Cloudflare launches bot engine it says retrains continuously on live traffic

Cloudflare says Adaptive Intelligence continuously retrains the model behind Bot Score on live traffic. Pricing, performance data and release dates for two planned components remain undisclosed.

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Primary source: The Cloudflare Blog

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Cloudflare says it analyzes more than one trillion requests each day for automated abuse and that the machine-learning model behind Bot Score now retrains continuously on live traffic. Buyers still lack benchmarks showing whether that loop improves detection without increasing false positives, while the disposable rules central to Cloudflare's attack-economics pitch have yet to launch.

Cloudflare starts continuously retraining bot defenses, with disposable rules still ahead — The launch revives Project Honey Pot's founding thesis, but the short-lived rules meant to raise attackers' costs have yet to ship.

Cloudflare, founded by Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway, launched Adaptive Intelligence on August 31st, 2026. Cloudflare says its first component gives Bot Score a machine-learning model that retrains continuously on live traffic instead of waiting for fixed model releases.…

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