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Alternatives to Cloudflare

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If you're comparing Cloudflare with other companies in Security, Networking and Cloud Infrastructure and 1 more, start here. These are the 70 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.

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Security: Cloudflare's main category

19 companies sit alongside Cloudflare here, busiest first.

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  • Cisco#6 leader in Security

    Cisco is a US networking and security company founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells enterprise, data centre and service provider networking…

    • 50 stories in the last 90 days

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  • Rapid7#14 leader in Security

    Rapid7 is a US cybersecurity company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2000. It sells the Command Platform for exposure management and threat detection and…

    • 42 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Check Point Software#7 leader in Security

    Check Point Software Technologies is an Israeli cybersecurity company founded in 1993 and headquartered in Tel Aviv. It sells network firewalls and the Quantum security gateway…

    • 25 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Microsoft#3 leader in Security

    Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…

    • 20 stories in the last 90 days

    Also in Cloud Infrastructure and Developer Tools

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  • Sophos#19 leader in Security

    Sophos is a British cybersecurity company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. It sells endpoint protection (Intercept X), firewalls, managed detection and…

    • 25 stories in the last 90 days
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  • CrowdStrike#2 leader in Security

    CrowdStrike is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch and Gregg Marston, and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its cloud-native Falcon…

    • 22 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Proofpoint#13 leader in Security

    Proofpoint is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2002. It focuses on human-centric security, with products for email security, security…

    • 23 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Wiz#11 leader in Security

    Wiz is a cloud security company founded in 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, Yinon Costica and Roy Reznik, headquartered in New York City with research and development in…

    • 30 stories in the last 90 days
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  • TrendAI#18 leader in Security

    TrendAI is the enterprise cybersecurity business of Japan's Trend Micro Incorporated, which renamed the business from Trend Micro to TrendAI in March 2026. It sells the TrendAI…

    • 19 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Zscaler#5 leader in Security

    Zscaler is a US cloud security company founded in 2007 by Jay Chaudhry and K. Kailash and headquartered in San Jose, California. Its Zero Trust Exchange platform delivers secure…

    • 18 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Palo Alto Networks#1 leader in Security

    Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company offering network security, cloud security and security operations platforms. Its portfolio includes next-generation firewalls and…

    • 26 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Qualys#16 leader in Security

    Qualys is a cloud-based cybersecurity and compliance company headquartered in Foster City, California, founded in 1999. Its Qualys Cloud Platform provides vulnerability management…

    • 17 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Tenable#15 leader in Security

    Tenable is a US cybersecurity company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. It is known for the Nessus vulnerability scanner and sells exposure management…

    • 15 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Darktrace#20 leader in Security

    Darktrace is a British cybersecurity company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Cambridge, England. It uses self-learning AI that models normal behaviour in each organisation to…

    • 11 stories in the last 90 days
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  • CyberArk#17 leader in Security

    CyberArk is an identity security company founded in Israel in 1999 by Udi Mokady and Alon N. Cohen, with headquarters in Newton, Massachusetts, and Petah Tikva, Israel. Its…

    Evidence is still building for CyberArk.

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  • Fortinet#4 leader in Security

    Fortinet is a US cybersecurity company known for its FortiGate next-generation firewalls, built on its FortiOS operating system and custom security processors. Its Fortinet…

    Evidence is still building for Fortinet.

    Also in Networking

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  • Netskope#12 leader in Security

    Netskope is a cybersecurity company that provides cloud-delivered Security Service Edge (SSE) and SASE through its Netskope One platform, combining secure web gateway, CASB, zero…

    Evidence is still building for Netskope.

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  • Okta#8 leader in Security

    Okta is an identity and access management company that provides cloud-based single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, lifecycle management and identity governance for…

    Evidence is still building for Okta.

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  • SentinelOne#9 leader in Security

    SentinelOne is a US cybersecurity company headquartered in Mountain View, California, founded in 2013. Its Singularity Platform provides AI-driven endpoint protection, extended…

    Evidence is still building for SentinelOne.

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Networking

17 companies sit alongside Cloudflare here, busiest first. 2 others are listed in an earlier section.

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  • NVIDIA#18 leader in Networking

    NVIDIA is a semiconductor and computing platform company that designs GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for AI, data centres, gaming, professional visualisation and automotive…

    • 55 stories in the last 90 days
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  • HPE#2 leader in Networking

    HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services…

    • 33 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Akamai#12 leader in Networking

    Akamai Technologies is a US content delivery, cybersecurity and cloud computing company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It operates one of the…

    • 37 stories in the last 90 days

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  • Megaport#17 leader in Networking

    Megaport is a Network as a Service (NaaS) provider that offers on-demand, software-defined connectivity between data centres, public clouds and enterprise locations. Its portfolio…

    • 23 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Infoblox#15 leader in Networking

    Infoblox is a US networking and security company specialising in DDI, the combination of DNS, DHCP and IP address management, and DNS-based security. Its products include NIOS…

    • 16 stories in the last 90 days
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  • F5#9 leader in Networking

    F5 is an American application delivery and security company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It provides load balancing, web application and API…

    • 6 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Cato Networks#13 leader in Networking

    Cato Networks is an Israeli networking and security company founded in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz and headquartered in Tel Aviv. It sells the Cato SASE Cloud platform…

    • 7 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Broadcom#19 leader in Networking

    Broadcom is a US semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, formed when Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016. It…

    • 11 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Arista Networks#3 leader in Networking

    Arista Networks is a US networking company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It sells high-speed Ethernet switches and routers running its EOS…

    Evidence is still building for Arista Networks.

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  • Aviatrix#16 leader in Networking

    Aviatrix is a US cloud networking and network security company founded in 2014. Its platform provides multicloud networking, cloud firewalling and egress security, and network…

    Evidence is still building for Aviatrix.

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  • Ciena#8 leader in Networking

    Ciena is a US networking systems and software company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Hanover, Maryland. It sells optical networking equipment including WaveLogic coherent…

    Evidence is still building for Ciena.

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  • Ericsson#5 leader in Networking

    Ericsson is a Swedish telecommunications equipment and services company founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson and headquartered in Stockholm. It supplies mobile network…

    Evidence is still building for Ericsson.

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  • Extreme Networks#7 leader in Networking

    Extreme Networks is an American networking company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina. It provides enterprise wired and wireless networking…

    Evidence is still building for Extreme Networks.

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  • Huawei#6 leader in Networking

    Huawei is a Chinese technology company that makes telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment, consumer devices, cloud services, data storage and AI processors. Its…

    Evidence is still building for Huawei.

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  • Nokia#4 leader in Networking

    Nokia is a Finnish telecommunications equipment and technology company that supplies mobile, IP, optical and fixed network infrastructure to communications service providers and…

    Evidence is still building for Nokia.

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  • Ubiquiti#14 leader in Networking

    Ubiquiti is a US networking technology company founded in 2003 by Robert Pera and headquartered in New York City. It designs networking hardware and software under the UniFi brand…

    Evidence is still building for Ubiquiti.

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  • Versa Networks#20 leader in Networking

    Versa Networks is a US networking and security company founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells VersaONE, a universal SASE platform that combines…

    Evidence is still building for Versa Networks.

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Cloud Infrastructure

16 companies sit alongside Cloudflare here, busiest first. 3 others are listed in an earlier section.

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  • Amazon Web Services#1 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and…

    • 190 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Google Cloud#3 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google…

    • 82 stories in the last 90 days
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  • CoreWeave#14 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    CoreWeave is an American AI cloud provider headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey. It operates data centres offering GPU-accelerated compute, storage and networking for training…

    • 46 stories in the last 90 days
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  • DigitalOcean#9 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    DigitalOcean is an American cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2011 by brothers Ben and Moisey Uretsky with Jeff Carr, Alec Hartman and Mitch Wainer. It offers simple…

    • 21 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Vultr#13 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    Vultr is a privately held cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2014 and headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. It offers cloud compute, bare metal servers, cloud GPUs for…

    • 27 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Equinix#15 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    Equinix is a global digital infrastructure company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It operates International Business Exchange (IBX) colocation data…

    • 20 stories in the last 90 days
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  • OVHcloud#11 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    OVHcloud is a French cloud provider offering bare-metal dedicated servers, public cloud, private cloud based on VMware and other hypervisors, web hosting, domains and managed…

    • 22 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Fastly#20 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    Fastly is an American edge cloud platform company founded in 2011 by Artur Bergman and headquartered in San Francisco. It provides a programmable content delivery network, edge…

    • 29 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Lambda#18 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    Lambda is an AI infrastructure company that provides GPU cloud computing for training and running AI models, including on-demand instances, reserved clusters and private cloud…

    • 15 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Rackspace Technology#16 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    Rackspace Technology is a US managed cloud and IT services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. It designs, migrates and operates workloads on AWS…

    • 11 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Scaleway#19 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    Scaleway is a French cloud provider headquartered in Paris and owned by the Iliad Group. It offers public cloud infrastructure including virtual instances, bare-metal servers, GPU…

    • 4 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Alibaba Cloud#6 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun, is the cloud computing business of Alibaba Group, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Hangzhou, China. It provides public cloud…

    Evidence is still building for Alibaba Cloud.

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  • Hetzner#17 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    Hetzner is a German web hosting and cloud infrastructure provider offering dedicated servers, Hetzner Cloud virtual servers, storage, colocation and web hosting at relatively low…

    Evidence is still building for Hetzner.

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  • IBM#5 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…

    Evidence is still building for IBM.

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  • Oracle#4 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It…

    Evidence is still building for Oracle.

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  • Tencent Cloud#8 leader in Cloud Infrastructure

    Tencent Cloud is the cloud computing business of Tencent Holdings, the Chinese technology company headquartered in Shenzhen. It provides infrastructure and platform services…

    Evidence is still building for Tencent Cloud.

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Developer Tools

18 companies sit alongside Cloudflare here, busiest first. 1 other is listed in an earlier section.

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  • Vercel#7 leader in Developer Tools

    Vercel is a US cloud platform company founded in 2015 by Guillermo Rauch, originally as ZEIT, and based in San Francisco. It provides a frontend cloud for building, deploying and…

    • 93 stories in the last 90 days
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  • JetBrains#3 leader in Developer Tools

    JetBrains is a software company that makes integrated development environments and developer tools, including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, GoLand and CLion, the…

    • 56 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Twilio#16 leader in Developer Tools

    Twilio is a US customer engagement platform and communications API company founded in 2008 in San Francisco. Developers use its APIs to add SMS, voice, WhatsApp and other…

    • 51 stories in the last 90 days
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  • GitHub#1 leader in Developer Tools

    GitHub is a software development platform for hosting Git repositories and collaborating on code, used by developers, open source projects and enterprises. Its products include…

    • 27 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Netlify#8 leader in Developer Tools

    Netlify is a cloud platform for building, deploying and hosting web applications and websites. It provides Git-based continuous deployment, a global edge network, serverless and…

    • 41 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Kong#17 leader in Developer Tools

    Kong is an API management and connectivity company known for Kong Gateway, an open-source API gateway, and Kong Konnect, its cloud-hosted API platform. It also develops Kong Mesh…

    • 26 stories in the last 90 days
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  • GitLab#4 leader in Developer Tools

    GitLab is a DevSecOps platform company whose single application covers source code management, CI/CD, security testing and software delivery, with AI features under GitLab Duo…

    • 40 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Postman#6 leader in Developer Tools

    Postman is an API platform company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship Postman application lets developers design, test, document, mock and monitor APIs, and…

    • 25 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Supabase#15 leader in Developer Tools

    Supabase is an open source backend development platform founded in 2020 by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson. Built around a dedicated PostgreSQL database per project, it adds…

    • 22 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Docker#14 leader in Developer Tools

    Docker, Inc. is the company behind Docker, the software that popularised Linux containers for packaging and running applications. Founded as dotCloud by Solomon Hykes and launched…

    • 15 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Snyk#12 leader in Developer Tools

    Snyk is a developer security company founded in 2015 in London and Tel Aviv and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Its AI Trust platform helps developers and security teams…

    • 27 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Sentry#13 leader in Developer Tools

    Sentry is an application monitoring company headquartered in San Francisco, California, operated by Functional Software, Inc. Its developer-first platform provides error tracking…

    • 17 stories in the last 90 days
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  • SmartBear#18 leader in Developer Tools

    SmartBear is a US software quality and API tooling company headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. Its portfolio includes Swagger and SwaggerHub for API design, ReadyAPI and…

    • 24 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Replit#10 leader in Developer Tools

    Replit is a US software company that provides a browser-based development environment and AI app-building platform. Founded in 2016 by Amjad Masad, Faris Masad and Haya Odeh…

    • 11 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Sourcegraph#11 leader in Developer Tools

    Sourcegraph is a US developer tools company founded in 2013 by Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu and based in San Francisco. It builds a code search and code intelligence platform that…

    • 6 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Atlassian#5 leader in Developer Tools

    Atlassian is a software company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. It sells team collaboration and software development tools…

    Evidence is still building for Atlassian.

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  • Cursor#9 leader in Developer Tools

    Cursor is an AI-powered code editor developed by Anysphere, a San Francisco company founded in 2022 by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger. Built as a…

    Evidence is still building for Cursor.

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  • Tricentis#19 leader in Developer Tools

    Tricentis is a software testing and quality engineering company founded in 2007 in Vienna, Austria, and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its AI-powered platform covers test…

    Evidence is still building for Tricentis.

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How this list is put together

Every company here shares at least one category with Cloudflare. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Cloudflare's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.

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