The Cloudflare Alternative: That Runs Inside Your Cloud, Cluster or Data Centre
Cloudflare protects traffic at its edge. Prophaze deploys WAF, API security, bot and DDoS protection where your apps actually run, so internal APIs, east-west traffic and data-residency workloads get the same protection as your public sites.
- Deploys in your VPC, Kubernetes cluster or on-prem
- Inspects internal and east-west API traffic
- Data stays in your jurisdiction, air-gapped ready
- Bot, API & DDoS protection , not sold as as add-ons
Why Choose Prophaze as Your Cloudflare alternative
Why teams running Kubernetes, hybrid and regulated workloads choose Prophaze. AI-driven WAF, shadow API discovery from live traffic, bot mitigation, L7 DDoS protection, load balancing, data masking and native SIEM integration, in one platform.
Deploy where your data has to stay
Run Prophaze on AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid, on-prem or fully air-gapped. Traffic is inspected inside your environment, so you can meet RBI, SEBI, DPDP, SAMA and NCA data-residency requirements without routing through a third-party edge. availability and no single point of failure.
Protect the API Cloudflare never sees Protection
Most API traffic in a microservices estate is internal. Prophaze’s Local Application Firewall sits beside your workloads and applies the same policies to private APIs and east-west calls as to public endpoints. Cloudflare Tunnel controls access to private apps; Prophaze inspects what happens inside them.
Kubernetes-native, not Kubernetes-compatible
Deploy as an ingress controller or in-cluster, manage policies through a full API and Git, and let AI profiling select and tune rules as your services change.
Prophaze vs Cloudflare: Feature by Feature Comparison
Compare the capabilities that matter when evaluating a modern WAAP platform, from architecture and deployment flexibility to API security, threat detection, and operational visibility.
| Prophaze | Cloudflare | |
|---|---|---|
| Where does inspection happen? | In your cloud, cluster or data centre | On Cloudflare’s global edge |
| On-prem and air-gapped deployment | Supported | Not available (SaaS edge) |
| Data residency | Traffic never leaves your environment | Regional controls via Data Localization Suite; traffic is processed on Cloudflare’s network |
| Kubernetes | Native ingress and in-cluster deployment | Fronts cluster from edge |
| API discovery | From OpenAPI specs and live traffic, internal and external | API Shield discovery on traffic proxied through Cloudflare |
| Packaging | WAF, API, bot and DDoS in one platform | Bot Management and advanced API Shield are Enterprise add-ons |
| Support model | Dedicated CSM and TAM | Varies by plan |
| Global CDN and edge performance | Not a CDN; works alongside your existing CDN | Global Anycast network and CDN |
Switch from Cloudflare to Prophaze in Three Steps
Onboard applications, APIs, and microservices into Prophaze WAF-as-a-Service in minutes using flexible connection patterns and guided workflows, so teams can ship features without waiting on security projects.
Deploy where your apps run
Install as a Kubernetes ingress controller, reverse proxy or LAF on AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid or on-prem. Cloudflare can stay in front.
Discover your real APIs surface
AI profiling maps documented and shadow APIs from specs and live traffic, including internal endpoints, and learns normal behaviour.
Turn on protection
WAF, API security, bot and DDoS policies go live with AI-selected rules. Move public traffic over whenever you’re ready.
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Trusted by Teams Running Business-Critical Platforms
Prophaze WAAP protects applications for global SaaS platforms, financial institutions, healthcare providers and government systems where downtime is not an option.
Cloudflare alternative FAQs
Can I run Prophaze alongside Cloudflare?
Yes. Keep Cloudflare for CDN and edge, and deploy Prophaze inside your environment for internal apps, private APIs and data-residency workloads.
Can Prophaze be deployed on-prem or air-gapped?
Yes, with no dependency on an external edge network.
Will I lose performance without a global edge network?
Prophaze inspects traffic where your apps run, so there’s no extra hop for internal traffic. For public sites, keep your existing CDN in front.
How does Prophaze reduce WAF false positives compared to a traditional WAF?
AI-powered application profiling and behavioral analysis automatically select and tune rules, so teams spend less time on manual exceptions.
Does Prophaze WAAP support compliance and audit requirements?
Prophaze provides granular attack logs, role-based access management and SIEM integration to support audit and monitoring needs. Ask our team about the frameworks you must meet.
Can Prophaze WAAP fit into our existing CI/CD and DevSecOps workflow?
Yes. A full API manages policies, rules and tenants, so you can keep configs in Git and promote changes through pull requests.
Does Prophaze offer a WAAP option for MSPs, MSSPs, or usage-based pricing?
Prophaze supports multi-tenant deployments with tenant isolation, which suits MSPs and MSSPs. Contact us to discuss usage-based options.
Keep Cloudflare at the edge. Close the gaps it can’t reach
- Protect web applications and APIs from modern attacks
- Stop exploits, bots and Layer 7 abuse with one platform
- Deploy fast with no engineering overhead
