Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Rate Limiting by Cloudflare
Protect against DDoS and other types of abusive behavior
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Rate Limiting by Cloudflare launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The Internet’s fastest, privacy-first DNS resolver
2018 · one.one.one.one · its alternatives →
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The 1.1.1.1 App▲689Faster, more private internet by Cloudflare, now on mobile
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Free, privacy-focused web analytics.
2020 · dash.cloudflare.com · its alternatives →
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Safeguard from service interruptions
2017 · cloudflare.com · its alternatives →
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Bucket4J▲77Rate-limiting based on token bucket algorithm for Java
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cloudflare Drop▲367Drop your folder in browser & deploy instantly on Cloudflare
Jul 2026 · cloudflare.com · its alternatives →
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No AI crawl without compensation! ✊
2025 · cloudflare.com · its alternatives →
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NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
2019 · nextdns.io · its alternatives →
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I run 3mins.news (https://3mins.news), an AI news aggregator built entirely on Cloudflare Workers. The backend has 10+ cron triggers running every few minutes: RSS fetching, article clustering, LLM calls, email delivery. The problem: Workers Paid Plan has hard monthly limits (10M requests, 1M KV writes, 1M queue ops, etc.). There's no built-in "pause when you hit the limit", CF just starts billing overages. KV writes cost $5/M over the cap, so a retry loop bug can get expensive fast. AWS has Budget Alerts, but those are passive notifications, by the time you read the email,…
Mar 2026 · its alternatives →
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2017 · cloudbleed.github.io · its alternatives →
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simple daemon for rate limit. Contribute to limitd/limitd development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cloud antibot and antispam protection for PHP websites
2021 · antibot.cloud · its alternatives →
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Cloudflare management made simple, right from your phone
2025 · kyno.dev · its alternatives →
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Managing traffic to protect your website during peak demands
2020 · blog.cloudflare.com · its alternatives →
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Golimit is Uber ringpop based distributed and decentralized rate limiter - myntra/golimit
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I built a distributed rate limiter using the token bucket algorithm with Redis backing. Key highlights: • 50,000+ requests/second throughput with <2ms P95 latency • Redis-backed distributed state for multi-instance deployments • 18 REST API endpoints for rate limiting, config, and monitoring • 265+ tests including load tests and integration tests • Docker/Kubernetes ready with comprehensive documentation Built with Java 21 + Spring Boot. Perfect for protecting APIs, microservices, or SaaS platforms from abuse. The pain point I solved: existing solutions were either too…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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whenever I click through to a site managed through cloudflare I end up seeing a screen asking me to identify myself. This has happened often enough especially with HN articles that I just close some articles outright and read the discussion on HN instead. As an experiment I setup cloudflare for website of mine which gets majority of its traffic from Pakistan (where I am located). This is what I see https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8037186/cloudflare.png It basically shows cloudflare marking 100% of traffic from Pakistan as known threats. I would be interested to find out if its a common problem…
2012 · dl.dropbox.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm so excited to finally share with you what I've been working on recently. One month ago I asked my audience what they wanted to learn about Websites, APIs and Servers security [0]. From the feedback, I've identified a few recurring pain points that I've started to address (and many more) in this new book. From theory to practice, you will learn how low-level network and security protocols work. How to configure Cloudflare to secure and scale your web applications. How to create serverless applications and which database to chose with serverless functions. How to optimize your…
2023 · kerkour.com · its alternatives →
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cloudflare, leaks, hack
2017 · its alternatives →
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