Why Cloudflare matters
Cloudflare sits in front of a large share of the web, so its rules on AI crawlers shape how models get content. On July 1, 2026 it moved its Pay Per Crawl experiment toward a Pay Per Use marketplace that pays publishers when their content appears in AI answers. Second quarter 2026 revenue, reported August 6, 2026, rose 36% to $696.1 million.
The numberQ2 2026 revenue of $696.1M, up 36% year over year, reported August 6, 2026
On The All Things AI 100
Listed under Data and infrastructure. Databases, data pipelines, and the plumbing under AI applications.
Quick answers
- What does Cloudflare do?
- Global network and developer platform offering serverless inference, an agents SDK and AI crawler controls. Cloudflare sits in front of a large share of the web, so its rules on AI crawlers shape how models get content.
- What AI capabilities does Cloudflare offer?
- Cloudflare offers Workers AI so developers can run model inference on its network without managing servers, Vectorize to store and search embeddings, and AI Gateway to route, cache, and log requests to model providers. Its Agents SDK supports building stateful agents on Workers. Site owners can also use controls that allow or block AI crawlers requesting their content.
- Why is Cloudflare on The All Things AI 100?
- Cloudflare is listed under Data and infrastructure. Databases, data pipelines, and the plumbing under AI applications. Q2 2026 revenue of $696.1M, up 36% year over year, reported August 6, 2026.
- Where is Cloudflare based, and who owns it?
- Cloudflare is based in San Francisco, CA, was founded in 2009 and is public (NYSE: NET).