{ "data": { "a": { "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": 295, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 8, "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": "2026-10-18T00:30:43.453535731Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 40, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 40, "p95ms24h": 100, "samples24h": 253, "samples30d": 2087, "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": 6, "ok": 6 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "indicator": "major", "summary": "Partial System Outage", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T00:31:02.581894156Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "cloudflare/ai", "version": "ai-gateway-provider@4.0.1", "released": "2026-09-11", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:40:45.487128385Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "ai-gateway-provider", "version": "4.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:40:43.076071187Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "cloudflare", "version": "7.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:40:43.8433469Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cloudflare", "version": "5.9.0", "released": "2026-10-03", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:40:45.2844751Z" } ], "githubStars": 1194, "npmWeekly": 260771, "pypiWeekly": 650562, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cloudflare.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:52:10.791371758Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T14:21:41.21434346Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cloudflare.com", "registered": "2009-02-17", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/cloudflare.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:20:21.49951473Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:59:16.470706488Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-16T22:20:17.172799601Z", "fingerprint": "2c3869311be8" }, { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/reference/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:59:18.519581441Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-16T22:20:19.237403093Z", "fingerprint": "55b326e2eb63" }, { "url": "https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:30.103130439Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e562d2a2da97" }, { "url": "https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:32.342060767Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d26dd2a74bde" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:30:43.453535731Z" } }, "answer": "Cloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Glimpse's 48.6 (D), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "elorian-glimpse", "name": "Glimpse", "vendor": "Elorian", "vendorUrl": "https://elorian.ai/models.html", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Glimpse is Elorian's visual reasoning model, released as a research preview on 16 October 2026. It takes text, images and video and returns text, through Elorian's own API and chat app and through OpenRouter.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/elorian-glimpse.json", "license": "Closed model and service under the Elorian AI, Inc. terms of service (California law). Weights not released.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "On the graded route, an OpenRouter bearer key, created after a browser sign-up and drawing on prepaid credit. Elorian's own API takes bearer keys beginning `elor_sk_`, created in its console after a Google or email sign-in with a Cloudflare Turnstile check. No scopes were found on either.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$0.60 per million input tokens, $0.06 cached and $3.00 per million output tokens on OpenRouter through Together, matching Elorian's published rates (checked 2026-10-17). OpenRouter's top-up fee applies. Elorian says Glimpse can be tried free on its own platform, and volume access is through sales.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in OpenRouter's docs index or API reference, Elorian's launch post or Elorian's terms, which describe prepaid credits or a subscription (checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/elorian/glimpse", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "model", "closed-source", "usage-priced", "prepaid", "multimodal", "video", "preview", "openai-compatible", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 48.6, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 915, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 23, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 51, "payments": 25, "reliability": 38, "schema": 60, "security": 56, "transparency": 36 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Glimpse reads images and video at $0.60 input and $3.00 output per million tokens, and OpenRouter serves it with tools, structured output and a 262,144-token context. It is a research preview with no public Elorian docs, model card or status page, and Elorian's terms allow training on submitted content unless a paid user opts out.", "bestFor": "Visual question answering, video captioning and counting over images and video at a low per-token price, where a research preview reached through OpenRouter is acceptable.", "strengths": [ "Takes text, images and video and returns text, with a 262,144-token context and up to 256,000 output tokens on OpenRouter", "$0.60 per million input tokens, $0.06 cached and $3.00 per million output tokens, published without a login", "On OpenRouter it accepts `tools`, `tool_choice`, `response_format`, `structured_outputs` and `reasoning` through the OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint", "OpenRouter documents Retry-After on 429 and 503, video input as `video_url` and per-key credit limits", "Elorian's own benchmark table puts it above GPT-6 Astra on four of twelve visual evaluations, at a fraction of the price. Vendor-reported" ], "weaknesses": [ "Labelled a research preview, with no public API docs, model card, changelog or deprecation policy from Elorian", "One provider on OpenRouter (Together, on a dedicated deployment), so there is no fallback if that endpoint goes down", "Elorian's terms licence submitted content for training. Paid users opt out by email, and free use trains by default", "Elorian's terms forbid using the Service through any agent or automated software other than Elorian's own", "The tools the launch post says Glimpse is trained to use (code, image transforms, video watching, subagents) aren't exposed on OpenRouter" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call it through OpenRouter as `elorian/glimpse` at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions. Elorian's own API docs sit behind a console sign-in", "Send video as a `video_url` content part, as a public URL or a base64 data URL. Batch requests are not available for this model", "Set `max_tokens` yourself. The endpoint allows up to 256,000 output tokens, and visual reasoning spends many of them", "Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503. With a single provider, a 503 means the Together deployment is unavailable, not that another host can take over", "Treat counts and timestamps as unverified. Elorian's terms say outputs need independent human review before anyone relies on them" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 48.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 51, "payments": 25, "reliability": 38, "schema": 60, "security": 56, "transparency": 31 }, "provenanceScore": 40 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"elorian/glimpse\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"How many open pliers are in this photo?\"},{\"type\":\"image_url\",\"image_url\":{\"url\":\"https://example.com/photo.jpg\"}}]}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/elorian-glimpse" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Glimpse input on OpenRouter", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.6 }, { "item": "Glimpse cached input on OpenRouter", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.06 }, { "item": "Glimpse output on OpenRouter", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 3, "note": "Reasoning tokens are output." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Elorian AI, Inc.", "domain": "elorian.ai", "domainRegistered": "2025-12-03", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://platform.elorian.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://elorian.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The terms, privacy policy and support page name Elorian AI, Inc., 654 High Street, Floor 2, Palo Alto, California, with EDPO as EU and UK representative.", "The graded endpoint is OpenRouter's (openrouter.ai), served by Together, so it is not on Elorian's domain. Elorian's own API is api.elorian.ai.", "RDAP gives elorian.ai a registration date of 3 December 2025.", "elorian.ai/.well-known/security.txt and api.elorian.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404, and platform.elorian.ai's returned 403. elorian.ai and api.elorian.ai have no robots.txt (404), and platform.elorian.ai's robots.txt answers with an S3 AccessDenied error, read as no robots file.", "platform.elorian.ai/terms renders in the browser from the platform's public script, and the terms text was read from that script. The same script carries the signed-in console's API docs, which were not used as evidence because Elorian serves them only after sign-in.", "No status page or changelog found. status.elorian.ai couldn't be reached from our shell." ], "score": 40 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse.json", "live": { "slug": "elorian-glimpse", "probe": { "target": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:30:48.43024472Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 220, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 156, "p95ms24h": 248, "samples24h": 27, "samples30d": 27, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 6, "ok": 6 } ] }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://elorian.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:02:47.801469387Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "950571977bed" }, { "url": "https://platform.elorian.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:07:43.206214088Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:30:48.43024472Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model router", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "b": "Elorian", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai", "b": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "payer tooling only", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "Closed model and service under the Elorian AI, Inc. terms of service (California law). Weights not released.", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-06", "b": "2026-10-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-09-12", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "251k npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (4)", "b": "2.5/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Cloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Glimpse's 48.6 (D), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare AI Gateway or Glimpse?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Cloudflare AI Gateway and Glimpse need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Cloudflare AI Gateway has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai and Glimpse at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Cloudflare AI Gateway and Glimpse without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 66 against 38", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 60", "Agent ergonomics, 73 against 66", "Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 56", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 25", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 51", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 36" ], "also": [ "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5" ], "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. Any token with AI Gateway Run can send requests through every gateway in the account and spend its stored provider keys" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Cloudflare AI Gateway loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Visual question answering, video captioning and counting over images and video at a low per-token price, where a research preview reached through OpenRouter is acceptable.", "slug": "elorian-glimpse", "watchFor": "Labelled a research preview, with no public API docs, model card, changelog or deprecation policy from Elorian" } ], "job": { "capability": "inference.llm", "name": "LLM inference" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Claude API vs Cloudflare AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-elorian-glimpse.json", "title": "Claude API vs Glimpse", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-elorian-glimpse" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-elorian-glimpse.json", "title": "Antseed vs Glimpse", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-elorian-glimpse" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.json", "title": "BlockRun.AI vs Cloudflare AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-elorian-glimpse.json", "title": "BlockRun.AI vs Glimpse", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-elorian-glimpse" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Cloudflare Workers AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-groq.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs GroqCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-groq" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-jais-3.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Jais 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-jais-3" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-meta-model-api.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Meta Model API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-meta-model-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-mistral-api.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Mistral AI API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-mistral-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-muse-spark-open.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Muse Spark Open", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-muse-spark-open" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-novita-ai.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Novita AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-novita-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-openai-api.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs OpenAI API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-openai-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-prism-inference.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Prism Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-prism-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-sambanova.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs SambaCloud", "url": "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-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/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-elorian-glimpse.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Glimpse", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-elorian-glimpse" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-elorian-glimpse.json", "title": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs Glimpse", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-elorian-glimpse" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-elorian-glimpse.json", "title": "DeepInfra vs Glimpse", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-elorian-glimpse" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-elorian-glimpse.json", "title": "DeepSeek API vs Glimpse", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-elorian-glimpse" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-gemini-api.json", "title": "Glimpse vs Gemini Developer API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-gemini-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-groq.json", "title": "Glimpse vs GroqCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-groq" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-jais-3.json", "title": "Glimpse vs Jais 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-jais-3" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-meta-model-api.json", "title": "Glimpse vs Meta Model API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-meta-model-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-mistral-api.json", "title": "Glimpse vs Mistral AI API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-mistral-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-muse-spark-open.json", "title": "Glimpse vs Muse Spark Open", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-muse-spark-open" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json", "title": "Glimpse vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-novita-ai.json", "title": "Glimpse vs Novita AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-novita-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-openai-api.json", "title": "Glimpse vs OpenAI API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-openai-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "Glimpse vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-prism-inference.json", "title": "Glimpse vs Prism Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-prism-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Glimpse vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Glimpse vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-sambanova.json", "title": "Glimpse vs SambaCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-sambanova" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "Glimpse vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "Glimpse vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Glimpse vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-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": 28, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 66, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "elorian-glimpse": 38, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 15, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "elorian-glimpse": 60, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 7, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 73, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "elorian-glimpse": 66, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 19, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "elorian-glimpse": 56, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 27, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 52, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "elorian-glimpse": 25, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 24, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "elorian-glimpse": 51, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 37, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 73, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "elorian-glimpse": 36, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Cloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Glimpse's 48.6 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do llm inference.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "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.", "elorian-glimpse": "Glimpse reads images and video at $0.60 input and $3.00 output per million tokens, and OpenRouter serves it with tools, structured output and a 262,144-token context. It is a research preview with no public Elorian docs, model card or status page, and Elorian's terms allow training on submitted content unless a paid user opts out." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-elorian-glimpse", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-elorian-glimpse.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-elorian-glimpse.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-elorian-glimpse.min.md" }, "markdown": "Cloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Glimpse's 48.6 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Cloudflare AI Gateway: grade B, 66.8/100, rank #295 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.json\n- Glimpse: grade D, 48.6/100, rank #915 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/elorian-glimpse.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 326 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\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 66 against 38\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 60\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 66\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 56\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 51\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 36\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5\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### Glimpse (D)\n\nGood for: Visual question answering, video captioning and counting over images and video at a low per-token price, where a research preview reached through OpenRouter is acceptable.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Cloudflare AI Gateway loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Labelled a research preview, with no public API docs, model card, changelog or deprecation policy from Elorian\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Glimpse | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 38 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +28 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 60 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 66 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 56 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +19 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 52 | 25 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +27 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 51 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +24 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 36 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +37 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.8 · B** | **48.6 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Glimpse |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model router | Model API |\n| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Elorian |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` | `https://openrouter.ai/api/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | payer tooling only | no |\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 | Closed model and service under the Elorian AI, Inc. terms of service (California law). Weights not released. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Popularity | 251k npm/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |\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**Glimpse.** Glimpse reads images and video at $0.60 input and $3.00 output per million tokens, and OpenRouter serves it with tools, structured output and a 262,144-token context. It is a research preview with no public Elorian docs, model card or status page, and Elorian's terms allow training on submitted content unless a paid user opts out.\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### Glimpse\n\n1. Call it through OpenRouter as `elorian/glimpse` at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions. Elorian's own API docs sit behind a console sign-in\n2. Send video as a `video_url` content part, as a public URL or a base64 data URL. Batch requests are not available for this model\n3. Set `max_tokens` yourself. The endpoint allows up to 256,000 output tokens, and visual reasoning spends many of them\n4. Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503. With a single provider, a 503 means the Together deployment is unavailable, not that another host can take over\n5. Treat counts and timestamps as unverified. Elorian's terms say outputs need independent human review before anyone relies on them\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare AI Gateway or Glimpse?\n\nCloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Glimpse's 48.6 (D), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Cloudflare AI Gateway and Glimpse need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudflare AI Gateway and Glimpse without installing anything?\n\nYes. Cloudflare AI Gateway has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai and Glimpse at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-elorian-glimpse.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-elorian-glimpse.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudflare-ai-gateway\", \"b\": \"elorian-glimpse\"}`. 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