# Cloudflare — Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway

- Company: Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-02T13:28:10+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-web-search-api/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17792-introducing-web-search-api-via-ai-gateway
- Subject: Cloudflare AI

Cloudflare announced a Web Search API integrated into its AI Gateway, partnering with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup. The API provides grounded, live search results for AI agents, with features like Bring-Your-Own-Key, Zero Data Retention options, and compliance with Cloudflare's bot crawling standards. It is available via AI Gateway, a direct REST API, and Workers bindings.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-web-search-api/:

> Today, we’re announcing Cloudflare’s partnership with web search providers to bring you grounded intelligence via AI Gateway. We’re kicking off this launch with our partners from Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup.

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