Is Zipper a Cloudflare alternative?

Yes — as a workspace-priced control plane with Cloudflare-shaped jobs. Honest production is two VPS nodes: application-layer DDoS and WAF, in-process cache, DNS-JSON (not port 53), and image delivery (not transcoding). It is not anycast or a GPU LLM farm. 22 named services plus Palace Guard.

How is pricing cheaper than Cloudflare?

Starter is US$5/mo for 8 hostnames versus Cloudflare Pro US$20 per domain. Business is US$19/mo for 40 hostnames versus Cloudflare Business US$200 per domain. Workers, Load Balancing, and Stream are not separate Zipper SKUs.

No. Hostnames (zones) are included in the plan quota. You are not billed per domain the way Cloudflare Pro (US$20) and Business (US$200) are.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Free includes all 22 services, 2 zones, 2 TB of Crown egress, 50,000 Portcullis challenges, Palace Guard scans, and no credit card.

What is the cheapest paid Zipper plan?

Starter is US$5 per month (US$50 billed yearly) with 8 hostnames. That is below Cloudflare Pro and products such as Vercel Pro or Netlify Pro, and you are not billed per domain.

Can I replace Cloudflare Workers, Pages, and Turnstile?

Yes. Edge Functions maps to Workers, Site Hosting maps to Pages, and Portcullis maps to Turnstile. Origin Connect maps to Tunnel. Palace Guard is Zipper’s edge antivirus — Cloudflare has no analogue. Guides live in /docs.

How do I migrate from Cloudflare to Zipper?

Copy DNS into The Herald, proxy through The Crown, swap Turnstile for Portcullis, and point Workers at Edge Functions. Step-by-step: https://tinyzipper.com/docs/migrate-from-cloudflare.

Alternative to Neon

Zipper is a Neon alternative.

Zipper The Cellar is a Neon alternative: overlay branches without a public Postgres socket. World's first sealed Postgres — capability seals, default-deny RLS, included on Free.

1. No :5432. Queries are HTTP statements authenticated by a seal. Neon still exposes the Postgres wire protocol.
2. Overlay branches. Forking preview copies nothing. Writes overlay parent rows. Same job as Neon branching, implemented as sealed documents on Zipper A.
3. On the workspace bill. Starter includes 5 cellars plus CDN, WAF, and hosting. Not a second vendor.

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