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          "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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          "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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          "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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          "Keys can be restricted to the Gemini API and by IP or origin, and unrestricted keys are rejected from 28 May 2026",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-api.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\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 66 against 40\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 60\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 40\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### Gemini Developer API (B)\n\nGood for: Cheap, long-context Flash calls for prototypes, public data and agents that need to start without a card.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 75\n- Agent ergonomics, 90 against 73\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 75\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- No incidents deducted, where Cloudflare AI Gateway loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Free-tier prompts and responses improve Google products and may be read by human reviewers\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Gemini Developer API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 40 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +26 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 85 | Gemini Developer API +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 90 | Gemini Developer API +17 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 60 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 52 | 40 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +12 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 83 | Gemini Developer API +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 72 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.8 · B** | **65.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Gemini Developer API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model router | Model API |\n| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Google |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` | `https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\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 | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-22 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | 2026-04-28 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 251k npm/wk | 4k stars |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\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**Gemini Developer API.** Free tier on 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite with no billing account. Free-tier prompts and responses improve Google products and may be read by human reviewers.\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### Gemini Developer API\n\n1. Never send customer data through a free-tier key. Link billing first\n2. Don't request Gemini 4 Argon here. It has no Developer API model ID as of 5 October 2026\n3. Back off exponentially on 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED and 503, and don't retry 400, 402 or 403\n4. Stop sending temperature, top_p and top_k. They've been deprecated since 2026-07-21\n5. Validate structured output yourself. The docs don't promise schema-constrained decoding\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare AI Gateway or Gemini Developer API?\n\nCloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Gemini Developer API's 65.5 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Gemini Developer API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Cloudflare AI Gateway and Gemini Developer API need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudflare AI Gateway and Gemini Developer API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Cloudflare AI Gateway has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai and Gemini Developer API at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-gemini-api.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-gemini-api.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudflare-ai-gateway\", \"b\": \"gemini-api\"}`. 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