The Cloudflare Alternative: That Runs Inside Your Cloud, Cluster or Data Centre

A full-lifecycle WAAP platform built for modern enterprises. Prophaze combines AI-driven WAF, API protection, bot mitigation, and Layer 7 DDoS defense to secure web and API traffic across any cloud, Kubernetes, or hybrid environment.

  • Deploys in your VPC, Kubernetes cluster or on-prem
  • Inspects internal and east-west API traffic
  • Data stays in your jurisdiction, air-gapped ready
  • Bot, API & DDoS protection , not sold as as add-ons
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Why Choose Prophaze as Your Cloudflare alternative

Why teams running Kubernetes, hybrid and regulated workloads choose Prophaze. AI-driven WAF, shadow API discovery from live traffic, bot mitigation, L7 DDoS protection, load balancing, data masking and native SIEM integration, in one platform.

Deploy where your data has to stay

Run Prophaze on AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid, on-prem or fully air-gapped. Traffic is inspected inside your environment, so you can meet RBI, SEBI, DPDP, SAMA and NCA data-residency requirements without routing through a third-party edge. availability and no single point of failure.

Protect the API Cloudflare never sees Protection

Most API traffic in a microservices estate is internal. Prophaze’s Local Application Firewall sits beside your workloads and applies the same policies to private APIs and east-west calls as to public endpoints. Cloudflare Tunnel controls access to private apps; Prophaze inspects what happens inside them.

Kubernetes-native, not Kubernetes-compatible

Deploy as an ingress controller or in-cluster, manage policies through a full API and Git, and let AI profiling select and tune rules as your services change.

Prophaze vs Cloudflare: Feature by Feature Comparison

Compare the capabilities that matter when evaluating a modern WAAP platform, from architecture and deployment flexibility to API security, threat detection, and operational visibility.
Prophaze Cloudflare
Where does inspection happen? In your cloud, cluster or data centre On Cloudflare’s global edge
On-prem and air-gapped deployment Supported Not available (SaaS edge)
Data residency Traffic never leaves your environment Regional controls via Data Localization Suite; traffic is processed on Cloudflare’s network
Kubernetes Native ingress and in-cluster deployment Fronts cluster from edge
API discovery From OpenAPI specs and live traffic, internal and external API Shield discovery on traffic proxied through Cloudflare
Packaging WAF, API, bot and DDoS in one platform Bot Management and advanced API Shield are Enterprise add-ons
Support model Dedicated CSM and TAM Varies by plan
Global CDN and edge performance Not a CDN; works alongside your existing CDN Global Anycast network and CDN
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Switch from Cloudflare to Prophaze in Three Steps

Onboard applications, APIs, and microservices into Prophaze WAF-as-a-Service in minutes using flexible connection patterns and guided workflows, so teams can ship features without waiting on security projects.

Deploy where your apps run.

Install as a Kubernetes ingress controller, reverse proxy or LAF on AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid or on-prem. Cloudflare can stay in front.

Discover your real APIs surface.

AI profiling maps documented and shadow APIs from specs and live traffic, including internal endpoints, and learns normal behaviour.

Turn on protection.

WAF, API security, bot and DDoS policies go live with AI-selected rules. Move public traffic over whenever you’re ready.

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Why Security Teams Choose Prophaze

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Trusted by Teams Running Business-Critical Platforms

Prophaze WAAP protects applications for global SaaS platforms, financial institutions, healthcare providers and government systems where downtime is not an option.
Chief Information Officer
IT Services
“The product delivers full-spectrum web security, handling OWASP Top 10 risks, DDoS, and bot threats effectively. Its multi-tenant design with proper isolation also helps us cater to cost-conscious customers.”
Ciso & Head Enterprise Architecture
Manufacturing
"After doing a pilot with the Prophaze Team, I was very confident about the product capabilities compared to other solutions."
Chief Information Officer
IT Services
“We've had a decent experience overall. The product offers a good range of features and has performed reliably in day-to-day operations.”
Manager
IT Security and Risk Management - Energy and Utilities
“The overall experience was impressive because of the seamless deployment, real-time protection and excellent support throughout the deployment.”
Chief Information Officer
IT Services
"We've had a decent experience overall. The product offers a good range of features and has performed reliably in day-to-day operations."

Cloudflare Alternative FAQs

Yes. Keep Cloudflare for CDN and edge, and deploy Prophaze inside your environment for internal apps, private APIs and data-residency workloads.
Yes, with no dependency on an external edge network.
Prophaze inspects traffic where your apps run, so there’s no extra hop for internal traffic. For public sites, keep your existing CDN in front.
AI-powered application profiling and behavioral analysis automatically select and tune rules, so teams spend less time on manual exceptions.
Prophaze provides granular attack logs, role-based access management and SIEM integration to support audit and monitoring needs. Ask our team about the frameworks you must meet.
Yes. A full API manages policies, rules and tenants, so you can keep configs in Git and promote changes through pull requests.
Prophaze supports multi-tenant deployments with tenant isolation, which suits MSPs and MSSPs. Contact us to discuss usage-based options.

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  • Protect web applications and APIs from modern attacks
  • Stop exploits, bots and Layer 7 abuse with one platform
  • Deploy fast with no engineering overhead
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