Cloudflare Web Search API Launches for Agents

Cloudflare is productizing the plumbing around agentic search, not inventing a better search engine—and that may be enough. The operational convenience is compelling, but developers still own provider selection, search quality, and grounding logic.

• –A common API makes switching among Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup a configuration change instead of a rewrite.
• –Pricing varies dramatically: $0.25, $5, and $7 per 1,000 requests respectively, so teams should benchmark quality before standardizing. [Provider pricing](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/providers/)
• –AI Gateway adds observability, access controls, unified billing, and BYOK around search calls.
• –Verified crawling requirements and source links improve traceability for agent answers.
• –Native server tools are still forthcoming, meaning developers currently need to orchestrate the model-to-search loop themselves. [Launch announcement](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-web-search-api/)