New Site Radar vs Cloudflare Radar
Disclosure: we build New Site Radar. Everything below about Cloudflare Radar comes from its public pages as we read them on October 3, 2026 (sources at the bottom). Products change; if something here is out of date, email hello@newsiteradar.com and we will fix it.
Cloudflare Radar is a free hub for Internet traffic, attack and technology trends, with domain rankings based on DNS queries to its 1.1.1.1 resolver. New Site Radar instead follows a defined group of recently registered AI tool websites gaining traffic, ranked monthly.
Side by side
- What it tracks
- New Site Radar: AI tool sites registered in 2025 or later that are gaining traffic
- Cloudflare Radar: Internet traffic, attack and technology trends; its Domain Rankings, based on DNS queries to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 resolver, list the top 100 domains globally and per country (updated daily) and unordered lists of the top 200 up to the top 1,000,000 domains (updated weekly)
- Interface language
- New Site Radar: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese
- Cloudflare Radar: English (other languages not checked)
- Paid plan
- New Site Radar: Pro $19/month or $149/year
- Cloudflare Radar: Free: the documentation says the Radar API is free; no paid Radar plan is listed on the pages we checked
- Free plan
- New Site Radar: 20-site monthly sample of the rankings, every site page, watchlist of 10 sites
- Cloudflare Radar: Domain rankings worldwide and by location on the website, including lists of domains trending today (a surge in interest) and this week (growth in popularity over the week), and a CSV download of the top 100
- Second-source check of traffic numbers
- New Site Radar: Yes: traffic is compared with a second, independent source (search-traffic estimates, or Tranco rank for brand-driven sites); sites only one source covers are labelled; site owners can request a correction, with review outcomes shown on the site page.
- Cloudflare Radar: Not described on the pages we checked
- Revenue view
- New Site Radar: Detected payment provider and real pricing, with a modelled revenue range and its confidence
- Cloudflare Radar: Not described on the pages we checked
- API / MCP
- New Site Radar: Remote MCP server, 7 read-only tools; free accountless key: 20 calls/day, Pro-only fields hidden; Pro keys: no daily cap.
- Cloudflare Radar: Free Radar API (data under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license); Cloudflare also lists a remote Radar MCP server
When Cloudflare Radar is the better fit
- You need domain rankings based on DNS queries to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 resolver.
- You want "trending today" and "trending this week" domain lists.
When New Site Radar is the better fit
- You want AI tool sites that launched recently and are starting to grow, before they are well known.
- You want to know how far to trust each number: every figure is checked against a second source where one exists, and the evidence is on the site page (see the methodology).
- You want to query the data from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex over MCP.
Try it: the growth rankings have a free monthly sample, and Pro shows the full board.
Sources
- Cloudflare Radar domain rankings page: https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains (checked October 3, 2026)
- Cloudflare Radar documentation: https://developers.cloudflare.com/radar/ (checked October 3, 2026)
- Cloudflare Radar domain rankings documentation: https://developers.cloudflare.com/radar/investigate/domain-ranking-datasets/ (checked October 3, 2026)
- Cloudflare MCP servers page: https://developers.cloudflare.com/agents/model-context-protocol/cloudflare/servers-for-cloudflare/ (checked October 3, 2026)
- New Site Radar: pricing, methodology