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Cloudflare’s 80,000-Customer Surge: Is AI Creating Its Next Big Growth Engine?

Cloudflare reported a strong second quarter in 2026 with total revenue reaching $696.1 million, representing a 36% increase year-over-year. The growth was driven by significant customer expansion, notably adding 80,000 paying customers in the quarter—a number matching the total customers at the company’s public debut in 2019—and increasing the count of customers spending more than $100,000 annually to 4,698, up 27% year-over-year. This cohort exhibited record net additions across every tier, contributing 73% of total revenue and resulting in a dollar-based net retention rate of 120%, demonstrating solid expansion within its existing large customer base. The company noted particularly strong growth in its Workers developer platform and agentic workloads, with developer accounts rising by nearly 2 million in the quarter, exceeding all of 2025’s additions.