Stop scrapers, fake accounts and abuse — without blocking real customers

Cloudflare bot protection (bot management) scores every incoming request using machine learning, behavioural signals and Cloudflare's network-wide intelligence to judge whether a visitor is a real human or an automated script. Based on that score and your own rules, traffic can be allowed, challenged with Turnstile, rate-limited or blocked. Edgecraft configures and tunes this for e-commerce, SaaS, marketplaces and publishers so scrapers, credential-stuffing bots and fake signups are stopped while real customers and legitimate bots like Googlebot pass through.

No — and this is the most important distinction. Cloudflare works at the traffic layer, separating bots from humans and cutting automated abuse like card-testing volume, credential stuffing and bulk checkout bots. It does not assess the financial risk of an individual transaction, run 3-D Secure, manage chargebacks or stop fraud committed by a real human using a valid stolen card. For card-not-present fraud you still need a dedicated payment-fraud platform such as Stripe Radar, Signifyd or Riskified. Cloudflare reduces the noise so those tools work on a smaller, cleaner problem.

Not when it's configured correctly. The biggest risk with bot rules is accidentally blocking search engines or breaking integrations. We explicitly allow and validate verified crawlers like Googlebot and Bingbot, allowlist payment webhooks, monitoring and partner APIs, and roll out rules in monitor-only mode first so we can confirm nothing legitimate is affected before any blocking goes live. The goal is protection that real customers and search engines never notice.

Turnstile is Cloudflare's privacy-friendly CAPTCHA alternative. Instead of forcing users to click traffic lights or read distorted text, it verifies visitors in the background using behavioural and device signals, usually with no interaction at all. It's ideal for login pages, signup forms, contact forms and checkout, where it stops bots and form spam while keeping friction extremely low for genuine users.

Yes. We apply bot scoring and per-route, per-token rate limiting to your APIs and mobile backends to stop excessive, automated or unauthorized calls, scraping of your data and abuse of expensive endpoints. For high-traffic APIs and marketplaces we use advanced Bot Management tuning and can combine it with Zero Trust access controls and a WAF for layered protection.

A bot protection setup starts from $2,500, which includes traffic analysis, Bot Management and Turnstile configuration, rate limiting, custom bot rules, SEO-safe rollout and documentation. Ongoing managed Bot Protection Care starts from $2,500/month. Final pricing is indicative and depends on your traffic volume, number of domains, Cloudflare plan, how many endpoints need protecting and your support needs. Enterprise and high-traffic environments are scoped individually.

Yes — Cloudflare lets you decide which AI training and answer-engine crawlers may access your site and which may not, and enforce that policy. We align AI-crawler rules with your content and SEO strategy so you can block unwanted scraping while still allowing the bots you want. This is covered in more depth on our AI Crawler Control page.

It significantly reduces all three. Turnstile and bot rules on registration forms cut mass fake-account creation; rate limiting and bot scoring reduce spam and card-testing orders; and rate limits plus waiting-room patterns help stop scalper and hoarding bots from locking up limited stock. It won't catch fraud carried out by a patient human, but it removes the automated bulk of these problems.