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Cloudflare vs Shadeform

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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

Shadeform

Launch instances anywhere with a single console and API
Leverage a multi-cloud set up, without the hassle
You can reserve instances in advance to ensure GPU availability
Free to use, zero mark-up fees

Price comparison

How do Cloudflare's prices compare against Shadeform?

Example configuration	Cloudflare	Shadeform
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	--

Shadeform does not charge any fees to use their marketplace. You pay the same price as using the cloud providers directly.

Here are some example configurations:

GPU	VRAM	Price range (per hour)
Nvidia A4000	16 GB	$0.30-0.80
Nvidia A6000	48 GB	$0.57-1.93
Nvidia V100	16 GB	$0.69-3.06
Nvidia L40S	48 GB	$0.99-1.15
Nvidia A100	40 GB	$1.29-3.19
Nvidia H100	80 GB	$2.48-5.99

You can view the full list here.

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.

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Which services do they offer?

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

Service	Cloudflare	Shadeform
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	Shadeform
Website	cloudflare.com	shadeform.ai
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2023
Data Center Locations	285	--
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify	University of California Berkeley, Magic Studio, Neets.ai, MK1

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

	Shadeform
Website	shadeform.ai
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2023
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	University of California Berkeley, Magic Studio, Neets.ai, MK1