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camada vs Cloudflare Bot Management
Cloudflare scores each request at its network, in front of your app, once your traffic is proxied through it. camada runs inside your app, where it also sees what your login and checkout code knows. Many teams can run both: camada keeps your CDN in front of your app as it is.
Cloudflare Bot Management facts come from its own docs and pricing pages, linked beside each row and listed at the end, as checked on 2026-10-26. Spot an error? Write to us and we will fix it.
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How camada and Cloudflare Bot Management differ
| Topic | camada | Cloudflare Bot Management |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | A package and a middleware in your app, plus one env var. No DNS change. | Traffic must reach your origin through Cloudflare's proxy, set per DNS record. [1] |
| When it decides | Every few minutes, over sessions, IPs and TLS fingerprints. Each request only checks a blocklist your app already holds. | On each request, with a bot score from 1 to 99 built from heuristics, machine learning and JavaScript detections. [2] |
| Availability | Every plan runs the AI analyst. Enforcement on Starter and above. | Bot Management for Enterprise is a paid add-on. Business and Enterprise customers without it get Super Bot Fight Mode; Free plans get Bot Fight Mode. [8] |
| TLS fingerprints | Used where the position sees them: @camada/hono on Cloudflare Workers, and the JA4 digest on Vercel. | JA3 and JA4 fingerprints, for Enterprise customers who have purchased Bot Management. [4] |
| Good bots and agents | Googlebot, bingbot and Applebot checked against published IP ranges; your allow-list for the rest. camada does not check agent signatures today. | A verified bots list, verified by IP validation or Web Bot Auth signatures; signed agents are now part of it. [5] |
| AI crawlers | An AI-crawler rule names the bot in its reason, so you can allow the ones you invited. | AI Crawl Control monitors and controls how AI services access your content, on all plans. [6] |
| App outcomes | track() reports failed logins, signups and declined payments from your code, tied to a hashed account id. | Sees requests and responses as they pass through its network. [1] |
| Challenges | Your own SDK serves a proof-of-work page to suspect browsers. API calls get a response header your app can act on. | Turnstile, which verifies visitors are human without a CAPTCHA. [7] |
| Price | Published: Free, Starter $59/mo, Growth $249/mo, Enterprise priced with you. | Bot Management is sold as an Enterprise add-on; Cloudflare does not publish its price. [3] |
Setup
- camada
- A package and a middleware in your app, plus one env var. No DNS change.
- Cloudflare Bot Management
- Traffic must reach your origin through Cloudflare's proxy, set per DNS record. [1]
When it decides
- camada
- Every few minutes, over sessions, IPs and TLS fingerprints. Each request only checks a blocklist your app already holds.
- Cloudflare Bot Management
- On each request, with a bot score from 1 to 99 built from heuristics, machine learning and JavaScript detections. [2]
Availability
- camada
- Every plan runs the AI analyst. Enforcement on Starter and above.
- Cloudflare Bot Management
- Bot Management for Enterprise is a paid add-on. Business and Enterprise customers without it get Super Bot Fight Mode; Free plans get Bot Fight Mode. [8]
TLS fingerprints
- camada
- Used where the position sees them: @camada/hono on Cloudflare Workers, and the JA4 digest on Vercel.
- Cloudflare Bot Management
- JA3 and JA4 fingerprints, for Enterprise customers who have purchased Bot Management. [4]
Good bots and agents
- camada
- Googlebot, bingbot and Applebot checked against published IP ranges; your allow-list for the rest. camada does not check agent signatures today.
- Cloudflare Bot Management
- A verified bots list, verified by IP validation or Web Bot Auth signatures; signed agents are now part of it. [5]
AI crawlers
- camada
- An AI-crawler rule names the bot in its reason, so you can allow the ones you invited.
- Cloudflare Bot Management
- AI Crawl Control monitors and controls how AI services access your content, on all plans. [6]
App outcomes
- camada
- track() reports failed logins, signups and declined payments from your code, tied to a hashed account id.
- Cloudflare Bot Management
- Sees requests and responses as they pass through its network. [1]
Challenges
- camada
- Your own SDK serves a proof-of-work page to suspect browsers. API calls get a response header your app can act on.
- Cloudflare Bot Management
- Turnstile, which verifies visitors are human without a CAPTCHA. [7]
Price
- camada
- Published: Free, Starter $59/mo, Growth $249/mo, Enterprise priced with you.
- Cloudflare Bot Management
- Bot Management is sold as an Enterprise add-on; Cloudflare does not publish its price. [3]
Choosing
Which one fits
Cloudflare Bot Management fits better when
- You want bad traffic stopped at the edge, before it reaches your origin at all.
- You already run Cloudflare Enterprise and want bot scores and JA3/JA4 in your WAF rules.
- You want signed AI agents verified for you.
camada fits better when
- You do not want to move DNS or put a proxy in front of your app.
- You want your app's own outcomes, such as failed logins per account, to count as evidence.
- You want a published price, and a written verdict for every client that gets blocked.
Running both
camada runs inside your app, so Cloudflare can stay in front of it. Cloudflare handles volume at the edge; camada judges the clients that still reach your app and blocks the ones it finds malicious.
Sources
Sources
- Cloudflare docs: Proxy status, checked 2026-10-26
- Cloudflare docs: Bot scores, checked 2026-10-26
- Cloudflare docs: Get started with Bot Management, checked 2026-10-26
- Cloudflare docs: JA3/JA4 fingerprint, checked 2026-10-26
- Cloudflare docs: Verified bots, checked 2026-10-26
- Cloudflare docs: AI Crawl Control, checked 2026-10-26
- Cloudflare docs: Turnstile, checked 2026-10-26
- Cloudflare docs: Super Bot Fight Mode plans, checked 2026-10-26
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