diff --git a/provider/cloudflare/cloudflare.go b/provider/cloudflare/cloudflare.go
index c32026b0a..d910226fc 100644
--- a/provider/cloudflare/cloudflare.go
+++ b/provider/cloudflare/cloudflare.go
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ func (p *CloudFlareProvider) ApplyChanges(ctx context.Context, changes *plan.Cha
 	for i, desired := range changes.UpdateNew {
 		current := changes.UpdateOld[i]
 
-		add, remove, leave := difference(current.Targets, desired.Targets)
+		add, remove, leave := provider.Difference(current.Targets, desired.Targets)
 
 		for _, a := range add {
 			cloudflareChanges = append(cloudflareChanges, p.newCloudFlareChange(cloudFlareCreate, desired, a))
diff --git a/provider/provider.go b/provider/provider.go
index 29debdb5c..74f691164 100644
--- a/provider/provider.go
+++ b/provider/provider.go
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ func EnsureTrailingDot(hostname string) string {
 
 // Tells which entries need to be respectively
 // added, removed, or left untouched for "current" to be transformed to "desired"
-func difference(current, desired []string) (add []string, remove []string, leave []string) {
+func Difference(current, desired []string) (add []string, remove []string, leave []string) {
 	index := make(map[string]struct{}, len(current))
 	for _, x := range current {
 		index[x] = struct{}{}
diff --git a/provider/provider_test.go b/provider/provider_test.go
index e9f8deb9b..57d48e70e 100644
--- a/provider/provider_test.go
+++ b/provider/provider_test.go
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ func TestEnsureTrailingDot(t *testing.T) {
 func TestDifference(t *testing.T) {
 	current := []string{"foo", "bar"}
 	desired := []string{"bar", "baz"}
-	add, remove, leave := difference(current, desired)
+	add, remove, leave := Difference(current, desired)
 	assert.Equal(t, add, []string{"baz"})
 	assert.Equal(t, remove, []string{"foo"})
 	assert.Equal(t, leave, []string{"bar"})