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From experience, static websites on https://pages.dev are blazing fast (and free); ex: pagespeed result for a static webpage I host: https://archive.is/PkZbO Netifly was equally fast (not free).
Cloudflare is indeed absurdly fast. I haven't been impressed with Netlify's speed, although I am using the free plan (don't think it makes sense to upgrade if I'm already not super happy with performance). When you say paid Netlify is as fast as Cloudflare do you mean the Pro plan or the Enterprise plan? AFAIK the enterprise plans run on a different network, with more distributed servers, although I could be wrong. I…
I was on their £19/mo plan, not Enterprise. And those websites were as fast as the ones on pages.dev.