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See the second answer for a statement from cf https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/88659/how-can-cloudflare-offer-a-free-cdn-with-unlimited-bandwidth

• pier25 6y ago
  I'm familiar with those terms but still. There are people with free accounts moving GBs every month through their network and I imagine those free users must account for a very large percentage of their traffic.
  • fach 6y ago
    I’d imagine at this point they are heavily peered in most markets, driven by said free users, so there isn’t a significant opex hit bandwidth -wise. Space/power opex plus network/compute hardware capex probably dominates their spend.
• ksec 6y ago
  Thank You! The answer was from 2016, and yet this is the first time anyone has posted this every time a similar question was raised on HN over the past few years.