What value does Cloudflare provide over using the linked providers directly...?

This was in wrangler for a really long time.

SearXNG works pretty well for my personal agents. FYI it's a free search gateway you can host locally, and there are many public instances. It's like the old days when many different people provided the same free service for all.

Explore Cloudflare's services without the web page bloat:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/llms.txt

As a textmode command line and text-only browser user this textfile is faster for me to use that the usual Silicon Valley style web pages

Not quite as good as sitemap-0.xml but it's nice to have this in addition

Nice that they offer Linkup, we've been very happy with them as an EU-based search provider that guarantees GDPR-compliance and zero data retention, easy to integrate with Agents!

why are they selling search as a paid feature...

Very cool.

This has got to be a serious antitrust violation. First Cloudflare bans all the other bots, then it allows its liaised bots.