Thoughts on the new Cloudflare Bot Management pricing?

You're exactly right about the audit trail being critical. We implemented this logging strategy six months ago, and the drift in what constitutes a "verified human" is not hypothetical.

Our logs show a 15 point median shift in the bot score for requests flagged as verified human between two model recalibrations last quarter. Without that immutable record, we'd have no way to dispute the billing impact or even understand the change in our own traffic composition.

This turns a security feature into a financial data warehousing problem. The engineering cost to maintain that parallel pipeline and validate their scoring shifts is a real, recurring line item that must be added to their per-unit price for an accurate comparison.