My take: for general edge performance and security, yes, and reviewers back that up clearly. For the specific "enterprise video delivery inside the corporate network" use case this category is built around, I'd say the answer is more qualified, so let me walk through both.
On value, I found one reviewer describing the ROI as strong "thanks to a generous free tier and predictable upgrade paths that can reduce origin server costs," and another calling the free tier "genuinely useful rather than just a teaser," even for smaller projects. On the downside, that same reviewer who praised the free tier also warned that pricing "can rise sharply into enterprise territory" once you need advanced bot management or stronger support SLAs, and another reviewer told me costs get steep fast as you scale.
The caveat I'd weigh most heavily: Cloudflare Application Security and Performance's own review base talks almost entirely about website security and general CDN performance, not internal video/webcast delivery specifically. I still think its edge network, latency reduction, and DNS management earn their praise on the merits (see the evidence on global latency and lock-in above), so it's worth it if that's what you need. If your use case is specifically live video to internal audiences, I'd weigh it against Kaltura or IBM ECDN first.
Are you evaluating Cloudflare for security and general performance, or specifically for internal video/webcast delivery? That changes whether "worth it" is even the right question.
##### Post Metadata - Posted at: about 2 months ago - Author title: SEO Content Writer - Net upvotes: 1 ## Comments ### Comment 1 Depends heavily on what you mean by eCDN, and this is worth being precise about. Cloudflare is excellent at public-internet delivery, so if your "enterprise audience" is really external users or a public-facing app, it's a strong pick. But if the actual problem is internal, thousands of employees on one corporate network hammering the WAN during a town hall, that's the classic eCDN job of keeping traffic local, and a public CDN doesn't fix it because the bottleneck is inside your own building. Where does your traffic actually choke, on the way across the internet, or on your internal office links? That decides whether Cloudflare is the right answer or the wrong category. ##### Comment Metadata - Posted at: about 2 months ago ## Related discussions - [How well does Trello scale into a larger team?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/1-how-well-does-trello-scale-into-a-larger-team) - Posted at: over 13 years ago - Comments: 6 - [Can we please add a new section](https://www.g2.com/discussions/2-can-we-please-add-a-new-section) - Posted at: over 13 years ago - Comments: 0 - [Quantifiable benefits from implementing your CRM](https://www.g2.com/discussions/quantifiable-benefits-from-implementing-your-crm) - Posted at: over 13 years ago - Comments: 4