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Cloudflare Enterprise has become a standard badge on WordPress hosting pricing pages. Rocket.net and Kinsta include it with their plans, Cloudways sells it as an add-on for $4.99/month per domain, and some hosts compare their bundle with a direct Enterprise contract they claim is worth $3,000 to $6,000 a month.

But Cloudflare's Free plan can already cache your HTML at the edge. Back in 2021, I used exactly that to take our then-WordPress blog to a 76 ms global average TTFB on a $1.33/month shared host.

So is a Cloudflare Enterprise hosting bundle worth paying for, or is it a badge on something you can set up yourself for free? Let's find out.

Apparently, everyone is running the fastest WordPress hosting company in the world.

Rocket.net says "Rocket.net is the Fastest. Period". Bluehost calls itself "the fastest WordPress hosting, proven by data". Kinsta promises up to "200% faster sites." Hostinger advertises up to a 40% speed boost. SiteGround says its Ultrafast PHP is up to 30% faster.

They can't all be the fastest. In fact, none of them actually are.

Cloudflare Pages and Vercel are two of the most widely used deployment platforms for modern frontend and full-stack applications. If you want a more direct static hosting benchmark, we also have an older Netlify vs Cloudflare Pages comparison.

Netlify and Cloudflare Pages are two of the most popular static site hosting platforms. We also have a newer Cloudflare Pages vs Vercel comparison if you are evaluating modern frontend platforms today.

Looking to host your WordPress site on Digitalocean’s Premium on an AMD or Intel Droplet? If your main goal is WordPress performance, you may also want to read the full WordPress Web Vitals optimization walkthrough.

Then you’ve come to the right place!