Sucuri operates a cloud WAF that sits in front of a website at the DNS layer. When you point your domain at Sucuri, every request hits its edge before your origin server, which means attack traffic is filtered before it ever reaches your host. The same edge serves as a CDN, so legitimate traffic gets cache benefits at the same time.
What separates Sucuri from a pure-WAF product is the incident-response service included in the subscription. If your site gets infected, Sucuri analysts will clean it manually, with a response SLA tied to your tier. For agencies, this is the differentiator: you can offer a "we will clean it if anything happens" promise without staffing it yourself.
Sucuri requires DNS to be pointed through its network, which means it is not an instant-install option like a plugin. Once DNS is migrated, the WAF, CDN, and monitoring all become active without further configuration. CMS support covers WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Magento.
Category context: Sits in front of the origin via DNS so attack traffic is filtered in the cloud, never reaching your server. Pairs well with a small origin.
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Compare →Sucuri is a cloud-based website security service that combines a Web Application Firewall, CDN, DDoS mitigation, monitoring, and manual malware cleanup. It sits in front of the origin server via DNS, so attack traffic is filtered at the edge before reaching the host. Subscriptions include hands-on incident response with a tier-based SLA.
Sucuri plans start at $199.99 per site per year for the Basic tier (12-hour response SLA) and scale up through Pro and Business tiers that shorten response times and add features. Compared to plugin-based competitors, Sucuri is more expensive because the price includes managed cleanup as a service.
Cloudflare is a general-purpose CDN with a WAF tier; Sucuri is a security-first product with cleanup-as-a-service included. Cloudflare scales further on raw DDoS volume; Sucuri ships hands-on incident response that Cloudflare does not. Many sites use Cloudflare for volumetric traffic and Sucuri (or a server-level WAF) for in-depth defence.
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