Cloudflare WARP
Ranked 4 of 15 VPN services by recommenders
Free app that routes your traffic through Cloudflare's network, used to get past blocked or broken sites. Critics say Cloudflare can see your traffic and the app has been buggy.
Free app that routes your traffic through Cloudflare's network, used to get past blocked or broken sites. Critics say Cloudflare can see your traffic and the app has been buggy.
28 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 18
- criticize it
- 10
- approval share
- 64%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 18 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Gets past blocked or broken sites
“just use a VPN or something like Cloudflare Wrap to change your ip - this should fix the issue.”
Comment from 27 Nov 2025 in “Linux Kernel Explorer” “I have been using Clouflare WARP successfully to bypass this block”
Comment from 30 Apr 2026 in “Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga” “I did manage with Cloudflare's WARP, now is called Cloudflare One”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times” - Comment from 22 Apr 2026 in “Deploying to IPv6-Only Hetzner with Kamal and Ansible”
- Comment from 18 Sep 2026 in “AI safety is mostly a sex cult”
- Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues”
- Comment from 8 May 2026 in “Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users”
Used as a tunnel for SSH
“one other trick it to use a cf warp tunnel to get v4”
Comment from 22 Apr 2026 in “Deploying to IPv6-Only Hetzner with Kamal and Ansible” “For SSH/Mosh, for example, I chose a WARP tunnel.”
Comment from 7 Dec 2025 in “Carrier-grade NAT: The Killer of the "Homelab"”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Breaks some sites and webapps
“Cloudflare Warp has been more of an issue for a small webapp I run than residential proxies.”
Comment from 3 Oct 2026 in “Cloudflare OHTTP gateway” “if i turn off my vpn, it works, but the vpn is cloudflare's own WARP. strange”
Comment from 6 Jul 2026 in “Has_not_been_viewed_much” “had to turn it off to access most of the websites i visit daily”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues” - Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?”
Cloudflare sees traffic; privacy concerns
“By subletting their own IP addresses for navigation with warp, and their own domains for hosting of webcontent”
Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “Cloudflare Drop” “allowing Cloudflare to terminate TLS seemed incongruent with self-hosting everything else”
Comment from 20 Jan 2026 in “Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models” “it seems like WARP is also a vpn-like service, just a cloud one”
Comment from 7 Dec 2025 in “Carrier-grade NAT: The Killer of the "Homelab"” - Comment from 24 Apr 2026 in “Surely no brand is more hated by web users that Cloudflare”
Buggy, vibecoded app
“suffered a similar downgrade recently when it went from a nifty menubar app on macOS to a vibecoded window built with flutter”
Comment from 27 Sep 2026 in “Tells of a Slop UI” “still had insane bugs such as randomly wiping its entire configuration on OS reboot”
Comment from 27 Sep 2026 in “Tells of a Slop UI”
Other VPN services people recommend
The four most recommended other VPN services, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mullvad VPN | 255 | 146 | 64% | 12 | 4.5 yrs4 owners | — |
| Proton VPN | 63 | 35 | 64% | 13 | 3 yrs4 owners | — |
| iCloud Private Relay | 26 | 20 | 57% | 11 | — | — |
| Cloudflare WARPThis page | 18 | 10 | 64% | 7 | — | — |
| Firefox VPN | 16 | 22 | 42% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
26 of the 30 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Cloudflare Warp has been more of an issue for a small webapp I run than residential proxies.”
“still had insane bugs such as randomly wiping its entire configuration on OS reboot”
“suffered a similar downgrade recently when it went from a nifty menubar app on macOS to a vibecoded window built with flutter”
“Don't think we had any issues with Warp”
“using Cloudflare Warp / 1.1.1.1 can get the article”
“what does this achieve? only thing i can think of is trying to get the user off of WARP”
“it breaks my site for what I think are DNS related reasons”
“technically a free non-privatizing VPN”
“By subletting their own IP addresses for navigation with warp, and their own domains for hosting of webcontent”
“if i turn off my vpn, it works, but the vpn is cloudflare's own WARP. strange”
“I fire up cloudflare warp and walk right through it”
“I have been using Clouflare WARP successfully to bypass this block”
“Cloudflare Warp could quite easily be a honey pot”
“one other trick it to use a cf warp tunnel to get v4”
“I did manage with Cloudflare's WARP, now is called Cloudflare One”
“So nothing new. We can just use cloudflare warp”
“their doc is outdated and changes too frequently”
“the targeted ads dropped noticeably”
“allowing Cloudflare to terminate TLS seemed incongruent with self-hosting everything else”
“a little clunkier but you get argo routing for free and I trust Cloudflare for security”
“it seems like WARP is also a vpn-like service, just a cloud one”
“For SSH/Mosh, for example, I chose a WARP tunnel.”
“just use a VPN or something like Cloudflare Wrap to change your ip - this should fix the issue.”
“Login takes forever but it is working.”
“turning it on appears to fix otherwise broken sites”
“had to turn it off to access most of the websites i visit daily”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.