New Cloudflare AI Gateways require authentication
Cloudflare now requires authentication on newly created AI Gateways, closing open gateways by default. Reported 3 November 2026 by developers.cloudflare.com, read 4 November 2026; products involved: Cloudflare AI Gateway. The full text of New Cloudflare AI Gateways require authentication is at the source linked below.
What it changes in the data held here
Of 817 reachable endpoints in the directory, 812 answered over Streamable HTTP and 5 over the legacy SSE transport. The 2026-07-28 specification classes SSE as deprecated, so the second figure is the count of servers that will need to move.
Cloudflare AI Gateway on this directory's rubric, as read on 4 November 2026: protocols fronted: model APIs; MCP goes through portals; auth passthrough: BYOK or Unified Billing.
Source: developers.cloudflare.com, a primary source, dated 3 November 2026 and read 4 November 2026. The opening paragraph above is the item; the figures in this section come from this directory's own run of 4 November 2026.
Where it shows up here
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: rubric and evidence
- Build a remote MCP server on Cloudflare or Vercel
- Cloudflare in the directory: has an open MCP server with tools listed