Cloudflare vs RunPod

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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

RunPod

Affordable GPUs in various configurations
Packed with features: hot-reloading, managed containers, logging & monitoring
Available in 30+ regions across the world

Price comparison

How do Cloudflare's prices compare against RunPod?

Example configuration	Cloudflare	RunPod
VM Small	--	$43.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Medium	--	$86.40 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Large	--	$172.80 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
Block Storage	--	$10.00 / mo 100 GB
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

RunPod offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
A30	1x A30	24GB	8	31GB	$0.22	Source
RTX A4000	1x A4000	16GB	4	20GB	$0.32	Source
A4500	1x A4500	20GB	4	29GB	$0.34	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	4	24GB	$0.36	Source
A40	1x A40	48GB	9	50GB	$0.39	Source
RTX4090	1x RTX 4090	24GB	5	30GB	$0.69	Source
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	62GB	$0.76	Source
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	12	62GB	$0.86	Source
A6000 Ada	1x A6000	48GB	14	58GB	$0.88	Source
L40	1x L40S	48GB	8	94GB	$0.99	Source
A100 PCIe	1x A100	80GB	8	117GB	$1.64	Source
A100 SXM	1x A100	80GB	16	125GB	$1.89	Source
MI250	1x MI250	128GB	--	--	$2.10	Source
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	16	188GB	$2.39	Source
H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	16	125GB	$2.99	Source
MI300X	1x MI300X	192GB	24	283GB	$2.99	Source
H200 SXM	1x H200	141GB	--	--	$3.99	Source

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 RunPod offer:

Service	Cloudflare	RunPod
Block Storage	--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
GPU-powered Servers	--
Load Balancer		--
Managed Containers	--
Object Storage		--
Serverless Cron Jobs		--
Serverless Functions		--
Static Sites		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)	--

Company details

	Cloudflare	RunPod
Website	cloudflare.com	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2022
Data Center Locations	285	24
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu

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

	RunPod
Website	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2022
Data Center Locations	24
Example Customers	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu