GoKawiilCloudflare launches Web Search API in beta via AI Gateway
Cloudflare has released a beta Web Search API that lets AI agents and applications query the live internet rather than relying on a model's training data or guessed URLs. Developers can choose from three launch partners—Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup—all of which support Zero Data Retention and Cloudflare's verified bot crawling standards. The API runs through AI Gateway, logging requests and billing them at each provider's list price with no markup, and can be called via REST API or a Worker AI binding.
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By routing search through AI Gateway, Cloudflare positions itself as infrastructure for the growing class of AI agents that need real-time web grounding, potentially simplifying how developers integrate multiple search providers without separate billing relationships. The Zero Data Retention and verified-bot commitments suggest Cloudflare is trying to address privacy and content-access concerns that have surrounded AI web scraping.
- Cloudflare's Web Search API beta lets AI agents search the live web instead of relying on static training data.
- Three providers—Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup—are available at launch, each supporting Zero Data Retention.
- Requests run through AI Gateway, billed at provider list price with no added markup, accessible via REST API or Worker binding.
Source: developers.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-05
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