# Cloudflare AI Search goes GA, bills $0.75 per million tokens

Published: 2026-10-04T22:18:20.732Z · Source: PPC Land (https://ppc.land/cloudflare-ai-search-starts-billing-november-1-at-0-75-per-million-tokens/)
Source date: 2026-10-05
Entities: cloudflare

Cloudflare's AI Search — a managed retrieval pipeline combining Workers AI, Vectorize, R2 and Browser Run — moved from preview to general availability on October 1, 2026, with usage billing starting November 1, per Cloudflare's announcement. Ingestion costs $0.75 per million tokens (plus $0.50 per million for image tokens), storage $2 per GB-month, and queries $0.75 per 1,000 semantic or $0.10 per 1,000 full-text searches, after a free monthly allotment of 5 million ingestion tokens, 10 GB storage, and 1,000 queries of each kind on every Workers plan. The release also adds native image embeddings via the Qwen3-VL-Embedding model and OCR support for scanned PDFs, and raises the per-file size limit from 4 MiB to 10 MiB.

Why it matters: It's a concrete, published price for AI-era retrieval infrastructure — the kind of RAG tooling several vendors have kept in free preview — as Cloudflare turns on metered billing for it.

## What this answers

**How much does Cloudflare AI Search cost?**

Starting November 1, 2026, Cloudflare bills AI Search at $0.75 per million ingested tokens (plus $0.50 per million for image tokens), $2 per GB-month stored, $0.75 per 1,000 semantic queries, and $0.10 per 1,000 full-text queries, after a free monthly allotment of 5 million tokens, 10 GB storage, and 1,000 queries of each kind on every Workers plan.

**When does Cloudflare AI Search start charging for usage?**

November 1, 2026, per Cloudflare's October 1 announcement moving the product from preview to general availability.

**Does Cloudflare AI Search support scanned PDFs?**

Yes — the October 1, 2026 general-availability release adds OCR for scanned PDFs, native image embeddings via the Qwen3-VL-Embedding model, and raises the per-file size limit from 4 MiB to 10 MiB.


Canonical: https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-10-04-cloudflare-ai-search-goes-ga-bills-0-75-per-million-tokens/
From Anything Engine Optimization (AEO Wire) — https://anythingengineoptimization.com/ · Standards: https://anythingengineoptimization.com/standards/