First-party releases and research from Cloudflare AI. Headlines and excerpts link to the original articles.
Cloudflare released Clef-omni, an open-weight decision model that accepts audio, video, image, and text in a single API call, priced at $0.15 per million input tokens. Clef-flash dropped to $0.038 per million input tokens but its hosted context window shrank from 64k to 24k, while Clef got serving-side speedups of roughly 1.7-2.0x.
Cloudflare shipped 46 announcements during its Birthday Week 2026, held September 28 to October 2, covering open source tooling, post-quantum security, agent monetization, developer platform expansions, and observability. The company also said it intends to become a public certificate authority.
Cloudflare has launched a Web Search API through its AI Gateway in partnership with Ceramic.ai, Exa and Linkup, letting agents pull live web results into model context instead of guessing URLs. Partners must follow Cloudflare's Verified bots and robots.txt standards, and queries are billed at provider list pricing with no markup.
Cloudflare has selected 30 nonprofits for its first non-profit startup cohort, awarding over $7.5 million in credits to civil society organizations building AI and automation tools on its developer services, and is now opening applications for a second cohort.
Cloudflare released Clef and Clef-flash, two open-source decision models hosted on Workers AI, and debuted a reinforcement learning service for fine-tuning Clef. Clef leads the Jev Decision Index and the models are Apache 2.0 licensed on Hugging Face.
Cloudflare is bringing two publicly built European open models, EuroLLM and Apertus, to Workers AI with access requests open now, and launching hands-on AI security workshops for government cyber agencies, starting in Singapore in October.
Cloudflare has opened a waitlist for fully managed Cloudflare OS deployments, letting organizations launch an agent workspace without operating it themselves. The open-source version remains available, and new features add GitHub repository access, Google Workspace improvements, and more export formats.
Cloudflare's AI Search is now generally available, adding native image embeddings, OCR for PDFs, and a file size limit raised to 10 MiB. Billing starts November 1, 2026, with a free monthly allotment on all Workers plans.
Cloudflare overhauled its Registrar domain search to show every supported extension as you type, and expanded its Registrar API plus launched a cf CLI so AI agents can search, register, and transfer domains. Birthday Week discounts on select extensions like .io, .dev, .app and .tech begin this week.
Cloudflare released Auto Router in public beta through AI Gateway; setting a model to cloudflare/auto routes each request to a model deemed capable enough. Cloudflare's internal testing showed up to 30% cost savings versus using only frontier models.
Cloudflare updated AI Gateway's User Insights to flag when a selected model may be more capable than the task requires, with the new capabilities free to AI Gateway users. The companion Auto Router also entered public beta and identifies requests that could run on faster or cheaper models.
Cloudflare has launched a closed beta of its Monetization Gateway, letting domain owners charge AI agents per request using the HTTP 402 Payment Required status code. Payments settle on the Base blockchain in USDC via Coinbase's x402 Facilitator, and the beta is open to eligible U.S.-based sellers and buyers.
Cloudflare has launched Pay Per Use in beta, letting AI companies pay publishers when their content is actually used in products rather than just crawled. Buyers define paid uses and report them via one API; publishers accept or decline offers and are paid monthly.
Cloudflare says non-human traffic has overtaken human traffic on its network, with AI agent requests up more than 1,700% over the past year, and it is shipping granular crawler controls plus two payment betas, Pay Per Use and Monetization Gateway, to let sites charge agents.
Cloudflare built an LLM-driven WAF tester that ran 1,107 mutation attempts across 45 scenarios on a customer staging environment; 558 requests were blocked and 49 findings survived human triage, leading to three Managed Ruleset changes.
Cloudflare released Vinext 1.0, a Vite-based framework for running any Next.js app on platforms including Cloudflare Workers, Netlify or AWS Lambda. Compatibility with both the App and Pages Router now exceeds 99% for most customer-requested features, with migration done via the vinext check and init commands.
Cloudflare marks its 16th birthday with a founders' letter reporting that automated traffic is now projected to overtake human traffic in May 2026, moved up from a prior forecast of the second half of 2027. More than 7 million developers build on its developer platform.
Cloudflare launched Turnstile Spin, an agent-mediated tool that installs, repairs, or migrates Turnstile CAPTCHA-free bot protection on a website's frontend and backend. Since its July release, the dashboard has recorded more than 65,000 successful Spin widget creations.