Cloudflare vs VK Cloud Comparison

Why choose Cloudflare

• Has a free plan (VK Cloud does not)
• Higher Cost score (9/10 vs 6/10)
• Higher Integration score (8/10 vs 6/10)
• Better fit for startups (9/10 vs 5/10)
• Better fit for developers (9/10 vs 7/10)

Why choose VK Cloud

• Higher Support score (6/10 vs 4/10)

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.

VK Cloud

Pros

• Inbound and outbound traffic is not charged, so bandwidth-heavy workloads have more predictable bills.
• Wide range of managed databases, including ClickHouse, Tarantool, Postgres Pro and Arenadata DB.
• Reported 152-FZ UZ-1 personal data compliance for workloads that must stay in Russia.
• Fine-grained billing: per minute for compute and per second for databases.

Cons

• Rates are not shown in the documentation; buyers have to use the price list or calculator.
• No independent benchmarks of latency, availability or disk performance.
• Risk of lock-in through proprietary interfaces and quotas.
• Storage, snapshots and forgotten test environments can push costs up if not tracked.