{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cerebras-inference", "name": "Cerebras Inference", "vendor": "Cerebras Systems Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.cerebras.ai/inference", "kind": "http-api", "category": "inference", "summary": "Cerebras Inference serves language models on Cerebras wafer-scale processors through an OpenAI-compatible API. It supports streaming, structured outputs, tool calling and prompt caching, with shared and dedicated inference options.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebras-inference", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebras-inference.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebras-inference.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cerebras-inference.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Cerebras/cerebras-cloud-sdk-python", "license": "Proprietary hosted service. The official Python SDK is Apache-2.0; served models retain their own licences.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.cerebras.ai/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cerebras-cloud-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@cerebras/cerebras_cloud_sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API keys from the Cloud Console. Paid accounts scope keys to projects; trial accounts do not have projects. Keys do not expire and can be rotated by creating a replacement and deleting the old key.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Pay per token. GPT OSS 120B is $0.35 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens. New accounts get $5 for 30 days only after adding a verified payment method. Dedicated capacity is priced by agreement.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 payment route found in the reviewed inference and billing documentation on 19 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 170, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-19" }, "docsUrl": "https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/api-reference/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "official", "http-api", "inference", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "paid" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 233, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1171, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 20, "reliability": 70, "schema": 93, "security": 70, "transparency": 58 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-19" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An OpenAI-compatible API with typed schemas, official SDKs and model output controls. Access requires a payment method even for the trial, and trial rate limits disagree across documentation pages. Shared-model availability and dedicated-model availability differ.", "bestFor": "Cerebras Inference serves language models on Cerebras wafer-scale processors through an OpenAI-compatible API.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1, Markdown docs, and official Python and TypeScript SDKs", "Tool calling, structured outputs, streaming and prompt caching on supported models", "Documented project controls, usage logs and numeric request and token limits" ], "weaknesses": [ "Trial access requires a verified payment method and ends after $5 or 30 days", "The GPT OSS model page and central rate-limit page disagree on trial request limits", "Cloud terms returned an empty page to the reader; no public shared-inference SLA was established" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set CEREBRAS_API_KEY and use https://api.cerebras.ai/v1 with an OpenAI-compatible client.", "Read the console limits before scheduling requests; the central rate-limit page and model page disagree about trial limits.", "Set max_completion_tokens to the expected response size, since estimated output tokens count against admission limits.", "Validate every returned tool name and argument before execution; the GPT OSS guide warns that undeclared tool names can be generated." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 20, "reliability": 70, "schema": 93, "security": 70, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 71 }, "connect": { "http": "curl 'https://api.cerebras.ai/v1/chat/completions' -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CEREBRAS_API_KEY\" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{\"model\": \"gpt-oss-120b\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Say hello.\"}], \"max_tokens\": 128}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cerebras-inference" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "GPT OSS 120B input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.35, "note": "Shared/serverless standard rate, per million tokens, checked 19 October 2026" }, { "item": "GPT OSS 120B output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.75, "note": "Shared/serverless standard rate, per million tokens, checked 19 October 2026" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cerebras Systems Inc.", "domain": "cerebras.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cloud.cerebras.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.cerebras.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.cerebras.ai", "changelog": "https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/support/change-log", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-19", "notes": [ "Legal identity comes from the vendor policy pages. Domain registration was not checked.", "The SDK repository is not the source for the hosted inference service.", "Cloud terms at cloud.cerebras.ai/terms returned no readable document; privacy identifies Cerebras Systems Inc.", "The well-known security.txt returned 404. The trust centre lists SOC 2 Type II." ], "score": 71 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebras-inference.json", "live": { "slug": "cerebras-inference", "probe": { "target": "https://api.cerebras.ai/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-19T09:34:24.387029889Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 131, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 140, "p95ms24h": 194, "samples24h": 20, "samples30d": 20, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 20, "ok": 20 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cerebras.ai", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T09:26:58.948841855Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T09:34:24.387029889Z" } }, "answer": "Cerebras Inference scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare AI Gateway's 66.8 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare AI Gateway leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "name": "Cloudflare AI Gateway", "vendor": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.cloudflare.com", "kind": "router", "category": "inference", "summary": "AI Gateway is Cloudflare's proxy and router for model providers. Agents call OpenAI-style, Anthropic-style or native endpoints on the Cloudflare API, with logging, caching, rate and spend limits, retries, fallbacks and one prepaid credit balance.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.json", "repo": "https://github.com/cloudflare/ai", "license": "Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement and its service-specific terms. Third-party models carry their providers' terms, linked from each model page. `ai-gateway-provider` is MIT and Cloudflare's OpenAPI repository is BSD-3-Clause", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "ai-gateway-provider" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "cloudflare" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cloudflare" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A Cloudflare API token as a Bearer header, created by a person in the dashboard. The `/ai/*` inference routes need Workers AI Read, and the `/ai-gateway/*` management routes need AI Gateway Read or Edit. Provider-native endpoints on `gateway.ai.cloudflare.com` take the token in `cf-aig-authorization`. Tokens can carry an expiry and an IP address filter and cannot be limited to one gateway. Access is self-serve, with no review or sales step.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free on all plans for analytics, caching and rate limiting, with a Cloudflare account. Third-party models are paid from prepaid Unified Billing credits at provider prices plus a 5 per cent fee on each credit purchase, or with the caller's own provider keys at no Cloudflare charge. Logs for new customers follow Workers Logs pricing, 200,000 events a day free. An account on the Free plan starts without a contract (https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/reference/pricing/, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "5% fee", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "Machine Payments, in beta since 30 September 2026, takes x402 payment on `POST /ai/run` for four open models when the request carries `Payment-Method: x402`. It needs a Cloudflare API token, a United States account and a card on file. The OpenAI-style and Anthropic-style routes are not covered. We did not call it (https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/features/machine-payments/, checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run", "priceUsd": null, "network": "" } ] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 250648, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudflare/api-schemas/main/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.router", "obs.gateway", "guard.moderation", "guard.pii" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "router", "free-tier", "usage-based", "x402", "openapi", "llms-txt", "openai-compatible", "typescript", "python", "go", "status-page", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.8, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 299, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1171, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 52, "reliability": 66, "schema": 75, "security": 75, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "6 October 2026. Rejected-credential responses on `POST /ai/run` changed status (ElevenLabs 403, Vertex 500 and other providers' 402 became 401 with code 2009, and Unified Billing rejections became 503) on the day of the changelog entry, with no advance notice found. Three points (https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/changelog/)." ], "verdict": "The gateway layer is free, per-model prices are public with no markup, and logs, spend limits and fallbacks are set per gateway. API tokens cannot be limited to one gateway, the service terms take third-party models outside Cloudflare's DPA, no SLA names the product, and error codes changed on 6 October 2026 with same-day notice.", "bestFor": "Teams that already hold a Cloudflare account and want one token, one bill, logs, budgets and fallbacks in front of several model providers, or that want to keep their own provider keys behind a proxy with spend limits.", "strengths": [ "Core gateway functions (analytics, caching, rate limiting) are free on all plans, and provider prices pass through with no markup", "One Cloudflare API token reaches 241 catalogue models through OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, Anthropic Messages or the native `/ai/run` route", "Spend limits block requests with a 429 once a budget is reached, scoped by model, provider or request metadata, with up to 20 rules a gateway", "Logging is switched per gateway and per request, and `cf-aig-collect-log-payload: false` keeps token and cost metadata without storing prompts", "x402 payment (Machine Payments, beta since 30 September 2026) works on `POST /ai/run` for four open models" ], "weaknesses": [ "API tokens are account-scoped. Any token with AI Gateway Run can send requests through every gateway in the account and spend its stored provider keys", "The service-specific terms say the DPA and Information Security Exhibit do not apply to third-party models reached through AI Gateway", "No SLA naming AI Gateway was found. The Enterprise SLA lists service-specific SLAs for R2, Queues and Workers only", "On 6 October 2026 rejected-credential responses on `/ai/run` changed to 401 with code 2009, or 503 under Unified Billing, announced the same day", "Unified Billing traffic is capped at 200 requests per 60 seconds per gateway, and a 5 per cent fee applies to credit purchases", "Section 2.2(e) of the Self-Serve Subscription Agreement bars automated agents that generate automated requests into the Services, which matters before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the REST API at `api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/v1` with a token holding Workers AI Read. A token with only an AI Gateway permission returns 401 with code 10000", "Send `cf-aig-gateway-id` on every Workers AI (`@cf/`) call and on dynamic routes. Without it a dynamic route resolves against the default gateway and returns 404", "Set `cf-aig-collect-log: false` or `cf-aig-collect-log-payload: false` on sensitive requests. Logging of prompts and responses is on by default", "Treat a 429 as a rate limit or a spent budget and a 401 with code 2009 as a rejected provider key. Do not retry a 2009", "Set `byok_only` on the gateway or send `cf-aig-no-wholesale: true` to stop a request without a provider key falling through to paid Unified Billing credits" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 52, "reliability": 66, "schema": 75, "security": 75, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST \"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID/ai/v1/chat/completions\" \\\n --header \"Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN\" \\\n --header \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n --data '{\n \"model\": \"openai/gpt-4.1-mini\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"What is Cloudflare?\"}]\n }'", "x402": "curl -iX POST \"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID/ai/run\" \\\n --header \"Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN\" \\\n --header \"Payment-Method: x402\" \\\n --header \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n --data '{\"model\":\"z-ai/glm-4.7-flash\",\"input\":{\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"What is Cloudflare?\"}]}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cloudflare-ai-gateway" }, "sameCompany": [ "cloudflare-workers-ai", "cloudflare-sandbox-sdk", "cloudflare-web-search", "cloudflare-ai-search", "cloudflare-cli", "cloudflare-mcp", "cloudflare-email-service", "cloudflare-r2", "cloudflare-clef" ], "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Unified Billing credit purchase fee", "unit": "pct", "usd": 5, "note": "a $100 purchase is charged $105" }, { "item": "Logpush requests past 10 million a month", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.00005, "note": "listed as $0.05 per million, Workers Paid only" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "domain": "cloudflare.com", "domainRegistered": "2009-02-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/", "statusPage": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "changelog": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/changelog/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "Terms are the Self-Serve Subscription Agreement, last updated 12 September 2025, which names Cloudflare, Inc. at 101 Townsend St, San Francisco.", "The service-specific terms (https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-developer-platform/), last updated 28 September 2026, have a section for Workers AI and AI Gateway that supplements the agreement.", "The privacy policy is effective from 4 November 2025. The customer DPA is version 6.4, effective 3 April 2026.", "www.cloudflare.com/.well-known/security.txt, read on 9 October 2026, names HackerOne and a disclosure policy and has no Expires field. It is recorded as valid, although RFC 9116 asks for that field.", "The inference endpoints are on api.cloudflare.com and gateway.ai.cloudflare.com.", "The status page lists AI Gateway as its own component, operational on 9 October 2026.", "RDAP for cloudflare.com gives a registration date of 2009-02-17." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.json", "live": { "slug": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "probe": { "target": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-19T09:34:25.106213505Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 33, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 41, "p95ms24h": 100, "samples24h": 256, "samples30d": 2439, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 102, "ok": 102 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "indicator": "major", "summary": "Partial System Outage", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T09:27:01.294374584Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "cloudflare/ai", "version": "ai-gateway-provider@4.0.1", "released": "2026-09-11", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:41:16.779050503Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "ai-gateway-provider", "version": "4.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:41:14.386442296Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "cloudflare", "version": "7.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:41:15.14117995Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cloudflare", "version": "5.9.0", "released": "2026-10-03", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:41:16.586148076Z" } ], "githubStars": 1195, "npmWeekly": 157856, "pypiWeekly": 729273, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cloudflare.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T15:53:12.358781346Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T14:24:30.914328049Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cloudflare.com", "registered": "2009-02-17", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/cloudflare.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:36:47.922893773Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:26:44.290209238Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-16T22:20:17.172799601Z", "fingerprint": "2c3869311be8" }, { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/reference/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:26:46.359211415Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-16T22:20:19.237403093Z", "fingerprint": "55b326e2eb63" }, { "url": "https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:42:10.032577309Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e562d2a2da97" }, { "url": "https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:42:12.237668038Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d26dd2a74bde" } ], "github": { "repo": "cloudflare/ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T06:01:37.271123162Z", "stars": 1195, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-14T13:10:10Z", "openIssues": 63, "openPRs": 36, "issuesOpened90d": 22, "issuesClosed90d": 11, "prsMerged90d": 9, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 48, "failure": 1, "other": 1, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-09-11T15:54:20Z" }, "advisories": [ { "ghsa": "GHSA-v85r-hgf6-q875", "severity": "medium", "published": "2025-11-04T18:27:48Z" } ], "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 15, "medianDays": 0 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T09:34:25.106213505Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "Model router", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cerebras Systems Inc.", "b": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.cerebras.ai/v1", "b": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "payer tooling only", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary hosted service. The official Python SDK is Apache-2.0; served models retain their own licences.", "b": "Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement and its service-specific terms. 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Cloudflare AI Gateway leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cerebras Inference or Cloudflare AI Gateway?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Cerebras Inference and Cloudflare AI Gateway need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Cerebras Inference has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cerebras.ai/v1 and Cloudflare AI Gateway at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai.", "question": "Can an agent call Cerebras Inference and Cloudflare AI Gateway without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 75", "Agent ergonomics, 85 against 73" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Cloudflare AI Gateway loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Cerebras Inference serves language models on Cerebras wafer-scale processors through an OpenAI-compatible API.", "slug": "cerebras-inference", "watchFor": "Trial access requires a verified payment method and ends after $5 or 30 days" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 70", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 65", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 58" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams that already hold a Cloudflare account and want one token, one bill, logs, budgets and fallbacks in front of several model providers, or that want to keep their own provider keys behind a proxy with spend limits.", "slug": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "watchFor": "API tokens are account-scoped. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-sambanova" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-together-inference.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Together AI Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-together-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Antseed vs Cloudflare AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 4, "cerebras-inference": 70, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 66, "edge": "cerebras-inference", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 18, "cerebras-inference": 93, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "cerebras-inference", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 12, "cerebras-inference": 85, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 73, "edge": "cerebras-inference", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "cerebras-inference": 70, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 32, "cerebras-inference": 20, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 52, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 10, "cerebras-inference": 65, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 15, "cerebras-inference": 58, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 73, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Cerebras Inference scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare AI Gateway's 66.8 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare AI Gateway leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do llm inference.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "cerebras-inference": "An OpenAI-compatible API with typed schemas, official SDKs and model output controls. Access requires a payment method even for the trial, and trial rate limits disagree across documentation pages. Shared-model availability and dedicated-model availability differ.", "cloudflare-ai-gateway": "The gateway layer is free, per-model prices are public with no markup, and logs, spend limits and fallbacks are set per gateway. API tokens cannot be limited to one gateway, the service terms take third-party models outside Cloudflare's DPA, no SLA names the product, and error codes changed on 6 October 2026 with same-day notice." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebras-inference-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebras-inference-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebras-inference-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebras-inference-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.min.md" }, "markdown": "Cerebras Inference scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare AI Gateway's 66.8 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare AI Gateway leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Cerebras Inference: grade B, 68.4/100, rank #233 of 1171. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebras-inference.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cerebras-inference.json\n- Cloudflare AI Gateway: grade B, 66.8/100, rank #299 of 1171. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 407 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cerebras Inference (B)\n\nGood for: Cerebras Inference serves language models on Cerebras wafer-scale processors through an OpenAI-compatible API.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 75\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 73\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Cloudflare AI Gateway loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Trial access requires a verified payment method and ends after $5 or 30 days\n\n### Cloudflare AI Gateway (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that already hold a Cloudflare account and want one token, one bill, logs, budgets and fallbacks in front of several model providers, or that want to keep their own provider keys behind a proxy with spend limits.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 70\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 65\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 58\n\nWatch for: API tokens are account-scoped. Any token with AI Gateway Run can send requests through every gateway in the account and spend its stored provider keys\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cerebras Inference | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 66 | Cerebras Inference +4 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 93 | 75 | Cerebras Inference +18 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 73 | Cerebras Inference +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 75 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 52 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +32 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 75 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 73 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.4 · B** | **66.8 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cerebras Inference | Cloudflare AI Gateway |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Model router |\n| Vendor | Cerebras Systems Inc. | Cloudflare, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cerebras.ai/v1` | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | payer tooling only |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service. The official Python SDK is Apache-2.0; served models retain their own licences. | Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement and its service-specific terms. Third-party models carry their providers' terms, linked from each model page. `ai-gateway-provider` is MIT and Cloudflare's OpenAPI repository is BSD-3-Clause |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-09-12 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-08-27 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Popularity | 170 stars | 251k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cerebras Inference.** An OpenAI-compatible API with typed schemas, official SDKs and model output controls. Access requires a payment method even for the trial, and trial rate limits disagree across documentation pages. Shared-model availability and dedicated-model availability differ.\n\n**Cloudflare AI Gateway.** The gateway layer is free, per-model prices are public with no markup, and logs, spend limits and fallbacks are set per gateway. API tokens cannot be limited to one gateway, the service terms take third-party models outside Cloudflare's DPA, no SLA names the product, and error codes changed on 6 October 2026 with same-day notice.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cerebras Inference\n\n1. Set CEREBRAS_API_KEY and use https://api.cerebras.ai/v1 with an OpenAI-compatible client.\n2. Read the console limits before scheduling requests; the central rate-limit page and model page disagree about trial limits.\n3. Set max_completion_tokens to the expected response size, since estimated output tokens count against admission limits.\n4. Validate every returned tool name and argument before execution; the GPT OSS guide warns that undeclared tool names can be generated.\n\n### Cloudflare AI Gateway\n\n1. Use the REST API at `api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/v1` with a token holding Workers AI Read. A token with only an AI Gateway permission returns 401 with code 10000\n2. Send `cf-aig-gateway-id` on every Workers AI (`@cf/`) call and on dynamic routes. Without it a dynamic route resolves against the default gateway and returns 404\n3. Set `cf-aig-collect-log: false` or `cf-aig-collect-log-payload: false` on sensitive requests. Logging of prompts and responses is on by default\n4. Treat a 429 as a rate limit or a spent budget and a 401 with code 2009 as a rejected provider key. Do not retry a 2009\n5. Set `byok_only` on the gateway or send `cf-aig-no-wholesale: true` to stop a request without a provider key falling through to paid Unified Billing credits\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cerebras Inference or Cloudflare AI Gateway?\n\nCerebras Inference scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare AI Gateway's 66.8 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare AI Gateway leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Cerebras Inference and Cloudflare AI Gateway need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cerebras Inference and Cloudflare AI Gateway without installing anything?\n\nYes. Cerebras Inference has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cerebras.ai/v1 and Cloudflare AI Gateway at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebras-inference-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebras-inference-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cerebras-inference\", \"b\": \"cloudflare-ai-gateway\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare cerebras-inference cloudflare-ai-gateway`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cerebras-inference.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Cerebras Inference or Cloudflare AI Gateway\n\n- [Claude API vs Cerebras Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-cerebras-inference.md)\n- [Claude API vs Cloudflare AI Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.md)\n- [Antseed vs Cerebras Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cerebras-inference.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Cerebras Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-cerebras-inference.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Cloudflare AI Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.md)\n- [Cerebras Inference vs Cloudflare Workers 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