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Up to $350,000 in credits

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Get up to $350,000 in Cloudflare credits ($10,000 for bootstrapped startups, up to $350,000 for funded ones) plus Pro and Business plans at no cost for a year through Cloudflare for Startups, protect your startup with enterprise-grade DDoS protection, CDN, and Web Application Firewall.

What you get

  • Cloudflare Pro free for 12 months
  • DDoS protection (unlimited)
  • Global CDN (200+ PoPs)
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Image optimization and Polish

Who can claim it

New Cloudflare Pro subscriber

Questions

Is Cloudflare free for startups?

Cloudflare has a permanent Free plan at $0, and the Cloudflare for Startups program adds credits on top. Tier 3 gives $10,000 in credits for bootstrapped or self-funded startups with under $1M raised. Credits last one year or until used up. Tier 2 ($100,000) and Tier 1 ($350,000) need funding from a Cloudflare-affiliated partner.

What do the Cloudflare startup credits cover?

They are deducted for usage-based services such as Workers, Durable Objects, Workflows, KV, D1, Queues, Vectorize, Pages, Images, Stream, Cache Reserve and Argo Smart Routing. R2 is covered up to $10,000, and Workers AI up to $2,500 on Tier 3. AI Gateway and domain registration fees are not covered.

Who is eligible for Cloudflare for Startups?

Your company must be incorporated within the last 10 years, funded up to Series B, building a technology product, and have a live public website. You also need an active LinkedIn, X or GitHub presence and a business email matching your domain. You must never have been approved before. Consultancies, agencies, MSPs, resellers, personal blogs and schools are excluded.

What do the Cloudflare Pro and Business plans cost without the program?

Pro is $20 a month billed annually or $25 billed monthly. Business is $200 a month billed annually or $250 billed monthly. The program page says Business and Pro plans on your enterprise domains are included at no cost during the program.

How much is the Workers paid plan?

The Workers Paid plan has a minimum charge of $5 a month per account. It includes 10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds a month, then charges $0.30 per extra million requests and $0.02 per extra million CPU milliseconds. Cloudflare's docs say there is no charge for data transfer.

What happens when the startup credits run out?

Credits end after one year or when used up, and Cloudflare says it cannot extend them. You can move to a self-serve plan from the dashboard. Enterprise domains you do not move to a paid plan revert to the Free plan. Cloudflare sends three reminders before graduation.