Cloudflare vs Yandex Cloud Comparison

Why choose Cloudflare

• Higher Integration score (8/10 vs 5/10)
• Higher Cost score (9/10 vs 7/10)
• Better fit for startups (9/10 vs 6/10)

Why choose Yandex Cloud

• Higher Support score (5/10 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.

Yandex Cloud

Pros

• The service catalogue is broad: VMs, Kubernetes, serverless, more than six managed database engines including ClickHouse and YDB, CDN, and backup.
• The Russia region has five availability zones, and data stays in the region where it was created.
• Native ML services such as YandexGPT and SpeechKit sit alongside the infrastructure services.
• Compliance credentials include ISO/IEC 27017 and PCI DSS across service categories.
• Entry pricing is low, with VMs from $2.85 per month and a serverless free tier.

Cons

• Only two regions, Russia and Kazakhstan, with no presence in Europe, the Americas or Asia beyond them.
• Some services, including Cloud Functions and Smart Web Security, are not available in the Kazakhstan region.
• Western companies face sanctions exposure.
• English documentation is weaker and the third-party ecosystem is smaller than on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Independent English-language reviews are scarce; TrustRadius shows only a single review.