Cloudflare vs NHN Cloud Comparison

Why choose Cloudflare

• Has a free plan (NHN Cloud does not)
• Higher Cost score (9/10 vs 5/10)
• Higher Scalability score (9/10 vs 6/10)
• Better fit for developers (9/10 vs 6/10)

Why choose NHN 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.

NHN Cloud

Pros

• Very broad catalog for a regional provider: compute, NKS, serverless, managed RDS for four engines, CDN, security, and AI services.
• Holds CSAP certification, which suits Korean public-sector and regulated buyers.
• An official Terraform provider, published by NHN Cloud on GitHub, supports infrastructure as code.
• Korea-specific services such as KakaoTalk Bizmessage notifications and support for local databases like Tibero and CUBRID.

Cons

• Only four regions, three in Korea and one in Tokyo, so it reaches few markets outside Korea.
• The pricing pages we checked showed no per-unit rates; buyers have to use the calculator or ask for a quote.
• Documentation and console are Korean-first, and independent English-language reviews are scarce.
• Some services, such as Data Transporter and Storage Gateway, are still in alpha or beta.