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title: "Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway"
description: "Cloudflare launched a Web Search API via AI Gateway, partnering with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup, to provide grounded intelligence by letting AI agents search the web instead of guessing URLs that return 404 errors. The API injects live, structured snippets into inference pipelines, giving models access to information beyond their training cutoff, such as new Birthday Week releases, and grounding agent responses with real-time data. Developers can integrate via AI Gateway credits, a direct REST endpoint with curl, or Workers bindings with one line of code. Partners commit to Cloudflare’s verified bot standards, including identifying crawlers, respecting robots.txt, and providing source links for transparency. Web search calls are logged in AI Gateway observability, billed at list pricing without markup, support Bring-Your-Own-Key and Zero Data Retention, with native server tools coming soon."
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# Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway

[Cloudflare](https://yomu.fyi/company/cloudflare) · Gabriel Massadas · Oct 2, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Cloudflare launched a Web Search API via AI Gateway, partnering with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup, to provide grounded intelligence by letting AI agents search the web instead of guessing URLs that return 404 errors. The API injects live, structured snippets into inference pipelines, giving models access to information beyond their training cutoff, such as new Birthday Week releases, and grounding agent responses with real-time data. Developers can integrate via AI Gateway credits, a direct REST endpoint with curl, or Workers bindings with one line of code. Partners commit to Cloudflare’s verified bot standards, including identifying crawlers, respecting robots.txt, and providing source links for transparency. Web search calls are logged in AI Gateway observability, billed at list pricing without markup, support Bring-Your-Own-Key and Zero Data Retention, with native server tools coming soon.

## Context

Cloudflare AI Gateway now includes a Web Search API that lets AI agents search the web for live information instead of guessing URLs. The API is launched in partnership with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup, who commit to Cloudflare’s verified bot standards. Developers can use the API via AI Gateway credits, a REST endpoint, or Workers bindings.

## Approach / What changed

Cloudflare integrated a Web Search API into AI Gateway, allowing developers to query web search through AI Gateway credits, a direct REST endpoint, or Workers bindings. The API returns structured snippets from the web, and partners must comply with Cloudflare’s verified bot standards including identifying crawlers, respecting robots.txt, and providing source links.

## Takeaways

- The Web Search API grounds AI agent responses with live web data instead of relying on guessed URLs that often return 404 errors.
- Developers can integrate web search via AI Gateway credits, a direct REST endpoint with curl, or Workers bindings with a single line of code.
- Partners Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup commit to Cloudflare’s verified bot standards, including identifying crawlers, respecting robots.txt, and providing source links for transparency.

## FAQ

### How does the Web Search API differ from agents guessing URLs?

Instead of an agent guessing a URL and making a tool call to curl it, which often returns 404 errors, the Web Search API lets agents search the web like a human would with a search engine, returning relevant live results.

### What integration methods are available?

Developers can use the API via AI Gateway with credits, a direct REST endpoint with a curl command, or Workers bindings with a single line of code. Native server tools are coming soon.

### What standards do the web search partners follow?

Partners Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup commit to Cloudflare's verified bot standards, including identifying their crawlers, respecting robots.txt, and providing source links for crawled content.

**Tags:** [AI](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai), [AI Agents](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-agents), [AI Gateway](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-gateway), [Cloudflare](https://yomu.fyi/topic/cloudflare), [Web Search](https://yomu.fyi/topic/web-search)

- Source: [Cloudflare](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-web-search-api)
- Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-web-search-api
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-10-02T15:00:17.508Z

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