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description: Bot protection features included in the Cloudflare Free plan.
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# Free

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To learn more about features and functionality, select a plan.

[Free](https://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/bots/plans/free/)[Pro](https://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/bots/plans/pro/)[Business](https://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/bots/plans/biz-and-ent/)[Bot Management for Enterprise](https://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/bots/plans/bm-subscription/)

|                           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Plan name**             | Bot Fight Mode                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| **Availability**          | All Free customers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| **Type of bots detected** | Simple bots from cloud hosting providers and headless browsers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| **Actions**               | Cloudflare issues a computationally expensive challenge                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| **Control**               | Applied to all traffic across a domain                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| **Additional features**   | [Block AI bots](https://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/block-ai-bots/), [AI Labyrinth](https://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/ai-labyrinth/), [Instruct AI bot traffic with robots.txt](https://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/managed-robots-txt/) |

## How do I get started?

To get started, review our [setup guides](https://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/bots/get-started/). If you have any questions, visit the [community ↗](https://community.cloudflare.com/) to engage with other Cloudflare users.

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