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DVARA vs Cloudflare

Edge scale vs governance depth.

Cloudflare AI Gateway offers global edge scale and zero-infrastructure setup. DVARA offers what Cloudflare cannot: enterprise governance, compliance, on-prem deployment, data residency, and MCP tool call governance. Choose edge scale or governance depth — only DVARA offers both.

Core Gateway

FeatureDVARACloudflare
Multi-provider unified API
SSE streaming support
Structured outputs across all providers
Intelligent routing (weighted, failover)
Circuit breaker per provider
Response caching

Governance & Compliance

Cloudflare has no governance layer. DVARA makes governance the architecture.

FeatureDVARACloudflare
Policy-as-Code engine
Immutable HMAC-signed audit trail
PII detection and redaction
SOC2 / HIPAA / GDPR evidence packages
Prompt firewall + jailbreak detection
Budget caps with enforcement
EU data residency guaranteed

MCP & Agentic Governance

FeatureDVARACloudflare
MCP tool calls proxied and governed
MCP PII scan on arguments + responses
Human approval gate
Agent loop detection + kill switch
Unified LLM + MCP trace
Session management + kill switch

Deployment

Cloudflare is SaaS-only. DVARA deploys anywhere.

FeatureDVARACloudflare
Self-hosted / on-prem deployment
Air-gapped deployment
Kubernetes Helm chart
Multi-region active-active
No vendor lock-in
SSO / SAML / RBAC

The Bottom Line

Cloudflare AI Gateway is fast to set up and globally distributed. But it offers no governance, no compliance, no on-prem option, and permanent vendor lock-in. If you need to prove to an auditor where your data went, enforce PII policies, or govern agent tool calls, Cloudflare has no answer. DVARA does.

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