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          "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",
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          "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"
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          "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",
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          "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",
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        "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  }'",
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        "privacy": "https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/",
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          "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."
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      "category": "inference",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/cloudflare/api-schemas",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement. Each hosted model carries its own open-weight licence, linked from its model page. The `cloudflare` SDKs are Apache-2.0, `workers-ai-provider` is MIT and the OpenAPI repository is BSD-3-Clause",
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      "authNotes": "A Cloudflare API token as a Bearer header, created by a person in the dashboard, with the Workers AI Read or Workers AI Edit permission on an account. Tokens can carry an expiry and an IP address filter. Inside a Worker the `AI` binding needs no token. The API reference also accepts the older global API key with an account email. Later tokens can be created through the API with an existing token.",
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      "docsUrl": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/",
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      "llmsTxt": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/llms.txt",
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      "lastRelease": "2026-10-01",
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        "assessment": {
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        "negative": -3,
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          "28 July 2026. Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code and GLM-5.2 began returning 403 (code 5035) on the Workers Free plan on the day of the notice, with no advance warning found. Three points (https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-28-models-require-workers-paid/)."
        ],
        "verdict": "Per-model prices, rate limits and JSON Schemas are public, 10,000 neurons a day are free, and x402 payment is in beta on `/ai/run` for four models. No SLA was found, three models moved to paid-only access on 28 July 2026 with no notice, and several docs pages still use a model retired in May.",
        "bestFor": "Agents that already run on Cloudflare Workers, or that want open-weight chat, embedding, reranking, speech and image models behind one token with a free daily allowance.",
        "strengths": [
          "Per-model token prices, cached-input prices and neuron rates are published without a login, with 10,000 neurons a day free on the Workers Free plan",
          "x402 payment (Machine Payments, beta since 30 September 2026) works on `POST /ai/run` for four open models",
          "Rate limits are published per task type, and a 429 separates a spent free allocation (3036) from capacity (3040)",
          "API tokens are limited to Workers AI permissions on an account, with optional expiry and IP address filtering",
          "DeepSeek V4 and GLM-5.3 run with a 1,048,576-token context, with prefix caching and discounted cached input"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No SLA for Workers AI was found in the docs or the agreements read",
          "Three models moved to paid-only access on 28 July 2026, the day of the notice, and Free plan calls to them return 403",
          "Eighteen models were retired on 30 May 2026 with 22 days' notice, and no minimum notice period is published",
          "The REST quick start, the OpenAI-compatibility page and the JSON Mode model list still name models on the 30 May 2026 retirement list",
          "The x402 route still needs a Cloudflare API token, a United States account and a card on file"
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        "agentNotes": [
          "Check the model page before calling. Seven models need Workers Paid or AI Gateway credits and return 403 with code 5035 on the Free plan",
          "Read the internal code on a 429. 3036 means the day's 10,000 free neurons are spent until 00:00 UTC, 3040 means capacity, so retry later",
          "Set `options.rejectIfBusy` to fail fast, or add `?queueRequest=true` for the batch route when the answer can wait",
          "Send the same `x-session-affinity` value on every turn of a session to reach the prefix cache and the cached-input price",
          "Keep paid frontier models under 20 requests a minute per model, or 50 with prepaid AI Gateway credits"
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          "schema": 80,
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID/ai/run/@cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it \\\n  -X POST \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_AUTH_TOKEN\" \\\n  -d '{ \"messages\": [{ \"role\": \"system\", \"content\": \"You are a friendly assistant\" }, { \"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Why is pizza so good\" }]}'",
        "x402": "curl -iX POST \"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$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?\"}]}}'"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-workers-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-workers-ai.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 136 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\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\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### Cloudflare Workers AI (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that already run on Cloudflare Workers, or that want open-weight chat, embedding, reranking, speech and image models behind one token with a free daily allowance.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 75\n\nWatch for: No SLA for Workers AI was found in the docs or the agreements read\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Cloudflare Workers AI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 66 | even |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 80 | Cloudflare Workers AI +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 75 | Cloudflare Workers AI +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 77 | Cloudflare Workers AI +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 52 | 52 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 72 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 76 | Cloudflare Workers AI +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.8 · B** | **68.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Cloudflare Workers AI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model router | Model API |\n| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Cloudflare, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | payer tooling only | payer tooling only |\n| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement. Each hosted model carries its own open-weight licence, linked from its model page. The `cloudflare` SDKs are Apache-2.0, `workers-ai-provider` is MIT and the OpenAPI repository is BSD-3-Clause |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | 2025-09-12 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 251k npm/wk | 380k npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Cloudflare Workers AI.** Per-model prices, rate limits and JSON Schemas are public, 10,000 neurons a day are free, and x402 payment is in beta on `/ai/run` for four models. No SLA was found, three models moved to paid-only access on 28 July 2026 with no notice, and several docs pages still use a model retired in May.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Cloudflare Workers AI\n\n1. Check the model page before calling. Seven models need Workers Paid or AI Gateway credits and return 403 with code 5035 on the Free plan\n2. Read the internal code on a 429. 3036 means the day's 10,000 free neurons are spent until 00:00 UTC, 3040 means capacity, so retry later\n3. Set `options.rejectIfBusy` to fail fast, or add `?queueRequest=true` for the batch route when the answer can wait\n4. Send the same `x-session-affinity` value on every turn of a session to reach the prefix cache and the cached-input price\n5. Keep paid frontier models under 20 requests a minute per model, or 50 with prepaid AI Gateway credits\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare AI Gateway or Cloudflare Workers AI?\n\nCloudflare Workers AI scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare AI Gateway's 66.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Cloudflare AI Gateway and Cloudflare Workers AI need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudflare AI Gateway and Cloudflare Workers AI without installing anything?\n\nYes. Cloudflare AI Gateway has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai and Cloudflare Workers AI 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/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudflare-ai-gateway\", \"b\": \"cloudflare-workers-ai\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare cloudflare-ai-gateway cloudflare-workers-ai`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-workers-ai.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Cloudflare AI Gateway or Cloudflare Workers AI\n\n- [Claude API vs Cloudflare AI Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.md)\n- [Claude API vs Cloudflare Workers AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai.md)\n- [Antseed vs Cloudflare Workers AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Cloudflare AI Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Cloudflare Workers AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Cohere Chat API (Command models)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-cohere-chat.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs DeepInfra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-deepinfra.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs DeepSeek API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-deepseek-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-gemini-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs GroqCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-groq.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Mistral AI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-mistral-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Novita AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-novita-ai.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs OpenAI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-openai-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Prism Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-prism-inference.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs SambaCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-sambanova.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs SiliconFlow](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-siliconflow.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs Cohere Chat API (Command models)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-cohere-chat.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs DeepInfra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-deepinfra.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs DeepSeek API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-deepseek-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-gemini-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs GroqCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-groq.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs Mistral AI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-mistral-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs Novita AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-novita-ai.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs OpenAI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-openai-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs Prism Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-prism-inference.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs SambaCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-sambanova.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs SiliconFlow](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-siliconflow.md)\n- [Antseed vs Cloudflare AI Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.md)\n",
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