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Dashboard

This guide walks you through creating an AI Search instance using the Cloudflare dashboard.

Create an AI Search instance

Go to AI Search in the Cloudflare dashboard.
Go to AI Search
Select Create Instance.
Name your AI Search instance.
Optionally connect a data source such as a website you own or an R2 bucket.
Review your configurations.
Select Create.

Upload content

Once an instance has been created, you can upload files directly from the dashboard.

Go to AI Search in the Cloudflare dashboard.
Go to AI Search
Select your instance.
Select the Items tab.
Upload your files. AI Search indexes them automatically.

Try it out

Once your content is indexed, you can run your first query.

Go to your AI Search instance.
Select the Playground tab.
Select Chat or Search.
Enter a query to test the response.

Add to your application

There are multiple ways you can connect AI Search to your application:

Workers Binding Query AI Search directly from your Workers code.

REST API Query AI Search using HTTP requests.