Porkbun vs Cloudflare
Across 20 TLDs both registrars sell, Porkbun is cheaper on 14 over three years and Cloudflare on 6.
Porkbun and Cloudflare Registrar are the two names that come up whenever somebody works out what a domain should actually cost, and they arrive there by different routes. Cloudflare sells at registry cost with no markup at all: a .com renews at $10.46 against a wholesale price of $10.26 plus the $0.18 ICANN fee, which is a margin of two cents. It can do that because domains are not the product; they are a way to bring you into a platform that sells DNS, WAF, Workers and Pages. The catch is the same shape as the discount. Cloudflare will not sell you a domain it cannot host, it offers no first-year promotions, and transfers in require moving DNS to Cloudflare. Porkbun charges a genuine but small margin, around 6% on a .com at $11.08, and gives you a registrar that behaves like one: free WHOIS privacy, free SSL, email forwarding, an API that works, and support that answers. On a single domain the gap is under a dollar a year. Across fifty domains it is still under fifty dollars, which is less than an hour of anybody's time. The honest split is that Cloudflare wins on price and loses on flexibility, and Porkbun charges a rounding error for being a normal registrar. Where Porkbun clearly leads is first-year pricing on newer TLDs, where it discounts and Cloudflare does not: .io opens at $28.12 against Cloudflare's flat $50.
| Source | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| .com | $11.08 | $11.08 | $33.24 | $10.46 | $10.46 | $31.38 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .ai | $82.70 | $82.70 | $248.10 | $80.00 | $80.00 | $240.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .io | $28.12 | $51.80 | $131.72 | $50.00 | $50.00 | $150.00 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .dev | $8.75 | $12.87 | $34.49 | $12.20 | $12.20 | $36.60 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .org | $7.98 | $11.84 | $31.66 | $8.50 | $11.20 | $30.90 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .net | $12.52 | $12.52 | $37.56 | $11.86 | $11.86 | $35.58 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .co | $15.76 | $31.20 | $78.16 | $15.00 | $30.00 | $75.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .app | $8.75 | $14.93 | $38.61 | $14.20 | $14.20 | $42.60 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .xyz | $2.04 | $14.21 | $30.46 | $12.30 | $11.20 | $34.70 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .me | $17.27 | $17.27 | $51.81 | $16.56 | $16.56 | $49.68 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .cloud | $3.88 | $21.11 | $46.10 | $20.20 | $20.20 | $60.60 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .online | $1.96 | $28.84 | $59.64 | $27.70 | $27.70 | $83.10 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .site | $1.96 | $28.84 | $59.64 | $27.70 | $27.70 | $83.10 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .tech | $6.99 | $50.98 | $108.95 | $49.20 | $49.20 | $147.60 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .shop | $2.06 | $31.41 | $64.88 | $30.20 | $30.20 | $90.60 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .store | $2.57 | $43.77 | $90.11 | $42.20 | $42.20 | $126.60 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .info | $3.60 | $22.14 | $47.88 | $21.20 | $21.20 | $63.60 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .blog | $2.57 | $21.11 | $44.79 | $20.20 | $20.20 | $60.60 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .live | $2.57 | $26.26 | $55.09 | $25.20 | $25.20 | $75.60 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .studio | $11.84 | $32.44 | $76.72 | $31.20 | $31.20 | $93.60 | Porkbun | ↗ |
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