Cloudflare REST API v4
Control-plane and analytics API for DNS zones, Cloudflare Workers, Pages, WAF firewall rules, R2/KV/D1 storage and CDN cache purging.
When is this useful?
Infrastructure-as-Code, automated DNS/TLS provisioning and serverless edge deployments.
Access & pricing
Personal API key
Uses scoped API tokens (Authorization: Bearer) with granular per-zone or per-account permissions.
Free tier + paid
The REST API is included across both Free and paid Cloudflare plans.
Get your own key only from the provider. Never enter keys or tokens here.
Limitations & terms
Subject to a standard global rate limit of 1,200 API requests per 5 minutes per user/token.
Commercial use: Allowed per source
No terms source recorded; permission has not been established.
Provenance & attributes
Kind: api · HTTPS: unknown · CORS: unknown
Sources: profiles
Categories: Developer tools ·
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