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Stop bad bots without CAPTCHAs
Manage good and bad bots in real time with speed and accuracy by harnessing data from the millions of Internet properties on Cloudflare.
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Cloudflare blocks credential stuffing, content scraping, inventory hoarding, DDoS, and other malicious bot activity.
Cloudflare Bot Management uses machine learning, behavioral analysis, and fingerprinting to accurately classify bots.
Cloudflare has developed innovative ways to challenge bots without frustrating real users with CAPTCHAs.
No complex configuration or maintenance: Cloudflare Bot Management automatically recommends rules to manage bots out-of-the-box.
HOW IT WORKS
Cloudflare analyzes behavior and detects anomalies in network traffic based on how requests deviate from the baseline.
Cloudflare's machine learning trains on a curated subset of hundreds of billions of requests per day to create a reliable bot score for every request.
“The great thing about Cloudflare Bot Management solutions is I don't need to spend time fine-tuning. The machine learning algorithms just work because Cloudflare has such great data. Our lives are 1000 times easier while still ensuring our sites are both safe and fast for our customers.”
Manager, Security Engineering
Top Bot Management use cases
Block bot activity that slows down application performance, scrapes data, steals sensitive content, or performs other attacks.
Cloudflare uses an invisible, privacy-first way for users to prove they are real using Apple devices without CAPTCHAs or PII collection.
Tune bot management rules to fit your specific needs by scoping them based on a variety of criteria.
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Cloudflare Bot Management mitigates bot attacks and manages bot activity without impacting legitimate users or good bots. The service leverages global threat intelligence and machine learning to automatically protect against unwanted bot activity, without the use of user-unfriendly measures like CAPTCHA.
Cloudflare utilizes multiple detection techniques, including machine learning, analysis of bot behavior, and fingerprinting, to precisely identify and classify bots.
Cloudflare Bot Management can defend against all types of malicious bot activity, including credential stuffing, content scraping, inventory hoarding, brute force attacks, click fraud, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Cloudflare does not use CAPTCHAs. Cloudflare Bot Management has developed several methods to challenge bots without inconveniencing legitimate users with CAPTCHAs.
Private Access Tokens authenticate users with Apple devices while preserving their privacy, eliminating the need for CAPTCHAs and avoiding the collection of personal data.