--- title: "New Cloudflare AI Gateways require | Agent MCP Directory" description: "New Cloudflare AI Gateways require authentication. Cloudflare now requires authentication on newly created AI Gateways, closing open gateways by default." canonical: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/news/2026-11-03-new-cloudflare-ai-gateways-require-authentication site: "Agent MCP Directory" last_updated: 2026-11-04 date: 2026-11-03 section: "News" --- # New Cloudflare AI Gateways require | Agent MCP Directory > New Cloudflare AI Gateways require authentication. Cloudflare now requires authentication on newly created AI Gateways, closing open gateways by default. Source: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/news/2026-11-03-new-cloudflare-ai-gateways-require-authentication Site: Agent MCP Directory Last reviewed: 2026-11-04 # 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](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-11-03-required-authentication/), 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](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/cloudflare-ai-gateway/): rubric and evidence - [Build a remote MCP server on Cloudflare or Vercel](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/guides/build-remote-mcp-server-cloudflare-vercel/) - [Cloudflare in the directory](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/directory/cloudflare-com/): has an open MCP server with tools listed Edition 4 November 2026 Method [How rows are verified](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/method/) Data [CSV and JSON](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/data/) Markdown [This page as markdown](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/news/2026-11-03-new-cloudflare-ai-gateways-require-authentication/index.md) ## Sources - [New Cloudflare AI Gateways require authentication](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-11-03-required-authentication/), read 4 November 2026 (primary source) Last reviewed 4 November 2026