Cloudflare vs Shakti Cloud Comparison
Compare Cloudflare vs Shakti Cloud features, pricing, and more.
Last updated: November 2026
Cloudflare
7.6/10
Cloudflare is a global edge network. It offers CDN, DNS, DDoS protection and a WAF, plus serverless compute and storage (Workers, R2, D1) for developers and businesses.
Shakti Cloud
6.1/10
Shakti Cloud is Yotta Data Services' sovereign GPU cloud in India. It offers H100, L40S and B200 virtual machines, bare metal, clusters and serverless inference for AI teams.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | | |
|---|---|---|
| Scores | ||
| Overall Rating | 7.6/10 | 6.1/10 |
| Integration | 8/10 | 6/10 |
| Support | 4/10 | 5/10 |
| Cost | 9/10 | 5/10 |
| Customization | 8/10 | 7/10 |
| Security | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Reliability | 7/10 | 7/10 |
| Ease of Use | 7/10 | 5/10 |
| Analytics | 7/10 | 4/10 |
| Scalability | 9/10 | 8/10 |
| Pricing | ||
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Cheapest paid plan | $5/mo Workers Paid | ₹197,000/mo AI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
| Estimated cost for 10 users | Free Free | ₹197,000/mo AI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
| Features | ||
| Dedicated Servers | ||
| Serverless Functions | ||
| API and CLI | Not listed | |
| Cloud Compute | Not listed | |
| Content Delivery Network | Not listed | |
| DDoS Protection | Not listed | |
| Free SSL Certificates | Not listed | |
| Managed Databases | Not listed | |
| Managed Kubernetes | Not listed | |
| Multiple Regions | Not listed | |
| Object Storage | Not listed | |
| Shared Hosting | Not listed | |
| Uptime SLA | Not listed | |
Cloudflare vs Shakti Cloud cost by team size
| Team size | Cloudflare | Shakti Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| 1 user | FreeFree | ₹197,000/moAI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
| 5 users | FreeFree | ₹197,000/moAI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
| 10 users | FreeFree | ₹197,000/moAI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
| 25 users | FreeFree | ₹197,000/moAI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
| 50 users | FreeFree | ₹197,000/moAI Lab (1x H100 80GB workstation) |
The plan that fits each team size, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges. Each cost opens that tool's pricing calculator for the team size.
Which One Should You Choose?
Why choose Cloudflare
- Has a free plan (Shakti Cloud does not)
- Higher Cost score (9/10 vs 5/10)
- Higher Analytics score (7/10 vs 4/10)
- Better fit for developers (9/10 vs 6/10)
- Better fit for startups (9/10 vs 6/10)
Why choose Shakti Cloud
- Higher Support score (5/10 vs 4/10)
- Includes Dedicated Servers, which Cloudflare lacks
Pros & Cons
Cloudflare
Pros
- The free plan includes unmetered DDoS protection, a CDN, a WAF and universal SSL.
- R2 object storage charges no egress fees.
- Workers has very low entry pricing: a $5 monthly minimum and $0.30 per additional million requests.
- The Business plan adds a 100 percent uptime SLA and PCI DSS compliance for $200 a month billed annually.
Cons
- Reviewers report slow support on Free and Pro, which have no chat or phone support.
- Global outages in November and December 2025 disrupted many sites at the same time.
- Reviewers report billing problems, such as charges after cancelling add-ons.
- It offers no traditional shared hosting, VPS or dedicated servers, so you still need an origin host for conventional workloads.
Shakti Cloud
Pros
- It publishes INR prices for VMs, bare metal and clusters, so Indian buyers avoid exchange-rate risk and can estimate costs without a sales call.
- Data centres in Navi Mumbai and Greater Noida keep data in India for DPDP Act compliance.
- It covers the full range from hourly single-GPU VMs to 256-plus-GPU H100 clusters over InfiniBand, as one of NVIDIA's Cloud Partners.
- Unlimited ingress and egress are included on VMs, and data transfer is included on bare metal and clusters.
- It bundles NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NIM, plus OpenAI-compatible serverless endpoints for hosted open models.
Cons
- The on-demand H100 VM, at 356 rupees per hour, costs more than Cyfuture AI (329) and JarvisLabs (about 330), according to a comparison article.
- It is limited to GPU and AI workloads. It has no general web hosting, managed databases, object storage pricing or CDN.
- InfiniBand and the Kubernetes control plane cost extra, and term discounts are not published.
- Independent user reviews are scarce, and sources disagree on whether access is self-serve or quote-based.
Not sold on either?
Frequently Asked Questions
Cloudflare scores higher on our Hosting & Infrastructure criteria: 7.6/10 against 6.1/10 for Shakti Cloud. The largest gap is in Cost: 9/10 for Cloudflare and 5/10 for Shakti Cloud.
Cloudflare has a free plan; Shakti Cloud does not list one.
Cloudflare is the better fit for developers: we rate it 9/10 for them, against 6/10 for Shakti Cloud.
Shakti Cloud has Dedicated Servers, which Cloudflare lacks.
