AI Search is now generally available

Cloudflare has made AI Search generally available, offering a managed search and retrieval pipeline built on Workers AI, Vectorize, R2, and Browser Run for uses such as documentation and website search. The release expands multimodal capabilities with native image embeddings through Qwen3-VL-Embedding, combining direct visual matching with caption-based text understanding to improve retrieval for images, screenshots, products, charts, diagrams, and scanned content. AI Search also now supports text files and PDFs up to 10 MiB and can apply OCR to scanned PDFs before chunking and embedding. Queries can be rewritten, embedded, processed through vector and keyword search in parallel, fused, reranked, and either returned as chunks or passed to a generation model. Billing will begin on November 1, 2026, covering ingestion, storage, and semantic or full-text queries, while including parsing, chunking, embedding with eligible Workers AI models, indexing, and reranking; all Workers plans retain monthly free allowances. Cloudflare plans to add video and audio ingestion, improve keyword-search scalability, and simplify index creation for Cloudflare-hosted websites.

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