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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"...https://isdown.app/status/ecobee/incidents/368569-interruption-to-ecobee-mobile-services > Even Cloudflare went down in November https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/ This is not a convenient service. It's absolutely ne..."
"Unfortunately a VPN doesn't help when you visit the same sites and use your same logins. Without setting up a public DNS on your device, like adguard DNS or cloudflares DNS, your ISP can still figure out where youre going as you are using t..."
"I use cloudflared and ask what federated login they’d like to use (Microsoft, Google) and whitelist their email address."
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"I have a custom Cloudflare runner that whitelists people's ip when they visit a specific link (cloudflare zero trust deny all policy with a group of ips that explicitly get granted access. Visiting homelab.xyz?mysecret=123 adds the person's..."
"I bought it for the same price a few days ago and so far I always got the full 250/50 MBits my connection offers. Also it's rock stable. I use it with the Wireguard client on OpenWRT It has a few downsides also: - no IPv6 - their DNS serve..."
"...want something similar *free* use Cloudflare Warp. It’s also audited no log. And the same backend as Apple Relay. This will up your baseline privacy. Not good for geo shifting nor heavy threats. "
"...re available and unrestricted ? I used Cloudflare WARP to circumvent censorship during my vacation while texting with your bots -sorry, customer support agents-. At least you could have said “We’re incompetent when it comes to geoblocking a..."
"I'm with you. OpenVPN sucks ass compared to Wireguard. I've just had trouble keeping it working with my router. Which while super high end a few years ago is still a HOME router. I really wished Cloudflare could have worked. Seemed overly c..."
"It depends how tech literate you are and what you are willing to do to support this. Despite what some people think, most people do not have someone specifically targeting them on the Internet. This means you just need to stop the bots and ..."