Cloudflare Zero Trust review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Business VPN / ZTNA median 2.5
- Business VPN / ZTNA
- Jurisdiction:USA, 5 Eyes
- Owner:Cloudflare, Inc.
- Data completeness53%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Trial without a card
- Free plan
Red flag: Stores connection IP addresses. A red flag caps the score at 6.0.
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Platforms and support4.8 vs 3.9
- Censorship bypass0.5 vs 0.5
- Security and protocols1.8 vs 1.8
Weakest against its segment
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.3
- Network and streaming1.0 vs 2.8
- Price and fair terms2.5 vs 3.4
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
- Stores session times
- Stores connection IP addresses
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Business VPN / ZTNA services in the main ranking (None services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
Cloudflare Zero Trustsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.30.0
What earned points
- No-logs policy +2
- Independent no-logs audit +3
- No-logs confirmed in court +1
- Warrant canary +1
- Transparency report +1
- Sign-up without email +1.5
- Account number sign-up +0.5
- Stores connection IP (penalty) −3
- Public incident (penalty) −2
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Security and protocols20% of the score · segment median 1.81.8
What earned points
- Kill switch +2
- DNS leak protection +1.5
- RAM-only servers +1
- Post-quantum encryption +1
- Perfect forward secrecy +0.5
- Security audit +2
- Open-source clients +1.5
- 2FA +1
- Multi-hop +1
- Bug bounty +1
- Only PPTP / L2TP (penalty) −2
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Price and fair terms15% of the score · segment median 3.42.5
What earned points
- Free plan +1.5
- Free trial +1
- Trial without a card +1
- Crypto payments +1
- Cash payments +0.5
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Censorship bypass15% of the score · segment median 0.50.5
What earned points
- Stealth / obfuscation +2
- VLESS / Reality +1.5
- Trojan +1
- Hysteria2 +1
- Shadowsocks +1
- AmneziaWG +1
- obfs4 +0.5
- TUIC +0.5
- NaiveProxy +0.5
- Mirrors or Telegram channel +0.5
- VoIP in the UAE (claimed) +0.5
- Manual configs +0.5
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Network and streaming10% of the score · segment median 2.81.0
What earned points
- 10 Gbps servers +1
- Dedicated IP +0.5
- Port forwarding +0.5
- MENA locations +0.5
- Torrenting allowed +1
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Platforms and support10% of the score · segment median 3.94.8
What earned points
- Routers +1
- Browser extensions +0.5
- Split tunneling +1
- Ad / tracker blocker +1
- 24/7 live chat +2
- live chat +0.5
- Support on Telegram +0.5
- Status page +0.5
Cloudflare Zero Trust pricing
The cheapest way in is €6.02 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, Cloudflare Zero Trust renews at its standard price. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Price per month over 3 years, Pay-as-you-go, per user plan
first termrenewalmarket median €3.13/momonths →
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep Cloudflare Zero Trust running: the first term, then renewals at the published renewal price. Where no renewal price is published, plans shorter than a year are counted as repeat payments at the current price; longer plans show a dash after their term. Converted to euros at the rates used in our data (1 USD = €0.86). The lowest cost for each period is marked.
| Plan and first term | First payment | Then | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go, per user, 1 mo | €6.02 | €6.02 / 1 mo | €72.24 | €144.48 | €216.72 |
Compare Cloudflare Zero Trust’s full cost with other VPNs, for any number of devices
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term | Per month | € / month | Renewal price | Renewal term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 mo | $0.00 | $0.00 | €0.00 | $0.00 | 1 mo |
| Pay-as-you-go, per user | 1 mo | $7.00 | $7.00 | €6.02 | $7.00 | 1 mo |
| Contract | 12 mo | custom | — | — | custom | 12 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Card needed for trial
- No free plan
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- How to cancel
- dashboard
- Payment methods
- card (self-serve, implied); contract invoicing
- Renewal note
- PAYG monthly per user; Contract annual custom
Everything Cloudflare Zero Trust publishes
Every fact we collected about Cloudflare Zero Trust, as the provider and reviewers state it. Empty fields are left out; key fields we could not find say “Not stated”. “Partial”: only on some platforms, servers or plans.
Company
- Legal entity
- Cloudflare, Inc.
- Registered in
- USA
- Address
- 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
- Related brands
- Cloudflare One
- 1.1.1.1/WARP
- Cloudflare Tunnel
- Cloudflare WAN
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- 5
- Website languages
- Not stated
- Currencies on the site
- USD
- Prices depend on country
- No USD in browser geo
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Free
- Pay-as-you-go
- Contract (Cloudflare One SASE packages)
- Billing terms
- monthly (PAYG); annual (Contract)
- Cheapest price a month
- 0 (≤50 users); 7/user
- Monthly plan
- 7 per user
- Lifetime plan
- No
- Renewal
- PAYG monthly per user; Contract annual custom
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Business price per user
- $7/user/month (PAYG); custom annual (Contract)
- Business minimum seats
- none (Free ≤50 users)
- Other add-ons
- Log Explorer
- Remote Browser Isolation
- full DLP & unlimited CASB (Contract)
- email security
- network services (WAN/Firewall)
- professional services
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- No
- Sale running when checked
- No
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Not stated
- Features locked to higher plans
- log retention 24h/30d/6mo
- RBI add-on not on Free
- email security Contract only
- phone support Contract
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes $0 forever, up to 50 users
- Free data
- Not stated
- Free locations
- all network
- Free devices
- 50 users
- Ads in the free plan
- No
- Other free plan terms
- 24h log retention
- community support
- ZTNA, SWG, DEX, CASB (2 read-only API integrations), limited DLP
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- card (self-serve, implied); contract invoicing
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Apple Pay / Google Pay
- No
- Cryptocurrency
- No
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Not stated
- How to cancel
- dashboard
- Email needed to sign up
- Yes
- Account-number login
- No
- Identity check (KYC)
- No
- Money-back guarantee, days
- Not stated
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- Not stated
- Where the trial is offered
- site
- Trial limits
- 50 users
- Instead of a trial
- Free plan for PoC
- Card needed for the trial
- No free plan
Server locations
- Countries
- Not stated
- Servers
- 335+ cities (SASE network)
- Cities
- 335+
- Server countries
- Not stated
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- Virtual locations
- No
- Own servers
- Yes own global network
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Not stated
- Dedicated IP
- Not stated
- Static IP
- Not stated
- Residential IP
- No
- Double VPN / multi-hop
- Not stated
- Tor over VPN
- No
- SOCKS5 proxy
- No
- Smart DNS
- No
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuardNot stated
- OpenVPN✕ No
- IKEv2Not stated
- L2TP/IPsecNo
- SSTPNo
- SoftEther✕ No
- Own protocolWARP device client; app connector (Tunnel)✓ Yes
- VLESS / Reality✕ No
- VMess✕ No
- Trojan✕ No
- Shadowsocks✕ No
- Hysteria2✕ No
- TUIC✕ No
- NaiveProxy✕ No
- obfs4✕ No
- AmneziaWG✕ No
- PPTP✓ No
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes API; Terraform provider
- Open-source apps
- Not stated
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- No
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- No
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Own DNS servers
- Yes Gateway DNS filtering / 1.1.1.1
- Split tunnelling
- Not stated
- Ad and malware blocker
- Yes SWG/Gateway filtering
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Yes Report Security Issues link
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Not stated
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Data retention
- logs up to 24h (Free) / 30d (PAYG) / 6 months (Contract)
- Shared with third parties
- Logpush to customer SIEM/storage
- Trackers on the website
- Yes cookie banner: analytics, marketing
- Transparency report
- Yes linked
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Law enforcement requests
- transparency report linked
- Anonymous sign-up
- No
- GDPR / data protection officer
- GDPR page linked
What the privacy policy says is collected
Yes: collected. No: not collected. Partial: kept briefly or only in part. Not stated: the policy does not say.
- Email✕ Yes
- Connection IPadmin logs✕ Yes
- Session timeslogs✕ Yes
- Bandwidthnetwork flow monitoring✕ Yes
- Device infoDEX✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windowsdevice client✓ Yes
- macOSdevice client✓ Yes
- Linuxdevice client✓ Yes
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✓ Yes
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TV✕ No
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TV✕ No
- RoutersNot stated
- NAS✕ No
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consoles✕ No
- Browser extensions
- No clientless/RBI add-on
Speed, streaming and gaming
- Claimed speed
- No
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Speed test in the app
- No
- Netflix
- No
- BBC iPlayer
- No
- Disney+
- No
- Prime Video
- No
- DAZN
- No
- beIN Sports
- No
- Shahid
- No
- OSN+
- No
- Gaming features
- Not stated
- Torrenting
- Not stated
Support
- Live chat
- Yes PAYG/Contract chat support
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes tickets PAYG+
- Phone
- Yes Contract only
- Telegram
- No
- No
- Discord or forum
- Yes community forum, Developers Discord
- Help articles
- Yes Help center, developer docs
- Server status page
- Yes https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
- Uptime guarantee (SLA)
- 100% uptime SLA (PAYG, Contract)
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Not stated
- Admin panel
- Yes unified dashboard
- API
- Yes API, Terraform
- Dedicated gateway
- No cloud-delivered
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Yes ZTNA, SWG, CASB, DLP, RBI, FWaaS — single-vendor SASE
What users say
Reviews never change our score. Ratings are smoothed: a source’s average across all VPNs counts as 50 extra reviews, so a few five-star reviews cannot outrank thousands.
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Trustpilot
1.92 of 5, smoothed
From 200 collected reviews (raw average 1.48; all VPNs 3.66). Last 90 days: 1.58 from 62.
The company replied to 0 of 174 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
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App Store
3.33 of 5, smoothed
From 28 collected reviews (raw average 2.96; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 3.00 from 4.
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Trustpilot TrustScore 1.5 (1284 reviews); App Store (US) 3.81 (104 ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
32 Reddit and forum threads mention Cloudflare Zero Trust (titles and search snippets only).
Latest reviews and related rankings
Latest reviews
Short excerpts with a link to the original. We do not reproduce reviews in full.
App Store · 5★ · 09 Oct 2026 · US
Need tvOS and more versions
App Store · 5★ · 10 Sep 2026 · GB
admin
App Store · 1★ · 17 Aug 2026 · US
无法使用
Trustpilot · 2★ · 14 Oct 2026 · US
I have been loyal to Cloudflare for my…
Original reviewTrustpilot · 4★ · 12 Oct 2026 · US
Good service (when it's not down)
Original reviewTrustpilot · 1★ · 11 Oct 2026 · DE
Hallo,wieso können sie über Paypal Geld…
Original review
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about Cloudflare Zero Trust
Answers built from what Cloudflare Zero Trust publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Cloudflare Zero Trust alternatives: similar VPNs ranked by our score
7 alternatives to Cloudflare Zero Trust (1.38) from the same segment, by features, price and owner. Highest: Cloudflare WARP (1.1.1.1) (1.80).
Alternatives to Cloudflare Zero Trust
| # | Service | Score | Why it is here | From | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare WARP (1.1.1.1) | 1.80 | same owner | same owner | — |
| 2 | Cloudflare Tunnel / Zero Trust | 1.38 | similar features | similar features | — |
| 3 | Accops | 1.19 | similar features | similar features | — |
| 4 | remote.it | 1.05 | similar features | similar features | €8.60per month |
| 5 | RingLink | 1.05 | similar features | similar features | — |
| 6 | Zscaler Private Access | 0.80 | similar features | similar features | — |
| 7 | Array Networks SSL VPN | 0.76 | similar features | similar features | — |
In our rankings
Cloudflare Zero Trust appears on 3 topic pages. Its place on each:
Similar VPNs
Same owner
Owner and jurisdiction
Closed services Cloudflare Zero Trust replaces
Services that shut down or moved, for which this is one of five live alternatives.
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://cloudflare.com
- Pages checked
- https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/zero-trust-services/ (webfetch + browser); https://www.cloudflare.com/zero-trust/
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