{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cloudflare-ai-search", "name": "Cloudflare AI Search", "vendor": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.cloudflare.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "vector-search", "summary": "Cloudflare's managed retrieval service, formerly AutoRAG, indexes websites, R2 buckets and uploaded files and answers natural-language queries with vector, keyword or hybrid search, through a REST API, a Workers binding or a per-instance MCP endpoint.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-search", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-search.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-search.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-ai-search.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement. The `cloudflare` SDKs are Apache-2.0, `ai-search-provider` is MIT and the OpenAPI repository is BSD-3-Clause", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "cloudflare" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cloudflare" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "ai-search-provider" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A Cloudflare API token as a Bearer header, created by a person in the dashboard, with the AI Search permission at Read, Run or Edit on an account. The search guide asks for Edit and Run. Tokens take an expiry and an IP address filter, and the OpenAPI also accepts the legacy global API key with an email. Public endpoints (`/search`, `/chat/completions`, `/mcp`) take no authentication unless the owner puts a custom domain behind Cloudflare Access, which then needs a service token in two headers. Inside a Worker the binding needs no token.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Billing starts on 1 November 2026. Each month every account gets 5 million ingestion tokens, 10 GB-month of storage, 1,000 semantic and 1,000 full-text queries. Beyond that, $0.75 per million ingestion tokens (plus $0.50 for images and OCR), $2.00 per GB-month, $0.75 per 1,000 semantic or hybrid queries and $0.10 per 1,000 full-text queries. Generation and query rewriting bill through Workers AI or AI Gateway (https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/platform/limits-pricing/, checked 2026-10-17).", "priceSummary": "$0.75 / 1k req", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "The AI Search docs, pricing page and OpenAPI operations mention no x402, MPP or L402. AI Gateway Machine Payments covers only POST /ai/run for four open models (https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/platform/limits-pricing/, checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 1, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 86, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudflare/api-schemas/main/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "db.hybrid", "db.vector", "db.fulltext", "db.filters", "db.serverless", "knowledge.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-based", "free-tier", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "openai-compatible", "streaming", "typescript", "python", "cli", "status-page", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 73.5, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 92, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 88, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 45, "reliability": 70, "schema": 89, "security": 68, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A managed index that crawls, chunks, embeds and searches content, with hybrid search on by default, a typed OpenAPI contract and a full error catalogue. Generally available since 1 October 2026, with billing from 1 November. Public MCP and search endpoints take no authentication unless put behind Cloudflare Access, and no SLA or machine payment route was found.", "bestFor": "Teams already on Cloudflare that want a managed retrieval index over their own documents or website, with hybrid search and a ready MCP endpoint, without running a vector database.", "strengths": [ "Hybrid vector and BM25 search on by default, with metadata filters applied before retrieval", "Error catalogue with code, HTTP status and recommended action for every documented failure", "Public OpenAPI with enums and bounds on retrieval options, plus llms.txt and Markdown pages", "Every account gets 1,000 semantic and 1,000 full-text queries and 10 GB-month of storage free each month", "Files uploaded to built-in storage are indexed on upload, with no sync job" ], "weaknesses": [ "Public endpoints, including MCP, answer anyone with the URL unless a custom domain sits behind Cloudflare Access", "No SLA for AI Search found", "No x402 or other machine payment route. A person signs up and creates the token", "At most 50 results a query, with no pagination of search results", "The search guide asks for Edit and Run permissions for a read, and the OpenAPI still tags operations beta" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `/ai-search/namespaces/default/instances/{id}/search`. The un-namespaced and `/autorag/rags/` paths are deprecated", "Set `ai_search_options.retrieval.max_num_results` (1 to 50, default 10) and `match_threshold` (default 0.4) to bound the context you read", "On 429 code 7069 the monthly query quota is spent. Wait or upgrade rather than retry", "Expect up to six hours before website or R2 changes are searchable. Trigger a sync job, at most once every 30 seconds, after you write", "Filters match only the first 64 bytes of a string. Use a `$gte`/`$lt` range on `folder` to match a folder and its subfolders" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 73.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 88, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 45, "reliability": 70, "schema": 89, "security": 68, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "install": "npx wrangler ai-search create docs-search --type builtin", "http": "curl -X POST \"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/\u003cACCOUNT_ID\u003e/ai-search/namespaces/default/instances/\u003cINSTANCE_NAME\u003e/search\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI_TOKEN\u003e\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"messages\": [\n {\n \"content\": \"What is Cloudflare?\",\n \"role\": \"user\"\n }\n ]\n }'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "ai-search": { "url": "https://\u003cPUBLIC_ENDPOINT_ID\u003e.search.ai.cloudflare.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/db.hybrid", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cloudflare-ai-search" }, "sameCompany": [ "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "cloudflare-workers-ai", "cloudflare-sandbox-sdk", "cloudflare-web-search", "cloudflare-cli", "cloudflare-mcp", "cloudflare-email-service", "cloudflare-r2", "cloudflare-clef" ], "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Semantic, vector or hybrid queries beyond 1,000 a month", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.75 }, { "item": "Full-text queries beyond 1,000 a month", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.1 }, { "item": "Ingestion beyond 5 million tokens a month", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.75 }, { "item": "Image processing and OCR, on top of ingestion", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.5 }, { "item": "Storage beyond 10 GB-month", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 2 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "domain": "cloudflare.com", "domainRegistered": "2009-02-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/", "statusPage": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "changelog": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/platform/release-note/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "Legal entity, domain date, terms and privacy follow the Workers AI listing's check of 9 October 2026. We didn't re-read them for this listing.", "www.cloudflare.com/.well-known/security.txt, read on 17 October 2026, names HackerOne and a disclosure policy and has no Expires field. It is recorded as valid to match the other Cloudflare listings.", "The service-specific terms of 28 September 2026 have no AI Search section. Vectorize, R2 and Workers fall under the Developer Platform section.", "The REST endpoints are on api.cloudflare.com and public endpoints on search.ai.cloudflare.com.", "The status page lists AI Search as its own component, operational on 17 October 2026." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-search.json", "live": { "slug": "cloudflare-ai-search", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "indicator": "major", "summary": "Partial System Outage", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T00:08:18.743113772Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/platform/release-note/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:59:22.507495336Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b6f792cd538f" }, { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/platform/limits-pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:59:20.518509532Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "8f0bdb38f9de" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:08:18.743113772Z" } }, "answer": "Cloudflare AI Search scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Weaviate API + MCP's 67.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Weaviate API + MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "weaviate", "name": "Weaviate API + MCP", "vendor": "Weaviate", "vendorUrl": "https://weaviate.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "vector-search", "summary": "Open-source vector database written in Go, run yourself or on Weaviate Cloud.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/weaviate.json", "repo": "https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate", "license": "BSD-3-Clause (some parts under the Weaviate License)", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "weaviate-client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "weaviate-client" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Weaviate Cloud clusters take an API key as a Bearer token, with RBAC roles scoping collections and operations. Self-hosted instances can run with API keys, OIDC or anonymous access. The built-in MCP endpoint uses the same Bearer key and honours RBAC.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Weaviate Cloud Free is $0 with no card, one cluster with 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk and one collection. Flex starts at $45 a month pay-as-you-go, billed on vector dimensions (from $0.00465 per million), storage (from $0.12 per GiB) and backups (from $0.029 per GiB). Premium starts at $400 a month on a prepaid contract, shared or dedicated. Weaviate Embeddings from $0.025 per million tokens, and Query Agent $30 a month per organisation with 4,000 requests. Self-hosting the open-source database is free, you pay for your own servers (https://weaviate.io/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$45 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or per-call payment support in the docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 4, "popularity": { "githubStars": 16859, "npmWeekly": 406164, "pypiWeekly": 2334531, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.weaviate.io/weaviate", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.weaviate.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.weaviate.io/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "db.vector", "db.hybrid", "db.fulltext", "db.filters" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "read-only-mode", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 261, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 92, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 40, "reliability": 35, "schema": 82, "security": 79, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Built-in MCP server with 4 typed tools, readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints on each, and write tools hidden until enabled. No public status page or incident history.", "bestFor": "Hybrid keyword and vector retrieval with filters and multi-tenancy, self-hosted or managed, and for agents that work over MCP.", "strengths": [ "Built-in MCP server with 4 typed tools, readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints on each, and write tools hidden until enabled", "Cloud API keys carry an RBAC role and can be rotated, and RBAC decisions go to an audit log", "Per-unit cloud prices published, and a free cluster with no card", "SLAs of 99.5% on Flex up to 99.95% on dedicated Premium", "v1.39.8 on 1 October 2026, with patch releases on three supported minors every week or two" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public status page or incident history", "No request limits or 429 guidance published for the database API", "Self-hosted telemetry is on by default, and the docs say it may be shared with third parties to find customers", "The OpenAPI file covers REST only. Search and bulk import lean on gRPC and the client libraries", "On Weaviate Cloud the MCP endpoint is always on and allows writes until someone flips the read-only toggle" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `weaviate-collections-get-config` first so the model sees property names before it writes a filter", "`weaviate-query-hybrid` defaults `alpha` to 0.75, so lower it for keyword-heavy queries", "Turn on the read-only toggle in Weaviate Cloud before giving an agent the MCP endpoint", "Set object IDs with `generate_uuid5` so a retried import doesn't create duplicates", "Free clusters hold one collection. Use tenants rather than extra collections" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 92, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 40, "reliability": 35, "schema": 82, "security": 79, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 66 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install weaviate-client", "http": "curl -s \"$WEAVIATE_URL/v1/meta\" -H \"Authorization: Bearer $WEAVIATE_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http weaviate \"$WEAVIATE_URL/v1/mcp\" --header \"Authorization: Bearer $WEAVIATE_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "weaviate": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${WEAVIATE_API_KEY}" }, "url": "${WEAVIATE_URL}/v1/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/db.vector", "tool": "https://letme.dev/weaviate" }, "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Flex plan minimum", "unit": "month", "usd": 45, "note": "pay-as-you-go" }, { "item": "Premium plan minimum", "unit": "month", "usd": 400, "note": "prepaid contract" }, { "item": "Storage on Flex", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.12, "note": "from, per GiB" }, { "item": "Backup on Flex", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.029, "note": "from, per GiB" }, { "item": "Query Agent", "unit": "month", "usd": 30, "note": "per organisation, 4,000 requests included" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Weaviate B.V.", "domain": "weaviate.io", "domainRegistered": "2022-01-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://weaviate.io/service/weaviate-cloud-agreement", "privacy": "https://weaviate.io/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.weaviate.io/weaviate/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "Weaviate Cloud clusters are served from weaviate.cloud subdomains, a second Weaviate domain", "status.weaviate.io doesn't resolve, and status.weaviate.cloud is titled Weaviate Enterprise Status but shows no public components or incidents, so no status page is listed" ], "score": 66 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate.json", "live": { "slug": "weaviate", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "weaviate/weaviate", "version": "v1.40.1", "released": "2026-10-13", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:26:22.448292001Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "weaviate-client", "version": "3.15.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:26:21.563269929Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "weaviate-client", "version": "4.23.1", "released": "2026-09-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:26:21.447317008Z" } ], "githubStars": 16887, "npmWeekly": 379335, "pypiWeekly": 1546377, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://weaviate.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:51:59.144571554Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.weaviate.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T14:23:30.303011899Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "weaviate.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:26:15.193094142Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.weaviate.io/weaviate/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:02:28.313131492Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:05:42.397774391Z", "fingerprint": "d0cf3529de44" }, { "url": "https://weaviate.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:12:22.15756641Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T21:09:24.423618122Z", "fingerprint": "0307d6112796" }, { "url": "https://weaviate.io/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:12:24.59582373Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T21:09:26.682077544Z", "fingerprint": "e76303afaf46" }, { "url": "https://weaviate.io/service/weaviate-cloud-agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:12:26.434150607Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T21:09:28.808478017Z", "fingerprint": "1e8e661e37b4" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T23:12:26.434150607Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "b": "Weaviate", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$0.75 per 1,000 requests", "b": "not published", "name": "Price for db hybrid" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement. The `cloudflare` SDKs are Apache-2.0, `ai-search-provider` is MIT and the OpenAPI repository is BSD-3-Clause", "b": "BSD-3-Clause (some parts under the Weaviate License)", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "1", "b": "4", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-16", "b": "2026-10-01", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-09-12", "b": "2026-05-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2024-02-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "86 npm/wk", "b": "17k stars, 406k npm/wk, 2.3M PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.5/5 (4)", "b": "3.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Cloudflare AI Search scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Weaviate API + MCP's 67.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Weaviate API + MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare AI Search or Weaviate API + MCP?" }, { "answer": "Cloudflare AI Search takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Weaviate API + MCP needs an API key.", "question": "Do Cloudflare AI Search and Weaviate API + MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Cloudflare AI Search. No hosted endpoint is listed for Weaviate API + MCP.", "question": "Can an agent call Cloudflare AI Search and Weaviate API + MCP without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Cloudflare AI Search. Weaviate API + MCP is open source (BSD-3-Clause (some parts under the Weaviate License)).", "question": "Are Cloudflare AI Search and Weaviate API + MCP open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 70 against 35", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 82", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 45 against 40", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 68" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "Teams already on Cloudflare that want a managed retrieval index over their own documents or website, with hybrid search and a ready MCP endpoint, without running a vector database.", "slug": "cloudflare-ai-search", "watchFor": "Public endpoints, including MCP, answer anyone with the URL unless a custom domain sits behind Cloudflare Access" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 68", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 78" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Hybrid keyword and vector retrieval with filters and 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No public status page or incident history." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-search-vs-weaviate", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-search-vs-weaviate.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-search-vs-weaviate.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-search-vs-weaviate.min.md" }, "markdown": "Cloudflare AI Search scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Weaviate API + MCP's 67.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Weaviate API + MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do db hybrid.\n\n- Cloudflare AI Search: grade BB, 73.5/100, rank #92 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-search.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-ai-search.json\n- Weaviate API + MCP: grade B, 67.9/100, rank #261 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/weaviate.json\n- Best vector search and retrieval databases for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/vector-search/index.md\n- All 98 retrieval comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/vector-search/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cloudflare AI Search (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams already on Cloudflare that want a managed retrieval index over their own documents or website, with hybrid search and a ready MCP endpoint, without running a vector database.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 82\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 45 against 40\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 68\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: Public endpoints, including MCP, answer anyone with the URL unless a custom domain sits behind Cloudflare Access\n\n### Weaviate API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Hybrid keyword and vector retrieval with filters and multi-tenancy, self-hosted or managed, and for agents that work over MCP.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 68\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 78\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No public status page or incident history\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudflare AI Search | Weaviate API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 35 | Cloudflare AI Search +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 89 | 82 | Cloudflare AI Search +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 92 | Weaviate API + MCP +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 79 | Weaviate API + MCP +11 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 45 | 40 | Cloudflare AI Search +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 90 | Weaviate API + MCP +12 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 68 | Cloudflare AI Search +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **73.5 · BB** | **67.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudflare AI Search | Weaviate API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Weaviate |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for db hybrid | $0.75 per 1,000 requests | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement. The `cloudflare` SDKs are Apache-2.0, `ai-search-provider` is MIT and the OpenAPI repository is BSD-3-Clause | BSD-3-Clause (some parts under the Weaviate License) |\n| Tools exposed | 1 | 4 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | 2026-05-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2024-02-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 86 npm/wk | 17k stars, 406k npm/wk, 2.3M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cloudflare AI Search.** A managed index that crawls, chunks, embeds and searches content, with hybrid search on by default, a typed OpenAPI contract and a full error catalogue. Generally available since 1 October 2026, with billing from 1 November. Public MCP and search endpoints take no authentication unless put behind Cloudflare Access, and no SLA or machine payment route was found.\n\n**Weaviate API + MCP.** Built-in MCP server with 4 typed tools, readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints on each, and write tools hidden until enabled. No public status page or incident history.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cloudflare AI Search\n\n1. Use `/ai-search/namespaces/default/instances/{id}/search`. The un-namespaced and `/autorag/rags/` paths are deprecated\n2. Set `ai_search_options.retrieval.max_num_results` (1 to 50, default 10) and `match_threshold` (default 0.4) to bound the context you read\n3. On 429 code 7069 the monthly query quota is spent. Wait or upgrade rather than retry\n4. Expect up to six hours before website or R2 changes are searchable. Trigger a sync job, at most once every 30 seconds, after you write\n5. Filters match only the first 64 bytes of a string. Use a `$gte`/`$lt` range on `folder` to match a folder and its subfolders\n\n### Weaviate API + MCP\n\n1. Call `weaviate-collections-get-config` first so the model sees property names before it writes a filter\n2. `weaviate-query-hybrid` defaults `alpha` to 0.75, so lower it for keyword-heavy queries\n3. Turn on the read-only toggle in Weaviate Cloud before giving an agent the MCP endpoint\n4. Set object IDs with `generate_uuid5` so a retried import doesn't create duplicates\n5. Free clusters hold one collection. Use tenants rather than extra collections\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare AI Search or Weaviate API + MCP?\n\nCloudflare AI Search scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Weaviate API + MCP's 67.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Weaviate API + MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Cloudflare AI Search and Weaviate API + MCP need an API key?\n\nCloudflare AI Search takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Weaviate API + MCP needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudflare AI Search and Weaviate API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Cloudflare AI Search. No hosted endpoint is listed for Weaviate API + MCP.\n\n### Are Cloudflare AI Search and Weaviate API + MCP open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Cloudflare AI Search. Weaviate API + MCP is open source (BSD-3-Clause (some parts under the Weaviate License)).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-search-vs-weaviate.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-search-vs-weaviate.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudflare-ai-search\", \"b\": \"weaviate\"}`. 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