

Paperspace

Competitive GPU prices
Managed platform, from notebooks to container-based clusters
Free ingress and egress

Price comparison

How do Cloudflare's prices compare against Paperspace?

Example configuration	Cloudflare	Paperspace
Object Storage	$19.86 / mo 1 TB	--
Serverless 25M Executions	$82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Free for most services	Free and unlimited Burst up to 10 Gbps, then soft capped at 900 Mbps

Paperspace offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GPU+ (M4000)	1x M4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.45	Source
P4000	1x P4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.51	Source
RTX4000	1x RTX 4000	24GB	8	30GB	$0.56	Source
P5000	1x P5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.78	Source
A4000	1x A4000	16GB	8	45GB	$0.80	Launch
RTX5000	1x RTX 5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.82	Source
P6000	1x P6000	24GB	8	30GB	$1.10	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	8	45GB	$1.42	Launch
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	45GB	$1.93	Launch
V100-32G	1x V100	32GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
V100	1x V100	16GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
A100	1x A100	40GB	8	90GB	$3.19	Launch
A100-80G	1x A100	80GB	8	90GB	$3.28	Launch
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	16	268GB	$5.99	Launch

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 managed services that Cloudflare and Paperspace offer:

Service	Cloudflare	Paperspace
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
GPU-powered Servers	--
Load Balancer		--
Object Storage		--
Serverless Cron Jobs		--
Serverless Functions		--
Static Sites		--

Company details

	Cloudflare	Paperspace
Website	cloudflare.com	paperspace.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2014
Data Center Locations	285	3
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando

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

	Paperspace
Website	paperspace.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2014
Data Center Locations	3
Example Customers	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando