Cloudflare Bot Management
Product · SaaS / cloud software · Finance & accounting by Cloudflare
Stop bad bots, not your customers, with global-scale machine learning.
Cloudflare Bot Management uses global network intelligence and machine learning to stop malicious bots while ensuring a frictionless experience for humans. It is the ideal choice for enterprises needing granular control over automated traffic to prevent credential stuffing and scraping.
- Price
- From 0 USD
Category: Application Security
- Deployment
- Cloud-based global network across 335+ cities
- Integrations
- Cloudflare WAF, API Shield, Turnstile, and Workers
- APIs and SDKs
- Cloudflare API for managing bot scores and custom rules
- Network Reach
- 335+ cities worldwide
- Bot Score Range
- 1 to 99
- Detection Methods
- Machine Learning, Behavioral Analysis, Fingerprinting
- ML models trained on ~20% of global Internet traffic
- Near-instantaneous mitigation at the network edge
- Granular per-request bot scoring from 1 to 99
- Frictionless verification with Cloudflare Turnstile
Overview
Cloudflare Bot Management is a cloud-based security solution designed for enterprises to identify and mitigate automated traffic across their digital properties. It uses machine learning models trained on approximately 20% of the world's Internet traffic to detect novel attacks and stop malicious bots before they reach applications. The product operates at the network edge in over 335 cities, ensuring that mitigation happens near-instantaneously without adding latency for legitimate human users. It provides granular per-request scoring from 1 to 99, allowing security teams to write custom rules for specific endpoints such as login pages or APIs. By replacing traditional CAPTCHAs with Cloudflare Turnstile, it maintains a frictionless user experience while defending against credential stuffing, scraping, and inventory hoarding.
Detection and Intelligence
- Advanced ML Detection: Machine learning models trained on traffic from approximately 20% of the Internet detect novel attacks and deploy protection instantly.
- Behavioral analysis identifies automated traffic patterns across the global network to stop malicious bots before they reach applications.
- Granular Bot Scoring: A per-request bot score from 1 to 99 indicates the likelihood that a request came from a bot, with lower scores being more likely automated.
- JA3/JA4 Fingerprinting: Fingerprinting techniques like JA3 and JA4 help identify specific bot clients even when they attempt to rotate IP addresses.
Security and Use Cases
- Credential Stuffing Protection: Protect login endpoints from credential stuffing attacks by identifying and blocking automated attempts to use stolen credentials.
- API Defense: Secure APIs from automated scraping, resource abuse, and unauthorized probing by identifying bot-driven API requests.
- E-commerce Bot Defense_2: Defend e-commerce sites from inventory hoarding bots that prevent real customers from completing purchases.
- Personal Agent Management: Identify and manage personal AI agents acting on behalf of users with granular access policies.
Performance and Control
- Edge-Based Mitigation: Mitigation happens at the network edge near-instantaneously to ensure bots are stopped without adding latency for human users.
- Bot Analytics_2: Examine bot traffic dynamically with detailed analytics to understand paths, status codes, and network sources.
- Custom Rule Integration: Access bot-specific variables within the WAF custom rule builder to create granular, per-endpoint handling policies.
Use cases
- Retailers block inventory hoarding bots to ensure products remain available for real human customers.
- Financial institutions protect login endpoints from automated credential stuffing attacks using per-request bot scores.
- Content publishers use Turnstile to verify visitors without the friction of traditional CAPTCHA challenges.
- Security teams use Bot Analytics to investigate unexplained automated traffic and fine-tune WAF custom rules.
Specifications
- Deployment
- Cloud-based global network across 335+ cities
- Integrations
- Cloudflare WAF, API Shield, Turnstile, and Workers
- APIs and SDKs
- Cloudflare API for managing bot scores and custom rules
- Limits
- Enterprise non-contract preview is free of metered usage fees and certain restrictions
- Editions
- Bot Fight Mode, Super Bot Fight Mode, and Bot Management for Enterprise
- Network Reach
- 335+ cities worldwide
- Bot Score Range
- 1 to 99
- Detection Methods
- Machine Learning, Behavioral Analysis, Fingerprinting
- Mitigation Latency
- Sub-50ms reach to 95% of users
- Supported Protocols
- HTTP/3, QUIC, TCP, UDP
- Analytics Retention
- Varies by plan tier
How it works
- Enable Protection: Enable bot protection through the Cloudflare dashboard or API to start analyzing incoming traffic.
- Analyze Traffic: Cloudflare's global network uses machine learning and behavioral analysis to assign a bot score to every request.
- Configure Actions: Create custom WAF rules or use default settings to block, challenge, or allow traffic based on the assigned bot score.
- Monitor and Optimize: Monitor bot activity and fine-tune rules using Bot Analytics to see which agents are visiting and what they are doing.
Plans
- Free: 0 month or Free to join
- Simple Toggle Protection: A single toggle to challenge detected bot traffic across the entire domain.
- Bot Fight Mode Access: Basic mitigation for common automated threats on personal or hobby projects.
- Pro/Business: 20 mo billed annually
- Configurable Bot Actions: Identify traffic matching patterns of known bots and choose to challenge or block them.
- Static Resource Protection: Protect static resources from automated scraping and abuse.
- Bot Analytics Access: View basic analytics to understand the volume and nature of bot traffic.
- Enterprise
- Per-Request Bot Scoring: Access granular per-request bot scores from 1 to 99 for precise policy enforcement.
- Custom Rule Builder: Write custom WAF rules based on bot scores to target specific endpoints or behaviors.
- Credential & API Protection_2: Protect login endpoints from automated credential stuffing and account takeover attempts.
- AI Agent Access Policies: Identify and manage personal AI agents with zone-level policies and granular controls.
Pricing
- Bot Fight Mode (Free Plan)
- Included in Free plan
- Super Bot Fight Mode (Pro Plan)
- Included in $20/mo plan
- Super Bot Fight Mode (Business Plan)
- Included in $200/mo plan
FAQ
Which bot solution is best for ecommerce?
Bot Management for Enterprise is recommended for ecommerce, banking, and security use cases that require granular per-request scoring and custom rules.
Can I try Bot Management before signing a contract?
Yes, Enterprise customers can preview Bot Management as a non-contract service with full access and no metered usage fees.
How does Bot Management improve developer productivity?
Bot Management identifies and blocks automated abuse like credential stuffing and scraping, which helps reduce server costs and protects user accounts.
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