Cloudflare AI Search goes GA: native multimodal embeddings + PDF OCR; billing from Nov 1; hybrid search default
On 2026-10-01 Cloudflare made AI Search generally available: managed index/retrieval (Workers AI + Vectorize + R2 + Browser Run) ships native multimodal embeddings (Qwen3-VL-Embedding), OCR for scanned PDFs, 10 MiB text/OCR PDF limits, hybrid search by default, and billing from 2026-11-01 with a free allotment.
Key Takeaways
- GA 2026-10-01: changelog + blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-ga/
- Multimodal embeddings: @cf/qwen/qwen3-vl-embedding-2b and google-ai-studio/gemini-embedding-2; image queries via REST/public endpoint
- OCR on all accounts; text/code + OCR PDFs up to 10 MiB (non-OCR PDFs stay 4 MiB)
- Hybrid search default; Workers AI embed/rerank folded into AI Search pricing (not Workers AI bill)
- Pricing: $0.75/1M ingest tokens, $2/GB-mo storage, $0.75/1k semantic, $0.10/1k full-text; free tier 5M ingest / 10 GB / 1k+1k queries; bill from Nov 1, 2026
Linked Models & Agents:
⚡ Qwen3 Vl Embedding 2b⚡ Gemini Embedding 2🤖 ai-search🤖 workers-ai🤖 vectorize🌐 cloudflare🌐 Qwen (通义千问)🌐 Google DeepMind