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title: Bot Management · Cloudflare bot solutions docs
description: Bot Management for Enterprise is a paid add-on that provides
  sophisticated bot protection for your domain. Customers can identify automated
  traffic, take appropriate action, and view detailed analytics within the
  dashboard.
lastUpdated: 2025-09-26T21:09:24.000Z
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Bot Management for Enterprise is a paid add-on that provides sophisticated bot protection for your domain. Customers can identify automated traffic, take appropriate action, and view detailed analytics within the dashboard.

This Enterprise product provides the most flexibility to customers by:

* Generating a [bot score](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot-score/) of 1-99 for every request. Scores below 30 are commonly associated with bot traffic.
* Allowing customers to take action on this score with [WAF custom rules](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/custom-rules/) or [`Workers`](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/request/#incomingrequestcfproperties).
* Allowing customers to view this score in Bot Analytics or Logs.

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## Enable Bot Management for Enterprise

Bot Management is automatically enabled for Enterprise zones entitled with the add-on.

* Old dashboard

  To enable a [Bot Management](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/security/bots) trial on Enterprise zones without the Bot Management add-on entitled:

  1. Log in to your [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/), and select your account and domain.
  2. Go to **Security** > **Bots**.
  3. Select **Add Bot Management**.

* New dashboard

  1. In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to the **Security Settings** page.

     [Go to **Settings**](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/security/settings)

  2. Filter by **Bot traffic**.

  3. Go to **Bot management**.

  4. Turn **Bot management** on.

  5. Choose how your domain should respond to various types of traffic by selecting the associated edit icon.

     * For more details on verified bots, refer to [Verified Bots](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot/#verified-bots).
     * For more details on supported file types, refer to [Static resource protection](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/static-resources/).
     * For more details on invisible code injection, refer to [JavaScript detections](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/javascript-detections/).
     * For more details on WordPress optimization, refer to [Super Bot Fight Mode for WordPress](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/troubleshooting/wordpress-loopback-issue/).

Note

If you are not seeing Bot Management enabled on your zone or if you still see **Add Bot Management** on the Cloudflare dashboard, contact your account team for the proper entitlements.

***

## Setup

Cloudflare recommends that you deploy the following basic settings and customize them according to the traffic in your zone.

### Enable the latest Machine Learning version

Cloudflare encourages Enterprise customers to enable auto-updates to its Machine Learning models to get the newest bot detection models as they are released.

To enable auto-updates:

* Old dashboard

  1. Log in to the [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/), and select your account and domain.
  2. Go to **Security** > **Bots**.
  3. Select **Configure Bot Management**.
  4. Enable **Auto-updates to the Machine Learning Model**.

* New dashboard

  1. In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to the **Security Settings** page.

     [Go to **Settings**](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/security/settings)

  2. Filter by **Bot traffic**.

  3. Go to **Bot Management**.

  4. Under **Configurations**, select the edit icon for **Auto-updates to the Machine Learning Model** and turn it on.

### Block AI Bots

Refer to [Block AI bots](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/block-ai-bots/).

Note

You can view blocked AI bot traffic via [Security Analytics](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/analytics/security-analytics/).

### Deploy default templates

Cloudflare has [default templates](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/security/security-rules?template=bot_traffic) for definite bots, which have a [bot score](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot-score/) of 1, and likely bots which have a bot score of 2 to 29. In our templates, Cloudflare recommends to allow verified bots such as Google SEO Crawler and access to cached static resources.

* [Definite Bots template](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone:/security/security-rules/custom-rules/create?template=Definitely%20Bots): Targets malicious bot traffic while ignoring verified bots and routes delivering static content.

  ```txt
  (cf.bot_management.score eq 1 and not cf.bot_management.verified_bot and not cf.bot_management.static_resource)
  ```

* [Likely Bots template](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/security/security-rules/custom-rules/create?template=Likely%20Bots): Targets traffic likely to be malicious bots while ignoring verified bots and routes with static content. It may contain a small amount of non-bot traffic.

  ```txt
  (cf.bot_management.score ge 2 and cf.bot_management.score le 29 and not cf.bot_management.verified_bot and not cf.bot_management.static_resource)
  ```

* (Optional) [JavaScript detections template](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/security/security-rules/custom-rules/create?template=JavaScript%20Verified%20URLs): If you enabled JavaScript detections, then set up a [managed challenge](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-challenges/challenge-types/challenge-pages/#managed-challenge-recommended), make sure to add a method and URI path. JavaScript detections improves security for URLs that should only expect JavaScript-enabled clients.

  ```txt
  (not cf.bot_management.js_detection.passed and http.request.method eq "" and http.request.uri.path in {""})
  ```
