We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Prolexic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is that it has a free version. They give us the free version with the anti-DDoS features and also the load balancing solution."
"There are key things that are used for our enterprise customers, such as Lambda and DNS."
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"The simplicity of the overall dashboard makes it a great product for a user like me who has less understanding of the internet than a developer or other more technical people. It gives me peace of mind. I also love the easy customization of the Page Rules."
"Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications."
"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."
"The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The solution does not have hardware or maintenance requirements and is very easy to scale."
"For the free and Pro plans, Cloudflare could use a simple bot to provide information to users. This would improve support, especially for less advanced users who utilize the free components."
"It should confirm audit findings of the assigned area with auditees to ensure that the audit conclusions are based on an accurate understanding of the issues."
"The solution could use more analytics on the backend to give us more insights into everything. More reports would be helpful."
"Cloudflare does not have an on-premise solution. If they had different approaches they could be better suited to accommodate more customers, such as on-premise and hybrid deployments. For example, hybrid deployments would be useful where you could move the traffic from the enterprise to the cloud."
"Support response time could be improved."
"Cloudflare could offer a better view or maybe dashboards of the main resources used in the client."
"The product needs to improve its automation."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The solution needs additional product options for small and medium enterprises."
Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 57 reviews while Prolexic is ranked 14th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 4 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Prolexic is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prolexic writes "Scaling is very easy but more options are needed for enterprise environments". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, whereas Prolexic is most compared with Cloudflare DDoS, Akamai App and API Protector, Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Lumen DDoS Mitigation.
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