SMART ROUTING
When to use Argo
Ideal candidates
Uncacheable or API-heavy traffic, a distant or single origin, or a global audience hitting one region.
Under the hood
Cloudflare continuously measures paths (timed TCP probes) and steers each request over the fastest route across its private backbone.
Argo vs Orpheus
Orpheus (on by default, all plans) routes around origin-reachability failures prioritizing reliability. Argo is the paid performance layer, optimized for speed.
Comes packaged with
Argo includes Tiered Cache and ships as part of the Smart Shield bundle.
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