Cloudflare competitors and alternatives
As of Nov 12, 2026, Alion lists 10 companies most like Cloudflare: Fastly, Akamai, Menlo Security, SentinelOne, Cloudflare, Rubrik, Netskope, Gcore, Qualys and Wiz.
- Cloudflare itself has 460 open roles on Alion.
- Of them, Akamai is hiring the most, with 250 open roles.
- Wiz has raised the most venture funding on record: $1.7B.
- Open roles at Netskope fell the most: from 128 on Oct 12, 2026 to 111 now.
Cloudflare and its competitors compared
Open roles are the postings Alion lists today; their change is shown only for career sites that state posting dates. Funding is the venture money on record. A dash means Alion holds no figure.
| Company | Open roles | Change | Raised | Last round | Lead investors | Employees | Headquarters | Main technologies | Hiring in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloudflare
This company
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460 | +19%since Oct 12, 2026 | – | – | – | 1001-5000 | San Francisco, United States | Cloudflare, DNS, Galileo | United States, Singapore, Portugal +15 more |
Fastly
In common: CDN & Edge Delivery, Web Security & DDoS Protection · Python, Go, JavaScript · headquarters in United States |
55 | – | – | – | – | 1001-5000 | San Francisco, United States | Fastly, GitHub, Linux | United States, India, United Kingdom +3 more |
Akamai
In common: CDN & Edge Delivery, Web Security & DDoS Protection · Python, Go, JavaScript · headquarters in United States |
250 | – | – | – | – | 5000+ | Cambridge, United States | Akamai, Python, Kubernetes | United States, Poland, Canada +23 more |
Menlo Security
In common: Cloud Security, Web Security & DDoS Protection · Python, Go, JavaScript · headquarters in United States |
23 | -12%since Oct 12, 2026 | $10.5M | Series A $10.5M2014 | General Catalyst | 201-500 | Mountain View, United States | AI Agents, AWS, Python | India, United Kingdom, Japan +2 more |
SentinelOne
In common: Cloud Security · Python, Go, JavaScript · headquarters in United States |
227 | 0%since Oct 12, 2026 | $537M | Series D $200M2020 | – | 1001-5000 | Mountain View, United States | SentinelOne, Python, Kubernetes | United States, Czech Republic, Israel +21 more |
| Cloudflare In common: CDN & Edge Delivery, Web Security & DDoS Protection · Go, Rust, Terraform · headquarters in United States | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | San Francisco, United States | Cloudflare, Go, Rust | United States, United Kingdom, Portugal |
Rubrik
In common: Cloud Security · Python, Go, JavaScript · headquarters in United States |
168 | – | $3M | Venture round $3M2022 | – | 1001-5000 | Palo Alto, United States | AI Agents, Fine-tuning, LLM Guardrails | United States, India, Germany +10 more |
Netskope
In common: Cloud Security · Python, Go, JavaScript · headquarters in United States |
111 | -13%since Oct 12, 2026 | – | – | – | 1001-5000 | Santa Clara, United States | Python, DLP, AWS | United States, India, Taiwan +20 more |
Gcore
In common: CDN & Edge Delivery, Web Security & DDoS Protection · Python, Go, Rust |
18 | – | – | – | – | 501-1000 | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg | Linux, Python, DNS | Poland, Serbia, Georgia +2 more |
Qualys
In common: Cloud Security · Python, Go, JavaScript · headquarters in United States |
151 | – | – | – | – | 1001-5000 | Foster City, United States | Qualys Cloud Platform, Python, AWS | India, United States, United Kingdom +11 more |
Wiz
In common: Cloud Security · Python, Go, JavaScript · headquarters in United States |
98 | -12%since Oct 12, 2026 | $1.7B | Series E $1B2024 | – | 1001-5000 | New York, United States | Wiz, AWS, GCP | United States, Israel, India +13 more |
How the list is made
The list comes from Alion's similar-companies engine, the same one AI agents query through the Alion MCP server. A company ranks higher when it shares more of Cloudflare's industry segments and is less spread over others, when its job postings name the same technologies, when it is headquartered in the same country and when its size is close. The list is rebuilt every week.
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Alion, "Cloudflare competitors and alternatives: 10 similar companies compared on hiring and funding", as of Nov 12, 2026. https://alion.io/company/cloudflare/competitors