Cloudflare Vectorize API
Provides a managed vector database accessible from Cloudflare Workers for storing and querying high-dimensional embedding vectors with approximate nearest-neighbor search.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
Worker binding pattern eliminates credential exposure. No access control within an index — all code with the binding can read/write all vectors. Namespace isolation requires separate indexes.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
Your agent already runs on Cloudflare Workers and needs a zero-latency vector store co-located with Workers AI embeddings.
Avoid When
You need hybrid keyword+vector search, complex metadata filtering, or are running outside the Cloudflare ecosystem.
Use Cases
- • Agent implements RAG by storing document embeddings in Vectorize and querying them with Workers AI-generated query embeddings before each LLM call
- • Agent performs semantic deduplication by inserting new item embeddings and querying for nearest neighbors above a similarity threshold
- • Agent builds a personalized recommendation system by storing user preference embeddings and retrieving top-K similar items at query time
- • Agent uses Vectorize as a long-term memory store, retrieving contextually relevant past interactions to include in prompts
- • Agent combines Vectorize vector search with D1 metadata filtering to implement hybrid search over a knowledge base
Not For
- • Full-text keyword search — Vectorize is purely vector-based with no BM25 or inverted index support
- • Storing very large vector collections (hundreds of millions of vectors) — designed for edge-scale workloads
- • Teams not using Cloudflare Workers as their compute layer
Interface
Authentication
Accessed via Vectorize binding (env.VECTORIZE) within Workers — no credentials needed in code. REST management API uses Cloudflare API tokens with Vectorize permissions.
Pricing
Pricing is based on 'dimensions' (vector size * count), not number of vectors. A 1536-dimension embedding index costs 1536x more per vector than a 64-dimension index.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ Index dimension count is fixed at creation time — agents cannot change embedding model without recreating the index and re-ingesting all vectors
- ⚠ Metadata filters are limited to equality checks on string/number/boolean values; no range queries or complex boolean logic on metadata
- ⚠ Maximum of 5 million vectors per index — agents building large knowledge bases need sharding strategies
- ⚠ Query results include a 'score' that is cosine similarity or euclidean distance depending on index configuration — easy to confuse the two if index config is forgotten
- ⚠ Vectorize is eventually consistent on inserts — vectors may not be immediately queryable after upsert, requiring agents to handle stale-read scenarios
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.