- Author
- Cloudflare (changelog post, no individual named)
- Published
- 2 October 2026
- Kind
- Vendor changelog announcement
- Original
- developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
- Subject
- Harnesses and agent loops
What it is
Cloudflare posted the entry in its developer changelog. It announces that agents and applications can search the web through AI Gateway. It points readers to a how-to guide.
What it says
- Web Search API is in beta and lets agents search the web for live information.
- At launch there are three providers: Ceramic.ai, Exa and Linkup.
- Requests go through AI Gateway and are billed at provider list price, with no markup.
What evidence it gives
The entry offers a curl example and a Worker example. It includes claims about zero data retention and bot crawling standards. It gives no benchmarks.
Interests and limits
This is a vendor announcement for its own product, and the page is short. The data retention claims come from Cloudflare and were not checked. The how-to guide it links to was not read. Neither code example was run.