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Published: april 13, 2026

Cloudflare Leader in the Forrester Wave™ Report in Edge Development Platforms, Q1 2026

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Cloudflare has been recognized as a Leader in the prestigious report “The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q1 2026”. This is one of the most influential technology market assessments, comprehensively evaluating edge platform providers based on their technological capabilities, strategies, and development potential.

This recognition confirms Cloudflare’s consistent and clear vision of a serverless strategy focused on performance, user proximity, and the speed of developer teams.

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RECOGNITION OF CLOUDFLARE IN THE REPORT

As the report indicates, Cloudflare is best suited for organizations developing:

edge-first applications,
APIs,
solutions requiring high performance and low latency.

One of the most tangible proofs of the quality of the Cloudflare platform is the scores in the report. The company received the highest score of 5.0/5.0 in 12 criteria, including:

developer experience,
initiation and deployment,
state and storage management,
scalability and flexibility,
performance and latency optimization,
security and permission management,
AI-based application development.

EDGE COMPUTING

From the IT market perspective, Edge computing is becoming a key element of companies’ digital strategy. For organizations, this translates into specific possibilities:

building faster and more responsive applications,
simplifying IT architecture, for instance, through the use of serverless models,
increasing security levels with built-in protection mechanisms,
preparing infrastructure for AI growth and real-time analytics (e.g., by processing data closer to its source).

Thanks to platforms like Cloudflare, organizations can:

implement solutions globally without building their own infrastructure,
use ready-made components and services,
automatically scale systems according to demand.

Recognizing Cloudflare as a leader in the Forrester Wave™ Q1 2026 report is a significant signal for the entire technology market. It shows that the future of applications is increasingly moving towards a distributed architecture where performance, user proximity, and the speed of innovation delivery are crucial.

For organizations building modern, scalable, and secure solutions, this means the growing importance of the edge-first approach and platforms that enable its effective implementation. We invite you to contact us – as a distributor of Cloudflare solutions, we’d be happy to show you how to utilize Cloudflare’s capabilities in practice and tailor them to your business goals!

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