Cloudflare Bot Management

Machine learning-based detection and blocking of automated malicious traffic while preserving legitimate user access

Also known as
cloudflare-bot-management

Available worldwide

What is Cloudflare Bot Management?

A network-integrated security service that uses machine learning and behavioral analysis to identify and block bot attacks at the network edge before they reach applications, eliminating the need for custom bot-fighting logic.

Independently observed

Cloudflare Bot Management pricing

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from $20/moSubscriptionFree tier

From free tier to $250/mo. Bot Management and Turnstile included across tiers.

Free

Free
Free

For personal or hobby projects that aren't business-critical

  • Unmetered DDoS Protection
  • CDN
  • Universal SSL Certificate
  • Free Managed Ruleset

Pro

$20/mo billed annually, or $25/mo billed monthly
annual

For professional websites that aren't business-critical

  • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Lossless Image Optimization
  • 10x Uptime Service Credits

Business

$200/mo billed annually, or $250/mo billed monthly
annual

For small businesses operating online

  • PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance
  • 25x Uptime Service Credits
  • Up to 6 months log retention with Logpush

Contract

Contact sales
Contact sales
annual

For mission-critical applications that are core to your business

  • Custom SLA terms
  • Professional services available

Add-ons

  • Advanced Certificate Manager$10/mo
  • Smart Routing & Tiered Caching$5/mo
  • Video
  • Automatic Platform Optimization (APO)$5/mo + $1 per GB ingested
  • Client-Side Security$0.10 per 1000 requests
  • Cloudflare Registrar$7.85/yr

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Cloudflare Bot Management, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 70 / 100
low · 34%updating
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Pricing transparency1000.088.4
Reliability500.073.7
Price level500.052.6
Capabilities00.050.0-
Integrations00.040.0-
Security posture50.070.0-

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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityPrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …highsource · 2026-08-18 · 75%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60%
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60%
Price levelmidmediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60%
Starting priceAmount: 20 · Currency: USDmediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Sla pct100mediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-08-18 · 75%