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Argo Smart Routing is a one-click solution to speed up your global traffic.

To enable Argo Smart Routing ↗ in the dashboard:

  1. Log in to your Cloudflare dashboard ↗ and select your account and domain.

  2. Go to Traffic > Argo Smart Routing.

  3. For Argo Smart Routing, switch the toggle to On.

  4. Provide your billing information.

    • If you do not have a billing profile, enter your billing information.

    • If you have a billing profile, confirm your billing information.

Enterprise customers can preview this product as a non-contract service, which provides full access, free of metered usage fees, limits, and certain other restrictions.

Billing

If Cloudflare mitigates attacks on your site - whether through DDoS protection, the WAF, or other mechanisms - that traffic will not be included in any charges for Argo Smart Routing.

Since this is a service with usage-based billing, Cloudflare recommends that you set up usage-based billing notifications to avoid unexpected bills.

To set up those notifications:

  1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard ↗.

  2. Select your account.

  3. Go to Notifications.

  4. On Alert Type of Usage Based Billing, click Select.

  5. Fill out the following information:

    • Name
    • Product
    • Notification limit (exact metric will vary based on product)
    • Notification email

    Some plans also have access to alerts through PagerDuty and Webhooks.

  6. Select Save.

Enable Tiered Cache

Cache works by storing a copy of website content at Cloudflare's data centers. Tiered Cache divides these data centers into a hierarchy based on location. This behavior allows Cloudflare to deliver content from data centers closest to your visitor.

Argo Smart Routing and Tiered Cache work together to provide the most efficient connection for visitors to your site. For more information, go to Tiered Cache.