Bot Management

Stop bad bots, not your customers

Cloudflare Bot Management uses machine learning and behavioral analysis across our global network to automatically detect and stop malicious bot traffic before it hits your application.
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Smarter Detection through Network Scale

Our ML models are trained on the traffic of a huge portion of the Internet. We see novel attacks first and deploy protection for everyone instantly, a data advantage no competitor can match.

Frictionless User Experience

We offer Cloudflare Turnstile, a free, privacy-preserving, and user-friendly alternative to CAPTCHA that developers and users actually prefer.

Integrated Performance

Built into the Cloudflare stack, not a separate product. Mitigation happens at the edge near-instantaneously, ensuring we stop bots without adding latency for humans.

Background Pattern

You can use Bot Management to:

Bot Management stops automated abuse that wastes application resources, skews analytics, compromises user accounts, and forces developers to build and maintain brittle, custom security logic instead of shipping features. It frees developers from the constant cat-and-mouse game of fighting bots, allowing them to trust their traffic, protect their services, and focus on building great products for real users.

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Credential & API Protection

Protecting login endpoints from credential stuffing attacks and securing APIs from scraping, resource abuse, and automated probing.

E-commerce Bot Defense

Protecting e-commerce sites from inventory hoarding bots.

Real-Time UX & Spend Optimization

Turning bot detection into a real-time UX and marketing-spend optimizer.

Advanced ML Detection

Leverage machine learning models trained on massive amounts of Internet traffic to detect novel attacks and deploy protection instantly.
Carrefour

Retail giant Carrefour replaced five separate security tools, put 400 e-commerce sites behind Cloudflare, and cut incident-resolution time by 75% after deploying the WAF (plus Bot Management).

Compute

Workers

Global serverless functions

Containers

Any language, anywhere

Sandboxes

Secure code execution

Durable Objects

Stateful compute

Browser Rendering

Automated browsers

Workflows

Process orchestration

Storage

R2

Egress-free storage

Data Platform

Ingest, Catalog & Query

Hyperdrive

Global databases

D1

Serverless SQL

KV

Key-value speed

Queues

Message processing

Artifacts

Git-native versioned storage

AI

Workers AI

Edge AI models

Agents

Build stateful AI agents

AI Gateway

AI observability

Vectorize

Vector database

AI Search

Instant retrieval

Media

Images

Image optimization

Stream

Video streaming

RealtimeKit

Live comms

TURN / SFU

Real-time infra

Network

DNS

Fast DNS

CDN

Faster delivery

WAF

App protection

Load Balancing

Zero downtime

Rate Limiting

Abuse prevention

Bot Mitigation

Block bots

Turnstile

Privacy-first bot checks

DDoS Protection

DDoS mitigation

SASE / Zero Trust

SASE

Unified zero trust platform

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