Cloudflare Says More Than 10 Million Developers Now Build on It
Cloudflare says more than 10 million developers are now building on its platform, up from 7.4 million in the previous quarter, as it pitches its network at software that is written partly by AI agents. The company announced the figure at an event in Singapore, where it also set out the products it wants developers to adopt next. It traces the growth to Workers, the serverless compute service it began building almost a decade ago, which runs code at the edge of its network instead of in a single region.
Cloudflare also says daily requests from AI agents on its network grew by more than 1,700% over a year. It states that more than half of internet traffic was not human in a release that repeats a claim it has made before, without giving the sample or the method behind the figure.
And the argument is that agents change what a cloud platform has to do. Rita Kozlov, vice president of product management at Cloudflare, said the software lifecycle is expanding from developers building for people to developers and agents building for people and agents.
Workers runs on isolates rather than virtual machines or containers, which Cloudflare says lets developers deploy quickly and spread load across its network. The company lists Workers AI, AI Gateway, Durable Objects, D1 and R2 among the products that developers pair with it when they build agent facing applications.
The network is the other half of the pitch. Cloudflare says it spans more than 340 cities in more than 130 countries, connects with 13,888 networks, and carries 590 Tbps of external capacity. Dane Knecht, the company's chief technology officer, said that scale means developers do not have to choose between speed, scale and security.
But the developer count is a company figure, published alongside a product push rather than an audit. Cloudflare gave no breakdown of how many of the 10 million are paying customers, and no figure for revenue per developer, so the number says more about reach than about spending.
Cloudflare also pointed to tsrs, a Rust port of the TypeScript compiler built with the TypeScript team rather than as a fork, through its work with VoidZero. Early benchmarks cited by the company put it at up to 8x faster than TypeScript 7.0 with about 70% less memory.
That compiler work matters to teams whose build times have grown with the size of a codebase, because a slow compile is paid on every change rather than once a release. A port built alongside the language team avoids the split that follows an independent rewrite, where two versions of one tool drift apart and developers have to pick a side.
So the growth story runs on two tracks. One is demand from agents that run continuously and need compute near users. The other is tooling, where a faster compiler shortens the gap between writing code and shipping it.
Cloudflare did not say when the compiler port becomes the default for its users, and it did not say how many of its 10 million developers have deployed an agent. Its traffic figure is offered as a share of the internet with no sample and no measurement window.
Cloudflare says more than 10 million developers now build on its platform, up from 7.4 million in the previous quarter.
Daily requests from AI agents on its network grew by more than 1,700% over a year, according to the company.
Its network spans more than 340 cities in more than 130 countries and carries 590 Tbps of external capacity.
Cloudflare cites tsrs, a Rust port of the TypeScript compiler, at up to 8x faster with about 70% less memory in early benchmarks.
The company gave no split of paying customers, no method for its traffic figure, and no timing for the compiler.
