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Cloudflare Always Online

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Cloudflare Always Online is a CDN service bot from Cloudflare used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access; it appears in server logs as `CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline`.

Cdn Service Availability Caching Official Documented Confidence: High Verified: Yes robots.txt: Unknown
Operator
Cloudflare
Family
Cloudflare
Source type
Official
Last checked
2026-06-22

User-Agent Pattern

Cloudflare
CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline
Verification note

User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.

Robots.txt Snippet

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User-agent: CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline
Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

Depends

Use this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.

Cloudflare Always Online is used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access.

Record Details

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Operator
Cloudflare
Family
Cloudflare
Type
Cdn Service
Purpose
Availability Caching
Identity type
Official Documented
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-06-22
Last checked
2026-06-22
Source type
Official
Verification
Verify Cloudflare Always Online by matching `CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline` to Cloudflare evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Spoofing risk
Cloudflare Always Online has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.

Notes

  • Cloudflare Always Online is a CDN service bot from Cloudflare used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access.
  • Its primary user-agent pattern is CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline; related patterns include CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline/1.0; Cloudflare Always Online.
  • Cloudflare Always Online is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
  • Cloudflare Always Online does not have confirmed robots.txt behavior in the available public evidence.
  • Cloudflare Always Online should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.

Evidence and Source

  • Verify Cloudflare Always Online by matching `CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline` to Cloudflare evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
  • Cloudflare Always Online traffic is primarily detected by the `CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline/1.0; Cloudflare Always Online`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Cloudflare infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
  • Cloudflare Always Online is used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access.
  • Cloudflare Always Online has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/cloudflare-site-crawling/

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