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.
It seems at least part of the noticed difference in speed has to do with my region, as pagespeed insights gives me sub-second FCP and LCP on my Netlify website [0], which feels a bit better than what I get at home (with 500mbps fiber). It's possible my ISP is at fault, but I'm not sure how I could diagnose this much better.
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.
It seems at least part of the noticed difference in speed has to do with my region, as pagespeed insights gives me sub-second FCP and LCP on my Netlify website [0], which feels a bit better than what I get at home (with 500mbps fiber). It's possible my ISP is at fault, but I'm not sure how I could diagnose this much better.
[0]: https://archive.ph/IF0t5