We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Cloudflare provides Zero Trustability, load balancing, and DDoS protection, as well as automatic SSL certificate protection and a user-friendly GUI. On the other hand, Wiz prioritizes context and risk prioritization with its Security Graph, which allows for custom reports and pinpointing vulnerabilities. Cloudflare has room for improvement in terms of reporting and support response time, as well as providing more servers for better traffic routing and easier log collection. On the other hand, Wiz needs preventive controls, refined reporting, customizable dashboards, and improved risk assessment.
Service and Support: Cloudflare's technical support could be improved for lower-tier plans, while Wiz's customer service is highly praised with excellent technical support and knowledgeable CSMs. Users rate Wiz's customer support very highly with scores of nine or ten out of ten.
Ease of Deployment: Cloudflare's process is generally quick and stress-free, but may take longer if a lot of equipment is needed. Wiz's deployment was done in partnership with the company and only took a few hours, and was spread across multiple public clouds.
Pricing: Cloudflare has a premium pricing model that ranges from free to $1,500 per month, which is considered expensive by some users. They offer unlimited bandwidth, but some enterprise customers would prefer a custom pricing model. On the other hand, Wiz has fair and simple pricing that is on the higher end of the market. They have specific features for easy selection, but some users are concerned about potential price increases and lack of transparency.
ROI: Cloudflare and Wiz are two tools that have been positively reviewed for their ROI. Cloudflare focuses on website protection and preventing server overload, while Wiz assists with asset management, identifying vulnerabilities, and compliance.
Comparison Results: Wiz is the preferred choice for cloud-based businesses over Cloudflare because of its ability to provide context and prioritize risks in the cloud environment, as well as its combination of cloud security posture management, threat intelligence, and risk prioritization. Cloudflare offers good load balancing and protection against DDoS attacks, but Wiz's focus on cloud security and risk prioritization makes it the better option.
"The solution offers the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"When using services like Heroku, Cloudflare is very useful for CNAME flattening. I also use it for their end-to-end SSL with TLS authentication on nginx for securing servers."
"Cloudflare has many features."
"The solution provides good load balancing and protection against DDoS attacks."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service."
"Easier http to https redirect using page rules"
"Cloudflare is a security SaaS provider that provides security and protects us from any application layer attack."
"From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet"
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"The vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"Cloudflare does not have an on-premise solution. If they had different approaches they could be better suited to accommodate more customers, such as on-premise and hybrid deployments. For example, hybrid deployments would be useful where you could move the traffic from the enterprise to the cloud."
"We are a product integrator and reseller, and we would like to have a better partner relationship, similar to a channel sales relationship. Sometimes we are on our own or get diverted by Cloudflare because they have direct sales, which competes with us and makes it difficult to build a relationship with this company since we want to be an MSP or a managed service provider for the solution."
"I think the APIs are a little bit hard for us to work with. The APIs could be more open so that we could integrate better with our SolarWinds or our monitoring solution."
"DNS Management."
"The timing aspect can lead to it being considered overpriced. This is a particular concern we have with Cloudflare, as they may struggle with accurately detecting the client."
"The solution could use more analytics on the backend to give us more insights into everything. More reports would be helpful."
"Although I think it's quite good, it doesn't provide me with all the features I would expect to have if I were using Imperva."
"Cloudflare could offer a better view or maybe dashboards of the main resources used in the client."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The reporting isn't that great. They have executive summaries, but it's only a compliance report that maps all current issues to specific controls. Whether you look at one subscription or project, regardless of the size, you will get a multipage report on how the issues in that account map to that control. Our CSO isn't going to read through that. He won't filter that out or show that to his leadership and say, "Here's what we're doing." It isn't a helpful report. They're working on it, but it's a poor executive summary."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
Cloudflare is ranked 11th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 56 reviews while Wiz is ranked 2nd in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 11 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub and Lacework. See our Cloudflare vs. Wiz report.
See our list of best Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) vendors.
We monitor all Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.