AI Change Record
Cloudflare AI Search GA
Cloudflare moved AI Search to general availability and expanded retrieval with multimodal image support, OCR for scanned PDFs and larger files. This is a GA transition and capability update to an existing service. Access: Generally available account-based service; multimodal retrieval and OCR; usage billing with limited monthly free allotments.
At a glance
Change Snapshot
- Company
- Cloudflare
- Effective date
- October 1, 2026
- Launch type
- Major Update
- Category
- AI Search Tools
- Audience
- AI Agent Developers, Developers
- Pricing
- Billing covers content ingestion, index storage and queries, with image processing as an add-on where used. Monthly free allotments are limited; the announcement specifies 1,000 semantic and 1,000 full-text queries rather than one shared 2,000-query pool.
- Free plan
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Open weights/source
- No
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Verification & Sources
- Evidence state
- Source-verified
- Source links
- 1
- Freshness
- Checked October 2, 2026
- Last verified
- October 2, 2026
- Last updated
- October 2, 2026
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- Kingy editorial reviewer
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Kingy AI Take
AI Search gives teams a managed path for retrieval across text, images and scanned PDFs. Test ingestion and retrieval quality on your own documents and estimate costs across ingestion, storage and queries before scaling.
Who it is for
Existing users and administrators evaluating Cloudflare AI Search GA.
What feels promising
Cloudflare moved AI Search to general availability and expanded retrieval with multimodal image support, OCR for scanned PDFs and larger files. This is a GA transition and capability update to an existing service.
What feels unproven
Generally available account-based service; multimodal retrieval and OCR; usage billing with limited monthly free allotments. Source review completed October 2, 2026. No new hands-on test, paid API request, independent benchmark or account-specific access check was performed. Vendor results remain attributed. Existing dated tests and disclosures were not edited. Commercial disclosure: On October 2, 2026, Curtis confirmed that Kingy had no client or sponsorship relationship, affiliate compensation or supplied access from Cloudflare.
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