Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told Reuters that a wave of AI-driven vulnerability discovery is underway, with many additional severe flaws in critical software being patched, and predicted years of sustained turmoil and frequent cybersecurity incidents.
At Cloudflare Connect 2026, Peter Steinberger told Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht that his AI work consumed $10 million in tokens in September, paid by investors. They discussed AI agent infrastructure, cloud migration costs, the impact of AI-generated code on open source, future adoption of AI agents, and trust and permission management.
Cloudflare has launched a new model called Clairic, a System One-class extraction model capable of extracting, computing, estimating, and forecasting data from unstructured inputs.
Cloudflare lowered the per-million input token price for Clef-flash from $0.09 to $0.038, a decrease of about 58%, with an output price of $0.12 per million tokens; the managed context window was reduced from 64k to 24k.
Cloudflare announced that its AI Gateway now supports native web search API integration, in partnership with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup. Developers can inject real-time web context into model inference calls via AI Gateway, REST APIs, or Workers bindings.
Cloudflare launched open-source decision models Clef and Clef-flash on Workers AI, targeting high-speed classification and agentic workflows, along with a new reinforcement learning platform that lets developers fine-tune decision models with their own data.
Cloudflare announced a rebuilt Cloudflare Containers service with 6x faster startup, runtime selection of sandbox image and instance type for agents, and public beta support for filesystem snapshots, all controlled via Durable Object.
Cloudflare announced the beta of Monetization Gateway, which supports charging AI agents for token, API, and MCP tool usage via HTTP 402. Cloudflare AI Gateway, Ceramic.ai, Stocktwits and others are already using the service, and U.S.-based sellers can now apply for the closed beta.
Cloudflare announced it is opening Cloudforce One's Threat Events Platform to all Cloudflare accounts and introducing Threat Signals, which automatically parses open-source threat intelligence reports, extracts structured indicators, and connects threat context to users' WAF rules.
Cloudflare announced the general availability of Python Workers, allowing developers to run Python web frameworks and AI orchestration libraries natively in the Workers runtime, with direct integration to D1, R2, and Workers AI, without writing JavaScript glue code.