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Powerful primitives, seamlessly integrated

Select your preferred CLI

Deploy with one command

Build and deploy serverless functions and full-stack apps on Cloudflare's global network. No servers to manage. No cold starts or region complexity.

npm create cloudflare@latest my-app

Create your first Worker

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The AI inference platform

Run AI inference globally with one API call, build agents, and search across your data — no GPUs to manage, no capacity planning.

npx wrangler ai models

cf ai run @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct --help

Browse available models

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Make your database feel instant, everywhere

Serverless SQL, globally distributed key-value, and global database acceleration — query directly from Workers with no connection management.

npx wrangler d1 create my-database

cf d1 --help

Get started with D1

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Build media pipelines without infrastructure headaches

Cloudflare Images helps teams build scalable, reliable media pipelines to store, optimize, and deliver images.

curl --request POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/images/v1

Get started with Images

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Build with your favorite AI agent

Paste into any AI coding agent to install Cloudflare agent tooling:

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What's new

The latest features and improvements shipping across Cloudflare.

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Oct 20, 2026

Cloudflare One Client

Cloudflare API MCP server now supports step-up authorization

Grant only the required scopes when you connect, and authorize more on demand as your agent performs a task.

Oct 19Bots

Precursor adds Monitor mode

Monitor mode lets you test Precursor without applying its signals to bot score or Challenge clearance.

Oct 19Cloud Workload Security

Cloud Workload Security is now available in Beta

Cloud Workload Security applies policy controls to cloud API requests before they reach your cloud provider.

Oct 19Workers AI

Introducing Clairic: an extraction model for typed values, now on Workers AI

Clairic is a preview of a new class of System One models, extraction models. It extracts, computes, estimates, and forecasts values from your input, and returns typed answers with confidence scores in a single pass.

Oct 19Workers AI

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 now available on Workers AI

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is now available on Workers AI, a multimodal MoE model with vision, reasoning, function calling, and a one million token context window.

Security that scales

Everything you need to secure applications, APIs, and infrastructure.

Public websites & apps

WAF

Protect your applications without sacrificing performance

Identify and block malicious payloads before they can compromise your application.

Harden your app with WAF

SSL/TLS

Encrypt your site in minutes

Streamline TLS Certificate Management.

Set up SSL/TLS

Turnstile

Verify visitors without CAPTCHA

Confirm web visitors are real and block unwanted bots without slowing down web experiences for real users.

Add Turnstile protection

Corporate and home networks

Tunnel

Securely connect origins with post-quantum encrypted tunnels

Outbound-only encrypted tunnels, no open ports.

Create a secure Tunnel

Access

Secure internal applications with Cloudflare Access

Identity-first, quantum-safe access to private applications and infrastructure.

Set up Cloudflare Access

Gateway

Secure Internet browsing without disruptions

Cloud-native Secure Web Gateway (SWG) that inspects browser traffic without disruption.

Create Gateway policies

Faster web performance

Accelerate websites and applications with Cloudflare CDN caching, image optimization, smart routing, load balancing, and web analytics.

Explore Directory

DNS

Fast, reliable and resilient DNS queries

World's fastest authoritative DNS, consistently ranked #1 by DNSPerf; free, fully API-managed, DNSSEC supported.

Set up Authoritative DNS

Smart Shield

Minimize origin load and accelerate dynamic content

Intelligently manage traffic, optimize content delivery, and safeguard origin infrastructure.

Enable Smart Shield

CDN

Default caching for static assets, with cache rules for full control

Caches content in 330+ cities worldwide, with instant purging and granular Cache Rules.

Set up Cache Rules

Speed

Assess your site speed and apply recommended optimizations

Application delivery optimizations including minification, Brotli compression, Early Hints, and HTTP/3.

Improve your site speed

Images

Transform, optimize, and deliver images worldwide

Cloudflare Images handles format conversion, responsive sizing, and intelligent caching.

Optimize image delivery

Web Analytics

Understand the performance of your web pages

Cloudflare Web Analytics collects Core Web Vitals and performance data from 100% of page views without cookies or sampling.

Track real user metrics

Connect with Cloudflare

Find community, read the blog, and explore open source projects.

Community

Join the conversation

Share ideas, answers, and code with the Cloudflare community.

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Open Source

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Cloudflare contributes to the open-source ecosystem in a variety of ways, including:

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Blog

Read the latest

Get the latest news on Cloudflare products, technologies, and culture.

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