Cloudflare WARP Review
Community-sourced VPN review based on real Reddit & Twitter discussions
Cloudflare WARP has a “good when it works” reputation, especially for people who want a quick, simple way to stabilize their connection. It’s often praised for feeling fast and helping with annoying r...
What the Community Says
Cloudflare WARP has a “good when it works” reputation, especially for people who want a quick, simple way to stabilize their connection. It’s often praised for feeling fast and helping with annoying routing issues—some gamers say it reduces disconnects and can even make rough ping situations feel better. People also like that it encrypts your traffic without constantly swapping your public IP like a typical “hide-my-location” VPN.
The big catch is that it’s not the most reliable “do-everything” VPN: some sites and apps don’t play nicely with it, and a few services just block it outright. It can also be hit-or-miss for bypassing censorship—sometimes it works, sometimes it slows to a crawl or fails depending on the network firewall. And if you need help, Cloudflare’s customer support and communication style can rub people the wrong way.
Strengths
- Fast, stable connection
- Helps with gaming disconnects and routing issues
- Simple to set up on phones and PCs
- Good basic encryption without “location hopping”
Weaknesses
- Doesn’t work with some websites and apps
- Not a reliable streaming VPN
- Censorship bypass can be slow or inconsistent
- Customer support reputation is rough
Summary generated 1 week ago from 148 community mentions
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50 reviews"I've said/posted multiple times already that the ddos aren't happening specifically to FF14, but to a NTT node somewhere in NA. I've been playing with Cloudflare Warp since Dec 26 and only been disconnected twice on the day my server, Diabolos, had technical issues on its end. Otherwise, I haven't been dc'd once since then. On the other hand, my husband did multiple times a day whether he was playing something on Steam, Diablo 4, Path of Exile 2 and even Dungeons and Dragons Online. He even had instances of PayPal being down while shopping. All at the same time as I would see people go pokeba..."
"Everyone I know on NA that's raided so far today using that cloudflare warp thing has gotten zero disconnects. That tool is definitely helping fix what SE couldn't bother"
"No network problem at all for me. I live in Southeast Asia and play in Asia server. I get consistent 21ms ping. I recommend trying using Cloudflare WARP when playing the game, for me WARP always make the network smoother"
"I found Cloudflare WARP on Android to be pretty nice. It has split-tunnelling feature for both IP/domain and Apps. I haven't seen another app that does IP on Android. You can't chooose location, so the use case is for connecting from open VPN's. You don't even have to create an account and data is unlimited."
"I had a hunch it was an ISP issue. I was going insane & reinstalled the whole damn game. Thanks for confirming that it's not my computer & bless cloudflare..."
"Is anyone having the same problem with me… I can’t load messages on discord using WARP/cloudflare </3 this fucc ass app."
"@windscribecom man just use warp by cloudflare encrypted tunnel, fast."
"@gunbreakmyheart cloudflare warp totally saved my ass last night, i stopped dc'ing"
"I hate to say this right now, but its not a joke. For anyone concerned. Cloudflare warp is 100% free and does seem to solve alot of disconnecting. It's a very small program that you simply flip on when playing 14 and flip off when not. Seriously, make your life easy, download it"
"with cloudflare warp and vrcvideocacher but it doesnt play youtube livestreams or twitch streams or ANYTHING but youtube videos for 8-16 seconds this is a cry for help"
"@UK_Daniel_Card using that won't get your account banned. cloudflare even provides it for free with WARP, plus you don't get the *100k/day request limit and it's very stable."
"haven't been ddos'd once!!! very based cloudflare warp"
"cloudflare warp definitely helps good LORD"
"Cloudflare warp, the king of anti-ddos baby."
"the way i’ve dodged every ddos since i got cloudflare warp https://t.co/xEzCUP5Re8"
"@RathGames Download Cloudflare WARP and use it. It's free and has prevented me from getting disconnected from DDOS."
"ok cloudflare warp is actually great"
"I've been using Cloudflare Warp to get around the blocks. It encrypts your traffic, but still uses your IP address, so you don't get these issues."
"PSA: For everyone in Germany/Europe having problems starting the game/logging in Many report having problems starting the game. The cause of this seems to be a routing issue of the german internet provider Telekom. You can work around this issue by using a VPN. Cloudflare Warp would be a free alternative. You only need to have the VPN active until you are in the character selection screen, then you can turn it off. Turning it on/off while logged in will disconnect you from the game, so just keep that in mind."
"Cloudflare warp builds a wireguard tunnel with ease... They just download and login basically"
"Yeeeeeeeeah...... nope. Changing DNSs does not make a lick of a difference. Wasting mobile data via hotspot doesn't work - whether it's raw (T is T no matter what, I guess) *or* using Cloudflare *or* using Proton: launcher itself *may* load a little faster, but it's just as likely to be just as slow and crapped-out as otherwise, with the login frame empty or telling me to restart it or just straight-up vomiting error codes after several minutes. Yesterday it took me *nine hours* of trying to get in, and in all that time I could even enter my OTP exactly *eight* times. This is ri-goddamn-dicu..."
"Most of this is correct. Thank you. Cloudflare doesn’t sell their infrastructure in the way AWS does. I’d also like to point out that cloudflare also has exceedingly terrible customer service— but Fastly is pretty big in Japan and I believe square uses their services already at least for patch content distribution. Which again protects squares origin servers. But that being said, CDNs also just black hole ddos attacks. It’s pretty much the standard way of dealing with them. I don’t know why people think cloud flare or square enix or ntt could magically fix this, a thing that has pl..."
"Cloudflare tunnels and authentik are your best friends. I expose as little as possible and often will just make a webpage display on a home assistant dashboard. When the user loads the home assistant dashboard it pings from the HA instance so you can use a local IP and display it remotely."
"Cloudflare WARP has been nerfed"
"@T3chFalcon no need to use vpn even, just use cloudflare warp for free"
"nvm my cloudflare warp is tweakin and dcing me every other pull..."
"You can literally pick it up off the windows app store or download it from the website. It is as easy as -Download -Install -Check you icons in the lower right hand of your taskbar (or left potentially) and flip Cloudflare WARP on. It takes sub 2 minutes."
"@TaleraRis @_iroira That is true although I can vouch for Cloudflare Warp, I only got one DC after playing for over 13 hours of prog yesterday."
"I really wanted to use Cloudflare containers for my new relay server but its tech is severely limited. Fortunately, fly(dot)io had exactly what I needed. Low-level network access. Guess ill just build a better Warp+"
"great job now they’re ddosing the cloudflare warp servers"
"@gunbreakmyheart Cloudflare Warp is working for most of my group!"
"Guys use cloudflare 1.1.1.1 warp VPN. It's available on both windows and android"
"@Simonblox Hey Simoon, first of all welcome to Türkiye. Second of all I recommend you that you should use Warp made by Cloudflare to get yourself saved from it."
"@justvamsi7 @Fortinet Use warp cloudflare"
"@seremptos @__alula cloudflare warp has our backs"
"When I enable Cloudflare WARP (secure tunnel), the SAME websites open instantly — which proves Airtel’s DNS / network is blocking or breaking Cloudflare / Akamai based sites."
"Shout out cloudflare warp"
"@lizyeld @franticworry @Lewislegal2024 @ScottDuhig @j_wallwork @UKinjustice2025 @SpokenInjustice @rluthersmith @hanksoff03 @seanbwparker @KingOfHits @lawrencepatihis @Aguirre115622 WARP by Cloudflare is handy if you are being blocked for some reason via your internet provider. Its a free VPN that is simple to download and use."
"@SageTreacherous @FF_XIV_EN People tried that, OCE got DDoSed in the process. Just use warp from Cloudflare, no sense in using a 3rd party plugin."
"Cloudflare warp is 100% required to play final fantasy fourteen i love being ddosed from ffxiv constantly disconnecting from ff xiv grats jp"
"I was on Cloudflare Warp network and it didn't allow me to access Hotstar 🥲"
"The good VPNs are paid. While it's possible to make a free VPN work, it might not be worth the risk (if you're say, in Germany). If your risk level is a bit lower, say in the USA, you could give Cloudflare WARP a try. But no matter what you use, you MUST bind your torrent client to your VPN. If youre not willing to do this, don't bother torrenting, you will get caught. https://rentry.org/torrentvpn"
"Your VPN is turned on. Somehow the site doesn't work if you have VPN or Cloudflare WARP turned on."
"Cloudflare Warp works, and it even gives you a Chinese IP address while still letting you connect to the internet. But it's slow because your wireguard data is being slowed down by the firewall (2 Mbps). You could also run one yourself at home, which should also work fine. Most of the time I used that in China (L2TP/IPSec connection). NordVPN did not work at all, not even on the hidden sites."
"Try changing your DNS server to cloudflare and see if that helps, you can also try using cloudflare WARP on pc. remember to restart PC and flush DNS as well before trying"
"I tried cloudflare warp vpn it helped but it was not efficient like exitlag i was getting 300-400ms ping"
"Yeah, I am debating just getting an ExitLag subscription. I've been using Cloudflare WARP and Proton VPN, but it also doesn't work 100% of the time..."
"1. Most truly fileless malware is that targeting Windows - these are usually compiled-on-the-fly .NET assemblies or similar that are then reflectively loaded into another process as a DLL. CobaltStrike beacons do this really well. There aren't too many analogues for MacOS. Generally, you'll detect these by the commands they utilize to leverage loading resident into memory. A good example of something like this would be a byte array written into a registry key, and then another registry key that has a PowerShell script to call an MSBuild command to then compile and load that into a target proce..."
"its so bad that i would perfer to deal with clourflare's outages shutting the entire internet down for a few minutes thrice a year than getting dropped from XIV multiple times a day year-round"
"Stop reading the cloudflare blog and their claims "biggest attack" every 2 months literally. Please."