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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 19, 2025

Cloudflare and BlueCat Integrity are leading competitors in the realm of network optimization, security, and DNS management. Based on the analysis, Cloudflare appears to have an advantage in terms of ease of deployment across cloud environments and a variety of pricing plans that cater to different business needs, though BlueCat Integrity shines in DNS control and IPAM for large organizations.

Features: Cloudflare provides a comprehensive range of features such as CDN caching, DDoS protection, and traffic management options. It also offers flexibility in DNS management and a user-friendly interface. BlueCat Integrity excels in DNS control and IP address management (IPAM), providing a single pane of glass for IP spaces and flexible automation options. Its Linux foundation ensures robust stability and it integrates effectively with various network infrastructures.

Room for Improvement: Cloudflare could improve its analytics and threat detection features, as well as enhance CDN speed and API integration. Its configuration documentation is often seen as complex by users. BlueCat Integrity is suggested to enhance its automation and reporting capabilities, with users requesting better support for multi-factor authentication and IPv6, as well as a more intuitive GUI.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cloudflare deploys smoothly across public and hybrid clouds, with excellent technical support and detailed online resources. However, users have mixed opinions about its in-depth service. BlueCat Integrity, suited for on-premises and hybrid environments, receives accolades for its responsive and knowledgeable support, but some find it sluggish in complex setups.

Pricing and ROI: Cloudflare offers plans ranging from free options to enterprise levels, providing excellent ROI by reducing downtime and enhancing security. BlueCat Integrity's higher pricing is justified by its detailed DNS and IP management features, leading to reduced downtime and increased reliability. Both solutions offer flexible pricing to suit diverse organizational needs.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

8.8

BlueCat Integrity enhances ROI by reducing ownership costs, downtime, and labor, while increasing reliability and operational efficiency.

Sentiment score

6.5

Cloudflare users experienced increased performance, security, and cost-effectiveness, leading to improved loyalty and revenue despite difficult ROI calculations.

As we are migrating other tools into this one, there can be 30% to 40% cost savings.

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System Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

For the small project I was working on, using the basic tier provided a huge improvement at zero cost.

Wellington Malagutti

Security Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of return on investment with Cloudflare, it costs my time to set them up, but basically once they're set up, it's done.

Herb Angle

Owner at Hga consulting

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.7

BlueCat Integrity offers expert technical support, appreciated for its rapid response and personalized service, but sometimes inconsistent.

Sentiment score

7.0

Cloudflare's customer service is quick, but technical support feedback is mixed, with improvement needed in responsiveness and detailed assistance.

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Cloudflare does not offer hands-on technical support to fix customer problems but rather a self-service model.

reviewer1245303

Senior Consultant CDN at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I would rate the technical support with Cloudflare as excellent every time I've had to call them.

Herb Angle

Owner at Hga consulting

I have primarily worked not with the tool's customer support but with the product's sales engineers and technical sales engineers, who seem to know their stuff.

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Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.4

BlueCat Integrity is scalable and adaptable for diverse environments with efficient expansion, though users note licensing costs and robustness improvements.

Sentiment score

8.1

Users praise Cloudflare for seamless scalability, effective traffic management, easy upgrades, and robust global infrastructure without disruptions.

I would rate the scalability of the solution a seven out of ten.

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System Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

It is a SaaS tool, but the fact that they have workloads deployed across the world proves that it is a highly scalable tool.

Carlos Alam Hernandez Baruch

Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The tool offers very good performance, even during high-traffic periods.

Engineer at SITMEXICO

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

Prajith Chowthee

Independent Consultant at Unaikui

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.5

BlueCat Integrity is highly stable, resilient, and consistently achieves significant uptime, with issues mostly due to external factors.

Sentiment score

7.6

Cloudflare is highly rated for stability and uptime, with few past issues, especially on higher-tier plans.

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I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

Prajith Chowthee

Independent Consultant at Unaikui

The service is very stable with no impacts during high-traffic periods.

Carlos Alam Hernandez Baruch

Engineer at SITMEXICO

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Room For Improvement

BlueCat Integrity needs enhancements in automation, UI, support, IPv6, and ease of use for better functionality.

Enhancements needed in Cloudflare: analytics, CDN latency, API integration, user support, DNS, pricing, documentation, server coverage, WAF, and cache.

The API aspect could be improved with more use cases and better handling of object attributes.

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System Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

Despite these challenges, overall, Cloudflare remains the preferred solution compared to Azure, AWS CloudFront, and Google Cloud Armor.

Bilal Mujahid

Managed Services Manager at Adapture Technology Group

Areas like how assessment, discovery, and payload are dealt with and how it all comes into your organization can be considered when trying to make suggestions to Cloudflare for improvements.

Darryl Wethington

Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Integrated Technology Solution Group (ITSG)

There are some performance considerations when it comes to dynamic content that involves fetching data from databases or using APIs.

Animesh.Kumar

Senior Solutions Architect at Think Power Solutions

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Setup Cost

BlueCat Integrity's pricing is competitive, offering value and cost-effectiveness, with expenses averaging $20,000 annually for large networks.

Cloudflare offers scalable pricing, from free to enterprise plans, providing significant value especially for mid-sized companies.

Our licensing model with BlueCat Integrity is cheaper than Infoblox.

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System Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

I find it to be cheap.

Carlos Alam Hernandez Baruch

Engineer at SITMEXICO

I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

Animesh.Kumar

Senior Solutions Architect at Think Power Solutions

The tool is a premium product, so it is very expensive.

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Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features

BlueCat Integrity provides robust, scalable network management with automation, security features, and minimal maintenance for efficient IT infrastructure handling.

Cloudflare enhances performance and security with CDN caching, DDoS protection, and an easy-to-use dashboard, benefiting many users.

It has an understandable GUI interface.

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System Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable features of the solution are performance and security.

Darryl Wethington

Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Integrated Technology Solution Group (ITSG)

Techniques like minification and image compression reduce the size of assets, leading to better performance and faster user load times.

Animesh.Kumar

Senior Solutions Architect at Think Power Solutions

The solution has been able to compare it to the market, and I think the product has taken great strides in automating quite a bit of things, and they use a lot of AI.

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Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Categories and Ranking

BlueCat Integrity

Ranking in Managed DNS

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools (1st), DDI (1st)

Cloudflare

Ranking in Managed DNS

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

CDN (1st), WAN Optimization (4th), Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (1st), Domain Name System (DNS) Security (5th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Managed DNS category, the mindshare of BlueCat Integrity is 1.5%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloudflare is 32.5%, down from 35.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Managed DNS Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Cloudflare	32.5%
BlueCat Integrity	1.5%
Other	66.0%

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Easy to use, simple licensing, and has a single pane of glass view

System Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is too granular and sometimes complex to configure. We do not always need so many details. Simpler configurations with fewer details would be beneficial. The API aspect could be improved with more use cases and better handling of object attributes. It is already better than in previous versions. Their product team is planning further improvements in the upcoming version 9.6. Last month, we had a roadmap meeting with the BlueCat product team. There will be a lot of improvements in version 9.6 coming in the second half of 2025. We will then upgrade our system to that one. It will have quite a lot of new features.

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Herb Angle

Owner at Hga consulting

Has helped manage client domains with streamlined access control and threat visibility

I don't know what areas could be improved with Cloudflare WAF; Cloudflare is constantly improving and adding features to their feature set. They're doing a good job, and as far as DNS and support for any domains that I create or my clients create, it's mandatory for me to make sure that they have Cloudflare as their DNS provider. The Cloudflare load balancing capability hasn't really helped in enhancing my website's uptime and resiliency because we don't really get that much traffic; it's mostly remote users, and web hosting is done by a web hosting service. It doesn't pay to try to host your own website.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	19

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	46
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	25

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BlueCat Adaptive DNS?

This inherent stability, derived from its Linux-based architecture, provides a well-established and reliable platform.

What needs improvement with BlueCat Adaptive DNS?

They can improve their support for the CDNV application, which is Cloud Discovery and Visibility. I had to chase BlueCat support a lot for this application, and the support was not good. The CDNV a...

What is your primary use case for BlueCat Adaptive DNS?

We use it for getting an IPAM solution in AWS, which is our first use case. The second use case is we also use it for our on-premise networks to manage the IP ranges. We have distributed all the IP...

Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GRE tunnels. We have decreased site load times on Mobile 3G from 8 to 1,6 seconds ...

Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?

Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service that offers great redundancy and advanced security with built-in unmetered and ...

What do you like most about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications.

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Also Known As

BlueCat Adaptive DNS, BlueCat Automation Manager, BlueCat DDI

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Overview

BlueCat Integrity is a comprehensive DNS security solution that provides visibility and control over all DNS traffic on your network. It offers real-time threat detection and response, as well as policy enforcement to ensure compliance with security standards. With its advanced analytics and reporting capabilities, Integrity enables you to identify and mitigate security risks before they can cause damage. It also integrates with other security tools to provide a complete security ecosystem. Whether you're a small business or a large enterprise, BlueCat Integrity can help you protect your network from DNS-based attacks and ensure the integrity of your DNS infrastructure.

BlueCat

Cloudflare enhances web performance and security with features like CDN caching and DDoS mitigation while providing easy DNS management and intuitive setup through its user-friendly dashboard.

Cloudflare is recognized for its comprehensive web security and performance solutions. Speed improvements are achieved through caching mechanisms and DDoS protection, combining ease of DNS management with flexible page rules. The robust analytics and threat insight tools provide valuable data, assisted by a user-friendly dashboard allowing quick setup and configuration. An API offers dynamic DNS settings ensuring low latency and high performance across the globe.

What are Cloudflare's key features?

CDN Caching: Enhances website speed through content delivery network caching.
Web Application Firewall: Protects websites from online threats.
DDoS Mitigation: Shields against distributed denial-of-service attacks.
DNS Management: Offers easy-to-use and flexible domain management.
SSL Certificates: Ensures secure connections between users and servers.
Analytics: Provides insights with robust analytics tools.

What benefits and ROI should users evaluate?

Enhanced Security: Strengthening web security with DDoS and firewall protection.
Speed Improvement: Faster content delivery with CDN caching.
Operational Simplicity: Simplifies website optimization through a user-friendly interface.
Scalable Solutions: Scales with global reach, lowering latency for improved performance.
Cost Efficiency: Offers layers of valuable functionality with pricing options.

Cloudflare finds utility across industries for DNS management and defense mechanisms. Its content delivery network assures fast content distribution and fortified security. Businesses integrate features like web application firewalls, load balancing, end-to-end SSL, and zero trust to protect websites from cyber threats while ensuring resilience and reliable performance.

Sample Customers

Computer Sciences Corporation

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