Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

Post by _heimdall » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 11:08 AM UTC

MikeNotThePope wrote: post #119

jedberg wrote: post #117

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I've dealt with this before. The problem with doing a billing cap is that now you are bringing an out-of-band batch system (billing) in-band. The only way to do a dollar cap is to constantly calculate your bill. Capping it at 100K requests is a lot easier, because it's a single number that can be incremented easily in a distributed way. It's the same reason it took AWS forever to offer billing caps, and even today, t…

How about implementing a prepaid system where you set your budget, and if you exceed it, everything just pauses until you pay more?

Post by dbbk » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 12:20 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #117

simonw wrote: post #47

Looks like Cloudflare still haven't shipped the most valuable possible feature for Cloudflare Workers though: hard billing caps. I want to set a cap of $100/month and know, for sure, that if something untoward happens my apps will all stop serving traffic rather than me getting hit with a bill for $1000s. The safest way to use Workers is on the free tier, which will shut off after 100,000 requests/day: https://develo…

I've dealt with this before. The problem with doing a billing cap is that now you are bringing an out-of-band batch system (billing) in-band. The only way to do a dollar cap is to constantly calculate your bill. Capping it at 100K requests is a lot easier, because it's a single number that can be incremented easily in a distributed way. It's the same reason it took AWS forever to offer billing caps, and even today, t…

Post by FergusArgyll » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC

Post by PUSH_AX » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC

piterrro wrote: post #41

Lets keep in mind this is cloudflare workers runtime - it only makes sense to deploy small things there, maybe static sites. Unless the agent creates something for cf workers from scratch, asking it to „now deploy to cloudflare” will fail so bad. This would only work if they would provision docker image deployment, similar to google cloud run, but the still, everything serveless has its own caveats…

Post by inigyou » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #78

rdtsc wrote: post #14

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> Would love to know more about how Cloudflare plans to prevent abuse of ephemeral infrastructure to host malicious content If it helps laugh DDoS attacks they would be incentivized to do the exact opposite. They can charge more for “protection” then.

DDoS is one thing you wouldn't be launching from Cloudflare, but if they can get enough types of other bot traffic (whether malicious or "legitimate" or just general grey zone) to use them as the starting point, it improves their error rates when dealing with bot traffic that didn't migrate.