Cloudflare says daily AI agent requests on its network surged 1,700% in one year
Beth_Kindig · x · 2026-11-16
Cloudflare (NYSE: NET) reports that daily AI agent requests across its network grew more than 1,700% (18x+) over the past year, climbing steadily from June 2025 to May 2026.
The figure, highlighted by Beth Kindig of io-fund, signals that agent traffic is rapidly shifting from demos to production workloads and is becoming a new growth driver for network infrastructure.
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