Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced that Cloudflare has been positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Edge Distribution Platforms.(1) The evaluation was based on specific criteria that analyzed the company’s overall Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.
“The agentic AI era is changing what businesses need from their infrastructure,” said Dane Knecht, chief technology officer at Cloudflare. “Applications need to be fast everywhere, secure by default, deeply connected to data, and ready for both human and AI-driven traffic. Cloudflare was built for this shift, giving developers a single global platform to build, secure, deploy, and scale modern applications close to users, data, and AI models. We believe the next generation of applications will be built on a global platform that’s distributed, programmable, and secure from the start.”
Magic Quadrant reports are a culmination of rigorous, fact-based research in specific markets, providing a wide-angle view of the relative positions of providers in markets where growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct. Providers are positioned into four quadrants: Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries and Niche Players. The research enables you to get the most from market analysis in alignment with your unique business and technology needs.
View a complimentary copy of the Magic Quadrant report to learn more about Cloudflare’s strengths and cautions, among other provider offerings, at https://www.cloudflare.com/lp/gartner-magic-quadrant-edge-distribution-2026/.
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- Source: Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Edge Distribution Platforms,” Amol Nerlekar, Brandon Medford, Jimmy Chuang, November 4, 2026.
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
Learn more about Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud at cloudflare.com/connectivity-cloud. Learn more about the latest Internet trends and insights at https://radar.cloudflare.com.
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