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Cloudflare Launches Web Search API for AI Agents in Beta

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What happened

Cloudflare released a beta version of its Web Search API through AI Gateway to allow AI agents to retrieve live web results.

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Cloudflare's new Web Search API lets AI agents retrieve live web results through a unified interface that handles logging, access controls, and billing across multiple search providers including Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup. Cloudflare has released a beta Web Search API through its AI Gateway, giving AI agents a unified way to fetch live web content without guessing URLs. The service integrates with REST APIs and Cloudflare Workers, combining search logging, access controls, and billing alongside model inference logs. The API connects to three initial search providers: Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup. Developers can bring their own provider keys, and Cloudflare passes through provider list prices without markup. The company says it will flag providers that support Zero Data Retention policies. "When you use an agent and it needs to fetch a live web page, the agent usually just guesses the URL of the page and then makes a tool call to curl it," said Michelle Chen, group product manager at Cloudflare, along with senior director Sam Else and senior systems engineer Gabriel Massadas. "This is why you'll sometimes see web fetches come back with a 404 Not Found. It's not super efficient to randomly guess URLs all the time." The search endpoint requires an AI Gateway authentication token and a provider specification in the request payload. Providers must comply with Cloudflare's...

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Launch

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Product
Web Search API

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Release type
Feature

Topics and mentions

Product tags

  • online technology
  • general technology
  • future tech
  • data

Extraction

Confidence
95%
Detected
Oct 29, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
launches

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