Cloudflare Bot and Agent Management
Take back control over agentic and user behavior on your apps without CAPTCHAs
Secure your applications from malicious automation while enabling the AI economy. With visibility into more than 20% of the Internet, nobody sees more AI crawlers and agents than Cloudflare. Verify identity and trust with every request without frustrating CAPTCHAs or additional integrations.
Benefits of Cloudflare Bot & Agent Management
Protect your digital revenue and brand integrity
Stop residential proxy botnets, account abuse, credential and card stuffing, content scraping, and inventory hoarding.
Consolidate your application security program
Control unwanted automated traffic in real-time natively within Cloudflare Application Security without complexity of integrating more tools.
Deliver better agent and user experiences
No more frustrating and insecure CAPTCHAs with a simple snippet of privacy-preserving Turnstile.
Take back control over content and unwanted AI
Gain visibility into agentic traffic behavior, block unwanted AI crawlers, serve content to trusted users and agents.
HOW IT WORKS
Verify visitor identity and trust at the edge without interrupting legitimate users
Every request is scored in microseconds by multiple detection engines running on Cloudflare’s global network — including global and app-specific machine learning, client-side JavaScript signals, deterministic mobile device validation, and user account analytics.
The multi-layered detection produces a Bot Score, enabling automated enforcement through standard actions—Allow, Block, Challenge with noCAPTCHA Turnstile, or Rate Limit—or custom responses such as AI Labyrinth and redirection logic using Cloudflare Workers
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Learn how we verify and control automated traffic within Cloudflare application security
ANALYST RECOGNITION
What top analysts say
Cloudflare named a Leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewall Solutions, Q1 2025” report
Cloudflare a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management, Q3 2024
What our customers are saying
“While bots, data scraping, credential harvesting, and DDoS attacks continue to evolve, Cloudflare allows us to mitigate incoming threats, protecting millions of storefronts, and ensuring customers can complete their transactions without interruption.”
Duncan Davidson
VP Developer Productivity, Shopify
Top Bot & Agent Management use cases
AI agent visibility
Track and control how AI crawlers interact with your content (including robots.txt compliance) to ensure fair value exchange.
Page and content scraping
Identify common scraper bots and mitigate malicious low-and-slow scraping attacks that evade traditional IP-based defenses.
Account takeover & abuse
Protect your most sensitive user journeys by detecting and stopping bulk account creation and credential stuffing attempts.
Mobile app abuse
Detect impersonation of genuine mobile devices with mobile SDKs that do not rely on biometrics based guessing.
Commerce flows
Save products for your real customers and lower your payment fees by identifying and blocking inventory hoarding and card testing bots.
Frictionless trusted user experience
Replace frustrating CAPTCHAs with Web Bot Auth, Turnstile and Private Access Tokens. Verify visitor trust in the background using cryptographically strong signals.
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