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title: Free
description: Bot protection features included in the Cloudflare Free plan.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/core-services-preview.png
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> Documentation Index  
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/llms.txt  
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# Free

To learn more about features and functionality, select a plan.

[ Free ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/plans/free/) [ Pro ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/plans/pro/) [ Business ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/plans/biz-and-ent/) [ Bot Management for Enterprise ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/plans/bm-subscription/) 

| **Plan name**             | Bot Fight Mode                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Availability**          | All Free customers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| **Type of bots detected** | Simple bots from cloud hosting providers and headless browsers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| **Actions**               | Cloudflare issues a computationally expensive challenge                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| **Control**               | Applied to all traffic across a domain                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| **Additional features**   | [Block AI bots](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/block-ai-bots/), [AI Labyrinth](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/ai-labyrinth/), [Instruct AI bot traffic with robots.txt](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/managed-robots-txt/) |

## How do I get started?

To get started, review our [setup guides](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/get-started/). If you have any questions, visit the [community ↗](https://community.cloudflare.com/) to engage with other Cloudflare users.

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/directory/","name":"Directory"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/bots/","name":"Bots"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"/bots/plans/","name":"Plans"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@id":"/bots/plans/free/","name":"Free"}}]}
```