# Matthew Prince

> Matthew Prince is co-founder, Cloudflare of Inc. and co-founder of Cloudflare. Cloudflare AI Gateway, Cloudflare AI Search, Clairic, Clef, Cloudflare CLI (cf), Cloudflare Email Service, Cloudflare MCP Servers, Cloudflare R2, Cloudflare Sandbox SDK, Cloudflare Web Search API and Cloudflare Workers AI on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

Co-founder, Cloudflare, Inc.. Co-founder, Cloudflare.

Matthew Prince co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 with Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway and is its CEO and co-chair. He and Holloway had earlier built Project Honey Pot, which tracked how spammers harvest email addresses, and he developed the Cloudflare business plan with Zatlyn while studying at Harvard Business School.

## What Matthew builds

- [Cloudflare AI Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.md), graded B, 66.9/100, in Model APIs & inference. AI Gateway is Cloudflare's proxy and router for model providers. Agents call OpenAI-style, Anthropic-style or native endpoints on the Cloudflare API, with logging, caching, rate and spend limits, retries, fallbacks and one prepaid credit balance. Co-founder, Cloudflare, Inc., researched 2026-10-27.
- [Cloudflare AI Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-search.md), graded BB, 73.5/100, in Retrieval & vector search. 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. Co-founder, Cloudflare, Inc., researched 2026-10-26.
- [Clairic](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-clairic.md), graded B, 66.4/100, in Document parsing & extraction. Clairic is Cloudflare's preview extraction model on Workers AI. It reads text and up to four images and returns typed values (spans, numbers, dates, durations, lists, estimates and forecasts) with a null probability and confidence score, in one pass. Co-founder, Cloudflare, researched 2026-10-27.
- [Clef](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-clef.md), graded B, 65.9/100, in Decision models. Clef, Clef-flash and Clef-omni are Cloudflare's open-weight decision models, hosted on Workers AI with Apache-2.0 weights. Clef-omni, released on 9 October 2026, also takes audio and video. Co-founder, Cloudflare, researched 2026-10-26.
- [Cloudflare CLI (cf)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-cli.md), graded B, 63.7/100, in Cloud & infrastructure. Cloudflare's command-line tool, `cf`, in open beta since 28 September 2026, runs more than 2,900 commands generated from the Cloudflare API and builds, develops and deploys Workers projects, with JSON output and command search for coding agents. Co-founder, Cloudflare, Inc., researched 2026-10-26.
- [Cloudflare Email Service](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-email-service.md), graded B, 67.4/100, in Email delivery APIs. Cloudflare Email Service sends transactional email through a REST API, a Workers binding or SMTP, and routes inbound mail to Workers or verified addresses. Email Sending is in public beta and needs the Workers Paid plan for arbitrary recipients. Co-founder, Cloudflare, researched 2026-10-27.
- [Cloudflare MCP Servers](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-mcp.md), graded BB, 70.9/100, in Cloud & infrastructure. A family of Cloudflare-hosted remote MCP servers. Co-founder, Cloudflare, researched 2026-10-26.
- [Cloudflare R2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-r2.md), graded BB, 77.6/100, in File storage & sharing. S3-compatible object storage with no egress fees. Co-founder, Cloudflare, researched 2026-10-26.
- [Cloudflare Sandbox SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk.md), graded B, 67.5/100, in Code execution sandboxes. TypeScript library for running sandboxed Linux containers from a Cloudflare Worker. Co-founder, Cloudflare, researched 2026-10-27.
- [Cloudflare Web Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-web-search.md), graded C, 61.9/100, in Web search APIs. Cloudflare's web search endpoint, in open beta since 2 October 2026, routes a query through AI Gateway to Ceramic.ai, Exa or Linkup and returns results in one format, by REST or from a Worker's AI binding. Co-founder, Cloudflare, Inc., researched 2026-10-26.
- [Cloudflare Workers AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-workers-ai.md), graded B, 68.3/100, in Model APIs & inference. Workers AI is Cloudflare's serverless inference service for open-weight models, covering text generation, embeddings, images and speech. Agents call it through the Cloudflare REST API, OpenAI-compatible endpoints or a Workers binding. Co-founder, Cloudflare, Inc., researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Aly Cabral](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aly-cabral/), VP of Developer Products
- [Lee Holloway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/lee-holloway/), Co-founder, Cloudflare, Inc.
- [Michelle Chen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michelle-chen/), Group Product Manager, AI Platform
- [Michelle Zatlyn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michelle-zatlyn/), Co-founder, Cloudflare, Inc.
- [Alex Reneau](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-reneau/), Member of Technical Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer; Clairic creator
- [Kevin Flansburg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kevin-flansburg/), Senior Engineering Manager, Workers AI Infrastructure
- [Thomas Gauvin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-gauvin/), Senior Product Manager, Developer Platform; Email Service launch co-author

## Questions

### Who is Matthew Prince?

Matthew Prince co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 with Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway and is its CEO and co-chair. He and Holloway had earlier built Project Honey Pot, which tracked how spammers harvest email addresses, and he developed the Cloudflare business plan with Zatlyn while studying at Harvard Business School.

### What does Cloudflare, Inc., Cloudflare make?

Anchor Terminal lists Cloudflare AI Gateway, Cloudflare AI Search, Clairic, Clef, Cloudflare CLI (cf), Cloudflare Email Service, Cloudflare MCP Servers, Cloudflare R2, Cloudflare Sandbox SDK, Cloudflare Web Search API and Cloudflare Workers AI from Cloudflare, Inc., Cloudflare. AI Gateway is Cloudflare's proxy and router for model providers. Agents call OpenAI-style, Anthropic-style or native endpoints on the Cloudflare API, with logging, caching, rate and spend limits, retries, fallbacks and one prepaid credit balance.

### How are Matthew's tools graded?

Cloudflare AI Gateway is graded B, 66.9 out of 100; Cloudflare AI Search is graded BB, 73.5 out of 100; Clairic is graded B, 66.4 out of 100; Clef is graded B, 65.9 out of 100; Cloudflare CLI (cf) is graded B, 63.7 out of 100; Cloudflare Email Service is graded B, 67.4 out of 100; Cloudflare MCP Servers is graded BB, 70.9 out of 100; Cloudflare R2 is graded BB, 77.6 out of 100; Cloudflare Sandbox SDK is graded B, 67.5 out of 100; Cloudflare Web Search API is graded C, 61.9 out of 100; Cloudflare Workers AI is graded B, 68.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/aly-cabral-83682664/
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-ai-gateway-unification/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchenco/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchenco
- https://www.cloudflare.com/our-story/
- https://www.cloudflare.com/
- https://www.cloudflare.com/about/
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/contacting-cloudflare-support/
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-reneau-4b3086160/details/experience/
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/author/alex-reneau/
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/clairic-extraction-model/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-reneau-4b3086160
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kflansburg/details/experience/
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/author/kevin-flansburg/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kflansburg/
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/models/clairic/
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-for-agents/
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/author/thomas-gauvin/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-gauvin/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-gauvin
- https://x.com/thomasgauvin
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-service/
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/faster-agent-sandboxes/
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/sandbox/
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/sandbox-ga/

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