Block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click
- Prevent artificial intelligence (AI) bots from scraping your website content and training large language models (LLM) to recreate it without your permission.
- When you enable this feature, Cloudflare deploys a custom rule to detect and block AI bots from your website.
In Q1 2024, Cloudflare blocked an average of 209 billion cyber threats each day
Cloudflare powers millions of Internet properties
How does Cloudflare block AI bots?
Threat intelligence
Cloudflare’s global network sits between websites or applications and Internet traffic enabling us to stop bad actors while simultaneously improving performance. Cloudflare proxies approximately 20% of the web, and blocks an average of 209 billion threats per day. All the traffic that goes through Cloudflare strengthens the machine learning that we apply to detect and block threats, including AI bots.
Bot management
Leveraging insights from our network, Cloudflare constantly scores and fingerprints AI crawlers and scrapers that widely scrape the web for model training. Protection against these AI bots can then be deployed with a single click across your site's defenses, actively identifying and blocking AI-driven attempts to extract and potentially misuse your valuable content without authorization.
Bot analytics
Cloudflare’s bot analytics and security analytics allows you to easily gain insight into bot traffic including AI-driven crawlers. Segment traffic by type, view traffic being mitigated by Cloudflare, and filter by request attributes to understand and optimize your bot protection.
- Available on the Business plan
Unsanctioned use of your content by AI is an emerging risk
Protect your data and content from unauthorized use by AI applications, including those that may ignore robots.txt.
30% of traffic Cloudflare sees on the Internet is bot-related.
In February 2023, Cloudflare detected and mitigated the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record, a 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack.
There are billions of stolen credentials on the dark web to fuel credential stuffing that leads to account takeover.
The Cloudflare difference
Global security for peace of mind
Cloudflare's global network has a capacity of over %{NetworkCapacityV2} and spans more than 335 cities in 125+ countries. Our network stops attacks at the source where they are launched.
Precise, data-driven security
The Cloudflare network reach provides unmatched visibility into threats, informing our machine learning models to provide the most up to date protection with low false positives.
Easy deployment
Cloudflare builds products that are simple to configure and deploy. Reduce overhead to manage your site's security and hit the ground running.
Looking for more advanced bot and cyber attack protection? Consider Cloudflare Pro or Business
Web Application Firewall
Protect your website against security threats, such as zero-day vulnerabilities, OWASP top-10 attack techniques, and use of compromised or stolen credentials with Cloudflare's Managed Rulesets.
Security Center
Cloudflare Security Center offers attack surface management (ASM) that inventories IT assets, enumerates potential security issues, controls phishing and spoofing risks, and enables security teams to investigate and mitigate threats in a few clicks.
Page Shield
Cloudflare Page Shield protects your visitors from Magecart-style supply chain attacks that steal credit card information and sensitive data through malicious third-party dependencies.
Unmetered DDoS Protection
Cloudflare's unmetered mitigation of DDoS protects Internet applications and APIs from volumetric attack, ensuring fast performance and high availability.
Bot Management
Protect against bot attacks with Super Bot Fight Mode. Block or challenge automated traffic and access real-time analytics to better understand bot activity.
Rate Limiting
Guards against denial-of-service attacks, brute-force password attempts, and other types of abusive behavior targeting the application layer.
Plans and pricing
Free
$0 / month
Add-ons billed monthly
For personal or hobby projects that aren’t business-critical.
Pro
$20 / month
When billed annually or $25 / mo billed monthly
For professional websites that aren't business-critical.
Business
$200 / month
When billed annually or $250 / mo billed monthly
For small businesses operating online.
Free
Pro
Business
Free
Pro
Business
Performance
Security
Support
Touch of modern
"Cloudflare helps keep us online, provides a faster site experience to our end users, and protects our customers' sensitive information."
- Steven Ou
CTO
