--- title: Project Shield Reviews meta\_title: 'Project Shield Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Project Shield works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 1 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2025-11-06' parent\_category: name: Web Security url: https://www.g2.com/categories/web-security --- # Project Shield Reviews & Product Details Project Shield is a free service that uses Google technology to protect news sites and free expression from DDoS attacks on the web. * * * Seller [Google](https://www.g2.com/sellers/google) Discussions [Project Shield Community](https://www.g2.com/products/project-shield/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cloudflare Application Security and Performance") Cloudflare Application Security and Performance 4.5/5(699) ](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) [ ![HAProxy](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "HAProxy") HAProxy 4.7/5(912) ](https://www.g2.com/products/haproxy/reviews) [ ![DataDome](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "DataDome") DataDome 4.7/5(244) ](https://www.g2.com/products/datadome/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/project-shield/competitors/alternatives) GR Georges R. Ingénieur informaticien Internet Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/22/2018 "Best Ddos protection I use" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Project Shield? It is very easy to use, it allows optimal use to ensure the safety of its site, I had no problem during use, it was perfect. It's easy and quick to set up, only 45 mins. Project Shield is a free service for news publishers and journalists, human rights' organizations, as well as election monitoring and information sites. And we are using defenses that we've built, as well as Google's infrastructure to protect these sites from DDoS—Distributed Denial of Service Attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Project Shield? The only flaw I can find is that the project recovers logs from the server, and if Project Shield gets hacked, there will be my logs and my site can be hacked. It became pay after 30 days and is not open to all at the moment, but we could use it and it is a very interesting product! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Project Shield: Easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Project Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? From now on, my website runs 24/7! I had already Ddos attacks, and this is no longer the case, the load of our server was lightened. This allowed us to make a profit of 42%, because the site is available all the time and is secure, buyers are satisfied and we make much more profit than before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ### There are not enough reviews of Project Shield for G2 to provide buying insight. 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