WAF Cybersecurity vs Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a powerful self-serve platform — if you have the time and expertise to configure and maintain it. WAF Cybersecurity is the opposite: an enterprise AWS WAF that we provision, tune, and watch for you. Here's how they compare for protecting a business website.
- Price
- WAF Cybersecurity
- $150 / site / month
- Cloudflare Business
- $250 / month
- Set up & tuned for you
- WAF Cybersecurity
- ✓ managed
- Cloudflare Business
- Self-serve
- Full AWS managed WAF rules
- WAF Cybersecurity
- ✓
- Cloudflare Business
- ✓
- Custom IP / geo / rate rules
- WAF Cybersecurity
- ✓
- Cloudflare Business
- ✓
- Free auto-renewing SSL
- WAF Cybersecurity
- ✓
- Cloudflare Business
- ✓
- Guided DNS setup
- WAF Cybersecurity
- Records we show, or concierge
- Cloudflare Business
- You edit the zone
- Attack-spike email + Slack/webhook
- WAF Cybersecurity
- ✓ included
- Cloudflare Business
- ✓
- Bot management
- WAF Cybersecurity
- Included when you turn it on, in count
- Cloudflare Business
- Add-on / you configure
- Account-fraud protection
- WAF Cybersecurity
- Available after you set the path
- Cloudflare Business
- You configure
- Products to learn
- WAF Cybersecurity
- Just WAF
- Cloudflare Business
- 30+
- 99.9% edge SLA
- WAF Cybersecurity
- ✓ service credits
- Cloudflare Business
- See their terms
Cloudflare Business public list for new customers (2026): $250 / month per zone, or $200/mo equivalent on annual prepay ($2,400/year). Need a CDN, Workers, or Zero Trust? That's Cloudflare. Managed and OWASP rulesets are also on Pro. What we sell is the decision workflow: start in count, then you click Promote. If you just need the site protected, you're here. Our 99.9% edge SLA: /sla.
Self-serve dashboard vs done-for-you
With Cloudflare you sign up, point your DNS, and then own every decision: which rules to enable, what to put in block vs log, how to handle false positives, and when to tune. That flexibility is great for engineering teams and a burden for everyone else.
WAF Cybersecurity runs on AWS WAF. We provision the firewall and start four baseline groups in count: common attacks, known exploits, SQL injection, and malicious IPs. Bot management and account-fraud protection are available after you set them up. They are not on for a new site. The Advisor names Promote, Hold, or Needs allowlist. You still click once.
What you actually manage
Cloudflare's Managed Rules and OWASP rulesets are available on Pro as well as Business. Bot management is a separate add-on, and you still choose what to log, what to block, and when to tune.
On WAF Cybersecurity the baseline groups start in count. Bot management and account-takeover or account-creation fraud are available after you configure the path — they are not turned on with the baseline. The price is one flat rate. You get one screen for the count window, and you can request a tuning review when a Hold stays. Managed means that request plus your Promote click. We are not watching every site around the clock.
Pricing and transparency
WAF Cybersecurity is $150/site/month, fully managed, with included bandwidth and clear pass-through pricing if you exceed it. Free auto-renewing SSL is included.
Cloudflare Business lists at $250 / month per zone for new customers, or $200/mo equivalent on annual prepay ($2,400/year). That is a 30-product platform you configure yourself.
If you want a platform to operate yourself, Cloudflare is excellent. If you want website protection handled for you, that's what we do.