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Rating Distribution

Cloudflare has 1.7 star rating based on 37 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied. Rating distribution shows 78% unfavorable and 16% positive. Reviews cite reliability, privacy, and data security concerns and a high price level.

Positive Feedback

Some reviewers acknowledge effective protection when it works and say Cloudflare can help those who need strong web security and performance features.

Negative Feedback / Risk Areas

  • Recurring billing and cancellation failures leading to unexpected charges and refund requests.
  • Poor customer service with long delays, limited live support, and unresolved tickets.
  • Site access blocks, faulty human verification or captcha preventing legitimate users from reaching sites.
  • Privacy and account hijack concerns reported alongside high perceived costs.

Key Takeaways for Future Customers

  • Read Cloudflare reviews and Cloudflare customer complaints before buying to gauge support experience.
  • Ask about billing, refunds, and subscriptions policies up front and get cancellation steps in writing.
  • Confirm customer service options and SLAs if uninterrupted access and timely support are critical.
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Ciprian D Juu

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| map-marker Dej, Cluj

# Cloudflare's "Cancellation" System is a Joke - 35+ Days, Multiple Charges, Still Can't Cancel

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# Cloudflare's Cancellation System is a Joke - 35+ Days, Multiple Charges, Still Can't...

# Cloudflare's 'Cancellation' System is a Joke - 35+ Days, Multiple Charges, Still Can't Cancel

**TL;DR:** Cancelled all Cloudflare subscriptions on December 25th, 2025. Got charged anyway on December 27th AND January 27th.

Their support says 'engineers cancelled all subscriptions,' but the billing page STILL shows an active $240/year subscription that I literally CANNOT edit or remove (the Edit button does nothing). Over a month later, still fighting this.

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## The Timeline of Absurdity

**December 25, 2025:** I cancel ALL my subscriptions through the Cloudflare dashboard. Everything. Done.

Or so I thought.

**December 27, 2025:** I get charged $10 for 'Advanced Certificate Manager' - a service I JUST cancelled 2 days ago. I open a support ticket demanding:

- Full refund

- Explanation of why a cancelled service was charged

- All payment methods permanently deleted

**December 31, 2025:** Support responds saying it's a 'system-side issue' and they've 'escalated to engineering.' They also mention response times might be slow due to holidays. Fair enough, I guess.

**January 27, 2026:** I GET CHARGED AGAIN. Same subscription.

At this point, I've been waiting a MONTH.

**January 29, 2026:** Support claims 'Our engineers have cancelled all active subscriptions on the account.'

**January 31, 2026 (Today):** I check my billing page. THERE'S STILL AN ACTIVE SUBSCRIPTION showing $240.00/yr with a renewal date of June 8, 2026. The 'Edit' button? **Doesn't work.

Nothing happens when you click it.**

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## What I've Learned

1. **Cloudflare's cancellation system doesn't actually cancel billing** - They might stop your services, but the billing keeps rolling.

2. **The UI is deliberately broken** - You literally CANNOT click 'Edit' on subscriptions to remove them. It's not a bug; it's a feature (for them).

3.

**Support plays the 'escalated to engineering' card** - Classic stalling tactic while they keep charging your card.

4. **They ignore requests for legal contact information** - I've asked multiple times for their legal representative's contact details. Radio silence.

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## My Response to Their Latest 'We cancelled everything' Email

> 'No, you did not cancel all active subscriptions in my account! Can you see how that subscription is still active?

I want that permanently removed.'

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> 'You will have to remove my payment method and permanently delete my account and make sure all subscriptions are canceled!'

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## What's Next

- Filing a complaint with ANPC (Romania's consumer protection agency)

- Filing an EU consumer protection complaint

- Contacting legal representation

- Documenting EVERYTHING for potential legal action

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## The Real Question

How is a company this big allowed to have billing systems this broken? Or is it 'broken' by design?

When you can't cancel a subscription because the Edit button literally doesn't respond to clicks, that's not a bug - that's a dark pattern.

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**Has anyone else experienced this with Cloudflare?** I'd love to hear your stories.

Maybe we can compile enough cases for a class action.

**EDIT:** I have the full 5-page support ticket transcript as evidence. Names/emails redacted for privacy but happy to share with anyone who needs it for similar cases.

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*Posted from someone who's been in tech for 30 years and has never seen billing this bad.*

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Cons:
  • Virtually no support whatsoever

Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered

User's recommendation: I bet you can find better options out there. Even

SaiThanPhyo A

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| map-marker Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Help Request – Unable to Contact Through Website

Cloudflare - Help Request – Unable to Contact Through Website

Hello Cloudflare Team,

I tried to contact your support through the website chat, but it requires a business email address.

I am using my personal email (saithanphyoaung20@***.com), so I was unable to submit the form.

I would like assistance with contacting Cloudflare sales/support.

Please help me or forward my request to the correct department.

Thank you very much,

Sai Than Phyo Aung

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Loss:
$10

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: My account was blocked

tao h Vht

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| map-marker Narita, Chiba

Request for Assistance to Cancel Business Subscription and Refund

Cloudflare - Request for Assistance to Cancel Business Subscription and Refund

My account 28311****@***.com due to misoperation, the domain name hantao1205.netlib.re was subscribed to the business plan with an annual payment of $2400. The invoice number IN-5117**** is currently unused and the subscription time has not exceeded 24 hours.

Application for assistance in canceling the business subscription and refunding.

Thank you for your contact information 28311****@***.com or hantao1980@***.com

At present, a dispute has been initiated with the bank regarding this transaction. If a refund cannot be issued, a complaint may be filed with the consumer protection department and legal department of your company's country in the future.

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Loss:
$2400

Preferred solution: Full refund

Justin L Aat

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Verification not working

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Updated by user Sep 07, 2025

Burn this company to the ground...

Updated by user Aug 21, 2025

I would give it negative 100 stars if I could. It's like this "company" was created just to make the people subjected to it miserable.

I am not a customer. And they make it literally and metaphorically impossible to contact them in any way. Based on the community posts that I have seen, hundreds of people are having the same exact issue and not a single one has been given an actual solution. They also close their community posts after three days, so no one can even have the opportunity to corroborate.

It's distasteful at best and illegal at worst. I'll update IF I ever get a response from cloudflare, but I am absolutely not holding my breath.

Original review Aug 21, 2025

I have FULLY exhausted the different ways that I could possibly be in contact with your company. I AM NOT A CUSTOMER of your janky *** "product." Yet I am blocked from seeing my retirement account, seeing my HSA account, using Indeed or Glassdoor, which I HAVE to use for my job.

I have looked at ALL community posts about this, which you CLOSE for new comments after three days (are you *** kidding me? Why even HAVE a community page then?). I went to the Cloudflare Reddit and made a huge post. The moderators A) said that some of the moderators actually WORK at Cloudflare, which I think is hilarious because no one does apparently, B) did not read my post at all and gave me the same exact "solutions" that have NEVER worked, C) told me that I "was being combative and wasn't listening to commentors and didn't seem open to the solutions they were giving," which is mainly because every single person who offered a "solution" and didn't just make a joke gave me the same exact solutions that I had already tried, which is EXACTLY what my post stated, but I know people on Reddit are also illiterate, so that's fun.

I have cleared my caches, I have disabled all extensions, I have tried different browsers, I have tried different laptops altogether, I have used incognito mode, I don't use a VPN, I have done EVERYTHING that has been suggested to me. I cannot submit a support ticket because, again, as stated, I DO NOT have an account with you and never wanted one. I also couldn't even log into an account with you if I WANTED to (again, which I don't, because your product is a *** scam) because your OWN website does the same thing that the previously mentioned websites do. And I have never been able to access your actual website because you block it...

I JUST want to access my retirement and HSA accounts. I do not understand how it is legal for you to block people from these websites and then have NO customer support WHATSOEVER. I tried complaining to the Better Business Bureau, but you are, OF COURSE not accredited, so you don't care either way. Since I cannot get ahold of anyone in your supposed company that is willing to help in ANY way, I'm going to be forced to seek legal action.

I work with a group of lawyers and I am going to ask them what they think I should do, because this has been MONTHS and I am still blocked from all of these websites, including your own. It does not give me an error - it just stays on the "verifying you're a human" screen and re-loads over and over and over and over again. Also, if I am told that "the issue is with the website administrator and not cloudflare," I'm going to SCREAM. It's not an issue with the individual websites when it is happening across the board.

The issue, as it has always been, is with YOU, the common denominator between all of these different sites. I got this email from PissedConsumer.com because even though I am NOT a consumer of your illegitimate website, I am absolutely PISSED. I guarantee that I probably won't hear anything back from this, because that would just be par for the course with you people.

But please, I BEG you, PLEASE respond to me. I'm losing my *** mind because of this.

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Preferred solution: Apology

User's recommendation: If you can't access a website because of this loser company, submit a message here as it is the ONLY way to contact this company.

Michael C Eji

Problems with purchase

Cloudflare - Problems with purchase

I tried to purchase tickets to a show on Ticketmaster, and I used my card, and it said I was blocked from making the purchase, and it's been doing the same thing for several months now. I've called my bank.

I've called Visa. I've called Ticketmaster. I've called you. I've called Cardinal Commerce, the other name on the blocked website page that I get, and everyone says that it's impossible for them to touch the purchase and for them to stop it, but someone is blocking this, and I want to know who and I want to know why I can't even make a purchase to take my daughter to a comedy show on her birthday next week because I'm blocked, and I don't understand why I'm blocked.

I have season tickets to the Indianapolis Colts and my Indiana Pacers through the same account, so I don't understand how I'm blocked. Like, what am I doing wrong?

But I don't understand this at all. This is unacceptable.

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Preferred solution: I would like to be able to shop online at ticketmaster.com

john g Fbr
map-marker Brookings, Oregon

Incompetence and no response to correct problems equally deplorable

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My email conversation with a valid business was closed down with the explanation that my website was under cyberattack. Subsequent attempts to find out what was going on met with no response. This company should rename itself to Cloudburst!

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Cons:
  • Incompetent and unresponsive

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Stay away from these clowns

Preston G Nyz

I can't get past the verification stage.

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Cloudflare - I can't get past the verification stage.

Every time I clicked the human verification it's keeps looping so I can't get to the sites I pay for but I have to get past cloudflare human verification.

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Loss:
$220
Pros:
  • Its great when it works
Cons:
  • It sucks when it doesnt makes me want to go back to pick the pictures in the box scenario

Preferred solution: Fix please just want to go to sites I pay subscriptions too is all please and thank you.

Hayley K Mch

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| map-marker Santa Monica, California

Blocked IP

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Updated by user Oct 12, 2025

Waiting to hear back from them so zero experience so far.

Original review Oct 10, 2025

It is impossible to contact this company or to get a call back.

A couple of sites with Cloudflare are needlessly blocking me for no good reason. They are also blocking others in the same region.

Can't reach anyone on the sites to ask them to unblock me. Can't reach Cloudflare to help either.

I think sites using Cloudflare could be inadvertently reducing customers by blocking them when they should not be blocked.

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Preferred solution: A way to unblock my attempts to access sites I've been mistakenly blocked from by Cloudflare. I cannot contact those sites because those sites have never responded to contact forms or emails in the first place.

User's recommendation: Think twice about using Cloudflare to protect your website.

SALIM A Vdy

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Fortebet website blocked

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Cloudflare - Fortebet website blocked

Hello... I was trying to access my account on fortebet , but been blocked to access fortebet website

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Justin L Aat

Then why would you rate them a 5/5...?

Billie P Buj

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| map-marker San Francisco, California

I want cloudfare put of my google account and phone

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I have never downloaded Cloudflare, but it's somehow in my Google account and Samsung phone. It continually blocks me from going to sites.

It has been deleting my emails, and I'm not a developer. I refuse to open a Cloudflare account to delete the Cloudflare account that is hacking into my phone and deleting my emails.

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Cons:
  • Have hacked into my phone and have been deleting my emails and they block me from going to sites

Preferred solution: Apology

User's recommendation: Don't trust cloudfare

Prince A Tql

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| map-marker San Francisco, California

Scam - we are stuck and losing money - no response

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Cloudflare - Scam - we are stuck and losing money - no response
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There is no help or customer support. We spent $125 to register a domain and now they are not available.

They want to charge $20 to talk to an agent. Hope this is not a Chinese company. If it is we will write a letter of US congess to ban them in US.

Our hosting provider and we have been struggling since Friday to add

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Custom name server s

2. We have changed DNS, where A record is not propagating.

There is zero response form sales and costumer service.

In order to chat with them you have a pay $20 a month ?

We need serious help as their dNS is not propagating.

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Loss:
$125
Pros:
  • No pros
Cons:
  • No customer service

User's recommendation: Red flag

Lisa R Jqf

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Can't log into my vinted usa account

I keep getting a 525 issue. Handshake? Denver is the issue.

I need to get into my account to post and sell and whatever cloudflare is is stopping this!

Can't contact Vinted since they have no customer support and now reading you guys don't have any either.

So how am I suppose to do business if it's down on both ends???

This is outrageous.

Fix your issues.

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User's recommendation: Report Vinted for not having any live support or customer service.

Resolved
Anthony C Lgq

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| map-marker San Francisco, California

Resolved: Poor Customer Service

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Updated by user May 29, 2025

Company fixed the issue and I have been provided with apology.

Updated by user May 16, 2025

Today, (5-16-25), I received a refund from Cloudflare. They did not explain what changed their mind or why it took so long. I am now downgraded to their free service and will transfer my domains to Ionos.

Original review May 14, 2025

I'm unable to get a response from Cloudflare. I feel abused by their staff.

I have used their service for many years, and the quality of customer service has tanked. I had several surgeries and requested a refund because I was in the hospital when they charged me for the annual fee. I also tried to stop two add-on services, but they continued to charge me. I opened four tickets and wrote about 30 emails.

They would occasionally reply but would never give a real answer. I closed my business. They seem to rely on AI. It's a big joke and a waste of time.

I want them to keep their promise and give me a partial refund. There was an issue with one of my domain names, and I was told by their team that a hacker was trying to steal my domain name, and once they fixed the issue, they would handle the refund. This was in February.

They need to keep their promise. I need funds for meds.

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Loss:
$200
Pros:
  • Use to be a good sevice
Cons:
  • Poor communication
  • Poor customer service and communication

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Dont waste your time

Antonio B Qis

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Scam company

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There is no help or customer support. We spent $125 to register a domain and now they are not available

Our hosting provider and we have been struggling since Friday am and zero response

In order to chat with them you have a pay $20 a month ?

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User's recommendation: Red Flag

Muskan Pmb

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Support

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I had to leave a message on the sales line, which is all this is. This does not actually get you any customer support. I'm hoping that leaving a message on their attack line will actually get me some attention from this company because I can't get it any other way!

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Justin L Aat

Sadly, don't hold your breath. I want this company to be closed down so badly. It's such a scam.

Fritz A Rge

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I can't get anyone to answer my question, and the community portal doesn't have the answers to my question.

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