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title: Get started
description: Create fully-managed, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines with Cloudflare AI Search.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dev-products-preview.png
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# Get started

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.

## Prerequisites

If you plan to use an R2 bucket as your data source, you must have an active [R2 subscription](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/get-started/) before creating your AI Search instance. If you plan to use a website or upload files directly, no additional setup is required.

## Choose your setup method

[ Dashboard ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/get-started/dashboard/) Create and configure AI Search using the Cloudflare dashboard. 

[ API ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/get-started/api/) Create AI Search instances programmatically using the REST API. 

[ Wrangler commands ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/get-started/wrangler/) Create and manage AI Search instances from the command line. 

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