Cloudflare Enterprise Add-on
Cloudflare sells Enterprise as a negotiated contract starting in the thousands a month. xCloud already holds one — $5 per domain, per month, no contract.
Every switch on that middle box lives in your xCloud dashboard — no Cloudflare account, no second login
Pricing
One price, the whole suite, on every domain you enable.
$5/ domain / month
One subscription per domain — subdomains count as their own. Add and remove them individually from the Addons page. Includes 100 GB of bandwidth a month; beyond that it's $0.02/GB, prorated.
No contract and no minimum term. No free trial, and add-ons are non-refundable once activated.
Everything included
The real comparison
Six hosts bundle it free — as long as you move your sites onto their servers. Two sell it per domain. Here is the whole picture, including the three rows where we come off worse.
| Feature | xCloud add-onon servers you own | Bundled hostingKinsta, 10Web, Levamo, BigScoots, Convesio | Cloudwaysadd-on, on their platform | Cloudflare directbought from Cloudflare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on your own cloud account | Yes | Their platform | Their platform | Yes |
| Any stack — WordPress, Laravel, static, PHP | Yes | Mostly WordPress | WordPress & Woo | Yes |
| Custom cache bypass paths, per site | Yes | Varies | No | Manual rules |
| Bandwidth included, per domain | 100 GB, then $0.02/GB | Plan limits | Quota, then $0.02/GB | Yes |
| Full-page caching at the edge | Yes | Yes | WordPress & Woo | Manual rules |
| Keep your DNS provider and nameservers | Yes | Varies | Yes | No |
| DNS set up for you, and restored on cancel | Yes | n/a | Manual CNAME | No |
| Switch it off per domain, any time | Yes | Change host | Yes | Annual contract |
| No separate Cloudflare account | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Volume discount | $5 flat | n/a | $4.99 | Negotiated |
| Automatic selective cache purge | No | Varies | Yes | Varies |
| Pricing | $5/month per hostname — root and www together — 100 GB included, then $0.02/GB | $23–$50/month hosting plan — Cloudflare included only while you host there | $4.99/month per hostname — plus $0.02/GB once the bandwidth quota runs out | $250/month per domain — add-ons billed separately — Enterprise on annual contract |
The xCloud price is the add-on, on top of the plan you already have. Bundled figures are each host's cheapest plan carrying Cloudflare Enterprise, and Cloudflare's are its published month-to-month rates — all checked 4 August 2026, with Cloudways verified in a live account. See cloudflare.com/plans.
Cloudflare doesn't publish an Enterprise price. It's sold as a negotiated annual contract, quoted per organisation on traffic, domain count and which add-on products you want, and entry-level deals are widely reported to start around $5,000 a month. That's the tier this add-on runs on — you're joining xCloud's existing contract as a custom hostname rather than signing one of your own, which is the only reason a per-domain price of $5 is possible.
Cloudflare's free plan gives you CDN caching for static assets and unmetered DDoS protection, which is genuinely good and enough for many sites. Pro is $25 a month per domain and adds image optimization and a fuller WAF ruleset. Business is $250 a month per domain. Tiered caching is a paid extra on top of all three, and none of them cache full HTML pages at the edge without you writing the rules yourself.
No — and this is where the add-on differs from signing up to Cloudflare directly. Their own plans expect you to move your domain's nameservers to Cloudflare and run DNS there. This runs on Cloudflare for SaaS instead: your domain joins xCloud's account as a custom hostname, so your registrar and DNS provider stay exactly where they are and you add one CNAME record.
It's the same network, on a higher tier. Free and Enterprise both serve from 330+ cities, but Enterprise adds the managed WAF rulesets, priority routing, tiered caching, and full-page edge caching for WordPress and WooCommerce — the things that move time-to-first-byte rather than just offloading images.
Because free comes with their servers attached. Kinsta, Rocket.net, Levamo, 10Web, Convesio and BigScoots all bundle Cloudflare Enterprise at no line-item cost, and every one of them requires you to host with them to get it — it's a reason to stay, which is what it's designed to be. The xCloud add-on runs on infrastructure you own: your DigitalOcean, AWS, Vultr, Hetzner or Linode account, or a managed xCloud server, whichever you already chose. If you move providers next year the add-on moves with you. $5 a domain is what it costs to not have that decision made for you.
Cloudways is the only other host selling Cloudflare Enterprise per domain, at $4.99 falling to $1.99 above 25 domains, and they offer a 30-day trial where we don't. On list price and billing unit the two are effectively the same — both charge per hostname with the root domain and its www counted together, and both meter bandwidth per domain at $0.02 per gigabyte beyond the included quota. What differs is everything around it. We set your DNS up automatically and put it back the way we found it if you cancel, reinstating your previous SSL, where theirs is a manual CNAME both ways. You can add your own cache bypass paths per site; their documentation says custom cookie exclusion is currently unavailable. Their edge page caching is limited to WordPress and WooCommerce, while ours also runs on Laravel, static sites and custom PHP. And ours runs on infrastructure you own rather than on their platform. Where they're ahead: the free trial, the volume pricing, and automatic selective cache purging, which we don't have yet.
Related reading:Activating the add-onEnabling WAF rulesUnder Attack ModeCloudflare DNS managementVisitor IPs behind the proxy
What you get
The same three things every enterprise CDN promises. Here is the mechanism behind each one, and everything switched on for your $5.
Every feature below runs on Cloudflare's Enterprise tier
Static assets and full HTML pages are served from whichever of Cloudflare's 330+ locations is closest, instead of a round trip to your server. Tiered caching keeps neighbouring data centres sharing what they've already fetched rather than each one asking your origin separately, cutting origin requests by up to 60%.
A security plugin can only act once the request has already reached your origin and spent its CPU. Cloudflare's managed WAF rulesets sit in front of the site and drop OWASP-class attacks, exploit scans and zero-days before they arrive. Volumetric DDoS is absorbed by one of the largest networks on the internet — unmetered, at layers 3, 4 and 7.
There is no second dashboard and no Cloudflare account to create. Every toggle, every purge and every report lives in xCloud, next to the server and site they belong to. Traffic, cache performance and security events go back as far as 30 days and as fine as the last 30 minutes — top pages, countries, devices and IPs — and cache purges go out worldwide from the Overview tab.
Setup
Your DNS provider stays where it is. Your nameservers stay where they are. One record changes.
In your xCloud dashboard, open Addons, find Cloudflare Enterprise and hit Enable. Pick the domain from the dropdown and pay — $5 for the month, no contract attached to it.
xCloud shows you the exact record to add at your existing DNS provider. Your nameservers do not move and your DNS host does not change — the domain joins xCloud's Cloudflare account as a custom hostname.
Refresh the domain status; it flips to Active. Sensible defaults are already on, and the Settings tab is there when you want to change caching, WAF or anything else.
Who it's for
Product pages off the edge, carts and checkout dynamic, WAF in front of payments.
Enable it per client site, at a price you can bill on as a line item.
Serve heavy pages worldwide from the edge, and block AI crawlers from scraping them.
Absorb the traffic spike at the edge, so your origin stays calm through launch day.
Rate limiting and Under Attack Mode keep logged-in experiences fast and protected.
Every continent loads from the nearest of 330+ cities, not one distant server.
Social proof
I had 150 sites on cloudways and am in the process of moving them to xcloud. Much faster and better priced.
Dan SpinozaI came from Cloudways and won't go back. Highly impressed with xCloud. Glad I gave them a chance.
Jared McDowellI went from Cloudways to xCloud. No intention on switching in the foreseeable future.
Blaine MooreFAQ
A fully managed, per-domain integration that puts your website on Cloudflare's Enterprise network. Enterprise normally means a contract negotiated directly with Cloudflare at volume. xCloud already holds that contract, so you get global CDN acceleration, enterprise WAF and DDoS protection, edge caching, image optimization and real-time analytics for $5 a domain — with no negotiation, no minimum commitment and no Cloudflare account of your own.
No. Cache rules, WAF toggles, purges, analytics and security events are all in your xCloud dashboard. Setup is smoothest if your domain already sits in a Cloudflare account that's connected to xCloud, because the configuration is then applied for you automatically — but that account is only ever used for your DNS records, not for the add-on itself.
Because you're not buying a plan — you're joining one. xCloud holds an Enterprise contract with Cloudflare and the add-on attaches your domain to it as a custom hostname, so the cost is a share of a network already paid for rather than a new subscription. That is also why tiered caching and full-page edge caching are included here, when they're paid extras or hand-written rules on Cloudflare's own Pro and Business plans.
Not at the moment. At $5 per domain with no contract you can enable it, run it on your own site and cancel whenever you want — but it starts billing straight away.
No. Like every xCloud add-on, the Cloudflare Enterprise add-on is non-refundable once the subscription is activated. Add-on purchases are final, so check the domain, price and billing details before you subscribe. The full terms are in the xCloud Refund Policy.
One subscription covers the root domain and its www version. Other hostnames — shop.example.com, app.example.com, staging.example.com — are separate subscriptions at $5 per hostname per month, so you enable only the ones you need. Manage them together from the Addons page, and remove any single one without touching the rest.
Each domain subscription includes 100 GB of bandwidth per month, which covers the vast majority of WordPress sites — full-page edge caching means most requests are served from Cloudflare's edge without touching your server. Usage beyond 100 GB is billed at $0.02/GB, prorated, so a high-traffic site pays transparently for what it uses instead of hitting a hard cap or a forced upgrade. You can monitor your data transfer anytime in the Analytics tab of the addon.
You can purge per site from the xCloud dashboard today. A plugin to purge from wp-admin is planned as part of a central xCloud plugin — the purge capability is already built, it just needs wiring into WordPress.
Rate limiting counts requests per IP in 60-second windows and applies a managed challenge above the threshold, which keeps bots, scrapers and brute-force traffic off your server. The default is 200 requests a minute and we're still tuning it across sites. It isn't a hard Cloudflare cap: if the default doesn't suit your site — a busy store, say — open a support ticket and we'll customise the threshold for your domain. Self-serve control is on the roadmap.
No. On Enterprise the timeout isn't fixed the way it is on the free plan. We currently run it at 200 seconds and can raise it further per use case — Cloudflare allows up to 6,000. If you have a legitimate long-running process hitting 524 errors, open a support ticket.
Yes, and the caching is aware of both. Full pages are cached at the edge, while edge page caching automatically bypasses logged-in sessions, wp-admin, wp-login, the REST API, WooCommerce and EDD carts, checkout, my-account, feeds and sitemaps — so shoppers never see someone else's basket. You can add your own bypass paths per site in the Cache Bypass Paths setting; anything under them is never cached at the edge and always loads fresh from your server. When you turn on Edge Page Caching, xCloud disables local page caching for that site so the two layers can't conflict.
Yes. Early Hints, ScrapeShield, static caching, edge page caching, image optimization and the SSL cipher profile are all switchable, as are the WAF, rate limiting, browser integrity check, Under Attack Mode and AI crawler blocking. The defaults are already tuned; save after changing a toggle and xCloud persists it for the site.
Request summary, cache performance and security events, over ranges from the last 30 minutes to the last 30 days, with your top pages, countries, devices and IPs — all in the xCloud dashboard rather than a separate Cloudflare console.
It should help. Search engines weigh page speed and availability, and this improves both — pages come off the edge, and the WAF and DDoS mitigation keep the site reachable during attacks that would otherwise take your server, and the crawler, offline.
Enterprise speed and always-on protection on any domain, for $5 a month. One CNAME, live in minutes, and yours to switch off whenever you want.
No contract · Cancel any domain at any time
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