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title: Pro
description: Bot protection features included in the Cloudflare Pro plan.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/core-services-preview.png
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# Pro

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**             | Super Bot Fight Mode                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Availability**          | All Pro customers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| **Type of bots detected** | Simple bots and headless browsers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| **Actions**               | Customer chooses whether to allow, block, or challenge                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| **Analytics**             | Limited analytics available in a **Bot Report**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| **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/), [Definitely automated bots](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot-score/#bot-groupings), [Verified bots](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot/verified-bots/), [Static resource protection](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/static-resources/), [Optimize for WordPress](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/troubleshooting/wordpress-loopback-issue/), [JavaScript Detections](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-challenges/challenge-types/javascript-detections/) |

## Bot settings versus custom rules

The following features are handled automatically in **Security Settings** and do not require custom rules:

| Feature                                         | Handled by bot settings | Requires custom rules                                                                     |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Block or challenge definitely automated traffic | Yes                     | Only for path-specific or threshold-tuned rules                                           |
| Block or challenge likely automated traffic     | Not available on Pro    | Yes, with [Bot Management](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/plans/bm-subscription/) |
| Allow or block verified bots                    | Yes                     | No                                                                                        |
| Block AI crawlers                               | Yes                     | Only to target individual AI crawlers                                                     |
| Protect static resources                        | Yes                     | No                                                                                        |
| Optimize for WordPress                          | Yes                     | No                                                                                        |

For more details on when custom rules are needed, refer to [custom rules](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/custom-rules/).

## 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.

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```