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SASE platform (Access, Gateway, WARP) · Cloudflare Inc., San Francisco, United States
Cloudflare Zero Trust sits on one of the largest edges in the world. Access, Gateway and WARP are mature, the free tier is generous, and if you already terminate traffic at Cloudflare the integration is natural. For scale and global reach it is the reference point.
Polfence is the smaller, European alternative. It runs entirely in the EU under an EU-owned company, so there is no data localisation add-on to buy and no CLOUD Act question to answer. It adds things Cloudflare does not focus on, such as dyndns2 dynamic DNS, plain WireGuard router configs, an obfuscated tunnel, consent-gated remote desktop and public status pages, and it prices as a flat plan.
Reviewed September 2026. Cloudflare Zero Trust details are taken from public documentation; plans and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you decide.
| Capability | Polfence | Cloudflare Zero Trust |
|---|---|---|
| EU data residency, EU-owned vendor | Yes Polish company, hosted in Paris and Amsterdam | Partial US company; EU data localisation available as an add-on |
| GDPR DPA included | Yes Available in the dashboard | Yes Published DPA |
| NIS2 readiness report | Yes Article 21 assessment + printable report | No |
| ZTNA, per-app least privilege | Yes | Yes |
| Device posture checks | Yes Disk encryption, firewall, screen lock, OS version | Yes |
| Just-in-time access | Yes Request, approve, time-boxed grant | Partial Temporary authentication with an approver flow in Access policies |
| SSO + SCIM provisioning | Yes OIDC (Entra ID, Google, Okta) + SCIM 2.0 | Yes |
| DPI-resistant tunnel | Yes Perimeter engine, obfuscated WireGuard | Check vendor WARP over WireGuard or MASQUE; not marketed as obfuscation |
| Site-to-site router configs (plain WireGuard) | Yes UniFi, MikroTik, pfSense, OPNsense, OpenWrt | Partial Magic WAN and WARP Connector; no plain WireGuard export |
| DNS filtering resolver | Yes Polfence Shield, DoH, EU upstream | Yes Gateway DNS policies |
| Authoritative DNS + zone kill switch | Yes | Partial Authoritative DNS; no one-click zone kill switch |
| Dynamic DNS (dyndns2) | Yes | Partial Via API scripts; no dyndns2 endpoint |
| Remote desktop | Yes Polfence Connect, consent-gated | Partial Browser RDP to servers through Access |
| Uptime monitors + public status pages | Yes HTTP/TCP/DNS, public /s/ pages, badge | Partial Health checks for load balancing; no public status pages |
| Public API | Yes REST v1 + OpenAPI | Yes |
| Audit trail + signed webhooks | Yes HMAC-signed, Slack/Teams/JSON, CSV export | Yes Logpush to SIEM |
| Pricing model | Flat plan per account: Free, Pro and Business monthly. Enterprise on request. | Free up to a user cap; then per user, plus add-ons |
available partly or with limits not offered unsure, check vendor— not applicable
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