Company: NET
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001477333-25-000045
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Company: Cloudflare, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: S-8
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 "smaller reporting company," and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer |     | ☒ |     | Accelerated filer         |     | ☐ |
| Non-accelerated filer   |     | ☐ |     | Smaller reporting company |     | ☐ |
|                         |     |   |     | Emerging growth company   |     | ☐ |

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

### EXPLANATORY NOTE
Cloudflare, Inc. (the “

#### Registrant
”) is filing this Registration Statement on Form S-8 ("

#### Registration Statement
") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “

#### Commission
”) to register (i) 17,242,759 additional shares of its Class A common stock under the 2019 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the "

#### 2019 Plan
"), pursuant to the provisions of the 2019 Plan providing for an automatic increase in the number of shares of Class A common stock reserved and available for issuance under the 2019 Plan on January 1, 2025 and (ii) 3,448,551 additional shares of its Class A common stock under the Amended and Restated 2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "

#### 2019 ESPP
"), pursuant to the provisions of 2019 ESPP providing for an automatic increase in the number of shares of Class A common stock reserved and available for issuance under the 2019 ESPP on January 1, 2025.

These additional shares of Class A common stock are securities of the same class as other securities for which the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-233743) (“

#### Prior Form S-8
”) was filed with the Commission on September 13, 2019.

# PART I

### INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE PROSPECTUS
In accordance with the provisions of Rule 428 under the Securities Act and the instructional note to Part I of Form S-8 as promulgated by the Commission, the information specified by Part I of the Form S-8 has been omitted from this Registration Statement. The documents containing the information specified in Part I of