What is Cloudflare-AI-Search?
Cloudflare-AI-Search is Cloudflare's web crawler that retrieves and indexes website content for AI Search, its managed search and retrieval service. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Cloudflare-AI-Search visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Cloudflare |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | October 22, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Cloudflare-AI-Search revisits your site on a flexible schedule, often requesting several pages in a burst. Activity usually increases when your content changes or its index refreshes, with quiet intervals between crawl passes.
Cloudflare-AI-Search's User Agent
| User Agent | Cloudflare-AutoRAG |
How To Block Cloudflare-AI-Search With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Cloudflare-AI-Search from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI search crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Cloudflare-AI-Search # https://knownagents.com/agents/cloudflare-ai-search
Disallow: /Insights for Cloudflare-AI-Search
As of October 22, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Cloudflare-AI-Search?
Usually not. Blocking Cloudflare-AI-Search keeps your pages out of its AI search results and can eliminate referral traffic from that channel. It does not improve traditional search rankings. For context, 8% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Cloudflare-AI-Search.
Does Cloudflare-AI-Search Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. Cloudflare-AI-Search is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Cloudflare-AI-Search respects it.
Does Cloudflare-AI-Search Access Private Content?
No special access. Cloudflare-AI-Search can reach only content available to anonymous visitors. Make sure staging sites and other sensitive areas require authentication.
How Can I Tell if Cloudflare-AI-Search Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks visits from Cloudflare-AI-Search and every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper, then authenticates each visit using Cloudflare-AI-Search's published verification method. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Cloudflare-AI-Search". Look for bursts that follow links across several pages and recur over time. A matching log entry alone is not proof because any bot can claim to be Cloudflare-AI-Search.
Why Is Cloudflare-AI-Search Visiting My Website?
Cloudflare-AI-Search is updating an AI search index so your pages can appear in its results. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or mentions of your domain.