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Last updated Jul 10, 2026 AI Search is a managed search service. Connect a website, an R2 bucket, or upload your own documents, and AI Search indexes your content for natural language queries.
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Workers API
Create, populate, and query an AI Search instance from a Cloudflare Worker.
CLI
Create and manage AI Search instances from the command line.
Dashboard
Create and configure AI Search using the Cloudflare dashboard.
Python SDK
Create, populate, and query an AI Search instance from Python.
REST API
Create AI Search instances programmatically using the REST API.
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