Cloudflare AI Search starts billing November 1 at $0.75 per million tokens
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Cloudflare declared AI Search generally available on October 1, 2026, and set November 1, 2026 as the date on which charges begin for the managed retrieval service. The release adds native image embeddings and raises the file size cap, according to a post on the company's blog by Gabriel Massadas, Nelson Duarte and Ashish Vinodkumar. Cloudflare has finished testing a tool that lets websites and apps search their own documents and images, and it will start charging for it on November 1, 2026. The change affects developers and companies that run site search or internal knowledge search on Cloudflare, because the price depends on how much content is loaded, how much is stored and how many searches are run. Small projects stay free under monthly limits, while heavier use is metered, and scanned PDFs and pictures can now be searched as well. Cloudflare describes AI Search as a product that "combines Workers AI, Vectorize, R2, and Browser Run into a fully managed index and retrieval pipeline". According to Cloudflare, the service launched more than a year ago, and developers have used it for everything from searching internal documentation to powering search on public websites. The company also runs its own blog and developer docs search on it. The product has carried another name. Cloudflare introduced AutoRAG in open beta in April 2025 as a fully managed retrieval-augmented...
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