{"rid":"egress/cloudflare-spectrum","card":{"rid":"egress/cloudflare-spectrum","eid":"cloudflare","topic":"egress","slug":"cloudflare-spectrum","provider":"Cloudflare Spectrum","url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/","domain":"cloudflare.com","category":"L4 anycast proxy (TCP/UDP)","tier":"enterprise","verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"documented","binding":"write-gated","identity_kind":"institution","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":1,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest,cli","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-23","stale_on":"2026-11-22","n_evidence":2,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Custom TCP/UDP applications require an Enterprise plan with Spectrum as a paid add-on.","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":2},"record":{"topic":"egress","slug":"cloudflare-spectrum","provider":"Cloudflare Spectrum","url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/","category":"L4 anycast proxy (TCP/UDP)","tier":"enterprise","free_tier":{"stated":"Custom TCP/UDP applications require an Enterprise plan with Spectrum as a paid add-on.","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/protocols-per-plan/","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":""},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"No byte allowance is published. The plan table gives 'TCP' and 'UDP' as 'Paid add-on' on Enterprise and 'No' on Free, Pro and Business; Enterprise Spectrum is metered per GB at an unpublished rate.; ingress: tcp+udp","metered":false,"free_allowance":"none published","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/"},"interface":["rest","cli"],"interface_detail":"configured through the Cloudflare dashboard or the API; Spectrum applications are created per protocol and port","tooling":"Cloudflare dashboard or API; no client-side daemon","chaining":"composes with any free VM as the origin: the VM keeps its own address private and the anycast address is the published one, which is what a WireGuard or game endpoint needs.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"custom TCP/UDP needs an Enterprise plan with Spectrum as a paid add-on","source":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/"}],"limits_note":"","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"No byte count fails at 1 TiB/month; the Enterprise contract is the gate. The only sub-Enterprise route is a Pro or Business plan, where Spectrum is limited to a single Minecraft app (UDP for Bedrock) and a single SSH app.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"An Enterprise contract with Cloudflare sales, plus a domain on Cloudflare. The Pro and Business plans carry Spectrum only for 'Minecraft (one app allowed)' and 'SSH (one app allowed)'.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"none recorded","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The support matrix and the Enterprise requirement are on the pages read today. The per-GB rate and the Pro add-on price are not published, so the cost side stays unverified.","evidence":[{"url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Spectrum provides security and acceleration for any TCP or UDP based application, and custom TCP/UDP applications require an Enterprise plan with Spectrum as a paid add-on"},{"url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/protocols-per-plan/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Availability: No on Free, Paid add-on on Enterprise; TCP and UDP are No on Pro and Business; Minecraft (one app allowed) and SSH (one app allowed) are Yes on Pro and Business"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"unpublished (Enterprise contract)","notes":"The benchmark. Cloudflare Magic Transit is the adjacent product and is not a substitute: it takes a /24 and BGP or GRE from the customer, where Spectrum takes an origin IP and a port. Two things stay open: the Enterprise per-GB rate, and whether the Pro-tier Minecraft slot is usable for a Bedrock (UDP) server rather than only Java (TCP) - the table names the game, not the protocol.","extras":{"wg_path":"inside-udp","wg_detail":"Spectrum forwards arbitrary UDP to an origin port, so a WireGuard listener on the origin is reachable through the anycast address; no .conf is issued.","ingress":"tcp+udp","volume_tib_month":null,"volume_stated":"No byte allowance is published. The plan table gives 'TCP' and 'UDP' as 'Paid add-on' on Enterprise and 'No' on Free, Pro and Business; Enterprise Spectrum is metered per GB at an unpublished rate.","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"Cloudflare carries the bytes between its edge and the origin"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}