# Cloudflare — AI Search is now generally available

- Company: Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-01T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-ga/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17797-ai-search-is-now-generally-available
- Subject: Cloudflare AI
- Models affected: Qwen3-VL-Embedding
- Pricing: Base Ingestion $0.75 / 1M tokens; Image processing (add-on) +$0.50 / ; Free monthly allotment (all Workers plans) includes 5M tokens †, 1,000 semantic queries and 1,000 full-text queries

Cloudflare announced general availability of AI Search, adding native image embeddings, OCR for PDFs, and support for files up to 10 MiB. The service uses the Qwen3-VL-Embedding model for multimodal retrieval. Billing begins November 1, 2026, with a free tier included in all Workers plans.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-ga/:

> Starting today, AI Search is generally available. And as part of it, we've expanded and improved our support for multimodal formats beyond text, adding native image embeddings, optical character recognition (OCR) for PDFs, and support for larger files.

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