{ "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": "2026-10-18T00:14:33.752986154Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 32, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 39, "p95ms24h": 100, "samples24h": 253, "samples30d": 2084, "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": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "indicator": "major", "summary": "Partial System Outage", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T00:08:18.63945598Z" }, "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": "2026-10-18T00:14:33.752986154Z" } }, "answer": "Cloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 51.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "jais-3", "name": "Jais 3", "vendor": "Institute of Foundation Models (MBZUAI) and Inception42", "vendorUrl": "https://ifm.ai/blog/jais3/", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Jais 3 is an open-weight family of Arabic and English reasoning models from MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models and Inception42, from 0.9B to 375B parameters with up to 512K tokens of context, released under Apache-2.0 for self-hosting.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jais-3.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/inception42/Jais-3-375B-A23B", "license": "Apache-2.0, declared in the metadata of every model card read. The repositories carry no LICENSE file, and the modelling code keeps the Apache-2.0 header of the Qwen3-MoE code it was generated from", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account or key. The inception42 and IFM repositories on Hugging Face are not gated and download anonymously. A local server has whatever authentication the owner adds, such as vLLM's `--api-key`. The cards' examples call the local server with `api_key=\"EMPTY\"`.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and run under Apache-2.0, with the owner's GPUs as the cost. No hosted endpoint from IFM or Inception42 was found, OpenRouter lists no Jais model, and Hugging Face shows no inference provider for the main repositories (checked 2026-10-17).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402. Jais 3 is a set of weights the owner serves, with no payment route and no hosted API from the makers found (checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/inception42/Jais-3-375B-A23B", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights", "inference.local" ], "tags": [ "model", "open-weights", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "no-card", "apache-2.0", "openai-compatible", "gpu", "apple-silicon", "mlx", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 51.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 839, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 21, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 62, "payments": 60, "reliability": 48, "schema": 54, "security": 31, "transparency": 50 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Jais 3 runs on the owner's hardware through OpenAI-compatible servers in vLLM and SGLang, with tool calls, three reasoning levels and a 512K context, from a 2.2 GB 0.9B model to a 758 GB 375B one. The weights download without sign-up under Apache-2.0, but every launch command trusts remote code, and no technical report or security contact is published.", "bestFor": "An agent or team that needs Arabic and English reasoning and tool use on its own hardware, from a laptop-sized 0.9B to a cluster-sized 375B, under Apache-2.0.", "strengths": [ "Six checkpoints from 0.9B (2.2 GB) to 375B-A23B (758 GB), with FP8, GGUF and MLX builds from IFM", "Apache-2.0 on every card read, ungated downloads, and the CPT, Cooldown, SFT and FTPO training checkpoints published as branches", "With the `k2_horizon` parsers, reasoning returns in `reasoning_content` and tool calls as `tool_calls`, in JSON, XML or typed XML formats", "Launch recipes in the vLLM and SGLang projects' own docs, and K2 Horizon support merged into llama.cpp's master branch", "The chat template validates tool schemas and rejects unknown options with named errors, such as an unsupported `reasoning_effort`" ], "weaknesses": [ "Every documented vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and MLX command passes `--trust-remote-code`, so the repository's Python runs on the host", "The 375B-A23B reference deployment is 16 H100 GPUs across two nodes, or one 8-GPU H200 node", "The technical report and code repository are marked 'coming soon', and IFM's own blog and press release sit behind a bot check", "No LICENSE file in the repositories, no changelog, no deprecation policy and no security contact or security.txt found", "Released on 15 October 2026, with template fixes on 14 and 15 October, and mlx-lm doesn't yet parse its reasoning or tool calls" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start vLLM or SGLang with `--reasoning-parser k2_horizon`, and add `--tool-call-parser k2_horizon` (vLLM also `--enable-auto-tool-choice`) for tools, or tool calls come back as raw text", "Pass `reasoning_effort` (`high`, `medium` or `low`) and `tool_call_format` inside `chat_template_kwargs`. Other values return a template error", "Send each earlier assistant turn back with `reasoning_content` as a string, even an empty one. A missing or null thinking field makes the template raise an error", "Send your own system message, or set `default_system_prompt` to an empty string. Without one the template inserts an identity prompt naming IFM, Inception42 and Cerebras", "Budget at least 32,768 output tokens at `high` effort, which the cards recommend for every request" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "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": 51.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 62, "payments": 60, "reliability": 48, "schema": 54, "security": 31, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 49 }, "connect": { "install": "vllm serve inception42/Jais-3-32B \\\n --trust-remote-code \\\n --dtype bfloat16 \\\n --tensor-parallel-size 2 \\\n --reasoning-parser k2_horizon \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice \\\n --tool-call-parser k2_horizon", "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"inception42/Jais-3-32B\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Summarise this contract in Arabic.\"}],\n \"max_tokens\": 32768,\n \"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"reasoning_effort\": \"high\"}\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/jais-3" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (Institute of Foundation Models), with Inception42 (a G42 company)", "domain": "ifm.ai", "domainRegistered": "2022-09-06", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The chat template's default system prompt names the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) at MBZUAI, with Inception42 (a G42 company) and Cerebras, and gives MBZUAI's Arabic name, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. The citation names the IFM, Inception42 and Cerebras teams. No registered company name for Inception42 was read first-hand.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 6 September 2022 for ifm.ai. The weights are on huggingface.co under the inception42 and IFM organisations.", "The licence is Apache-2.0 in each card's metadata. There is no LICENSE file and no terms or privacy document governing the weights, and no input reaches the makers when the owner serves them.", "ifm.ai answered our reader with a Cloudflare bot check on the press release, the blog post and the sitemap, so they weren't read. inceptionai.ai and mbzuai.ac.ae answered with bot or firewall pages too. ifm.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 17 October 2026.", "No hosted endpoint, so no status page. No changelog. The Hugging Face commit history is public and was read." ], "score": 49 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model router", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "b": "Institute of Foundation Models (MBZUAI) and Inception42", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "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": "Apache-2.0, declared in the metadata of every model card read. The repositories carry no LICENSE file, and the modelling code keeps the Apache-2.0 header of the Qwen3-MoE code it was generated from", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-06", "b": "2026-10-15", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-09-12", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no document linked", "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 Jais 3's 51.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare AI Gateway or Jais 3?" }, { "answer": "Cloudflare AI Gateway needs an API key. Jais 3 needs no key.", "question": "Do Cloudflare AI Gateway and Jais 3 need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Cloudflare AI Gateway has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai. No hosted endpoint is listed for Jais 3.", "question": "Can an agent call Cloudflare AI Gateway and Jais 3 without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 66 against 48", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 54", "Agent ergonomics, 73 against 65", "Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 31", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 62", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 50" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "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": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 52" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Free to start without a card", "No incidents deducted, where Cloudflare AI Gateway loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "An agent or team that needs Arabic and English reasoning and tool use on its own hardware, from a laptop-sized 0.9B to a cluster-sized 375B, under Apache-2.0.", "slug": "jais-3", "watchFor": "Every documented vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and MLX command passes `--trust-remote-code`, so the repository's Python runs on the host" } ], "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-jais-3.json", "title": "Claude API vs Jais 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-jais-3" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-jais-3.json", "title": "Antseed vs Jais 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-jais-3" }, { "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-jais-3.json", "title": "BlockRun.AI vs Jais 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-jais-3" }, { "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": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-cohere-chat.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Cohere Chat API (Command models)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-cohere-chat" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-deepinfra.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs DeepInfra", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-deepinfra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-deepseek-api.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs DeepSeek API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-deepseek-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-elorian-glimpse.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Glimpse", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-elorian-glimpse" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-gemini-api.json", "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Gemini Developer API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-gemini-api" }, { "json": "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-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-jais-3.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Jais 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-jais-3" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-jais-3.json", "title": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs Jais 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-jais-3" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-jais-3.json", "title": "DeepInfra vs Jais 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-jais-3" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-jais-3.json", "title": "DeepSeek API vs Jais 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-jais-3" }, { "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/gemini-api-vs-jais-3.json", "title": "Gemini Developer API vs Jais 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-jais-3" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-jais-3.json", "title": "GroqCloud vs Jais 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-jais-3" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-meta-model-api.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs Meta Model API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-meta-model-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-mistral-api.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs Mistral AI API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-mistral-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-muse-spark-open.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs Muse Spark Open", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-muse-spark-open" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-novita-ai.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs Novita AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-novita-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-openai-api.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs OpenAI API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-openai-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-prism-inference.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs Prism Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-prism-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-sambanova.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs SambaCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-sambanova" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-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": 18, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 66, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "jais-3": 48, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 21, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "jais-3": 54, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 73, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "jais-3": 65, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 44, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "jais-3": 31, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 8, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 52, "edge": "jais-3", "jais-3": 60, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 13, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "jais-3": 62, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 23, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 73, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "jais-3": 50, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Cloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 51.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on payments \u0026 pricing. 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.", "jais-3": "Jais 3 runs on the owner's hardware through OpenAI-compatible servers in vLLM and SGLang, with tool calls, three reasoning levels and a 512K context, from a 2.2 GB 0.9B model to a 758 GB 375B one. The weights download without sign-up under Apache-2.0, but every launch command trusts remote code, and no technical report or security contact is published." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-jais-3", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-jais-3.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-jais-3.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-jais-3.min.md" }, "markdown": "Cloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 51.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on payments \u0026 pricing. 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- Jais 3: grade D, 51.7/100, rank #839 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jais-3.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 48\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 54\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 31\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 62\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\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### Jais 3 (D)\n\nGood for: An agent or team that needs Arabic and English reasoning and tool use on its own hardware, from a laptop-sized 0.9B to a cluster-sized 375B, under Apache-2.0.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- No incidents deducted, where Cloudflare AI Gateway loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Every documented vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and MLX command passes `--trust-remote-code`, so the repository's Python runs on the host\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Jais 3 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 48 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +18 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 54 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +21 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 65 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 31 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +44 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 52 | 60 | Jais 3 +8 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 62 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +13 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 50 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +23 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.8 · B** | **51.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Jais 3 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model router | Model API |\n| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Institute of Foundation Models (MBZUAI) and Inception42 |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\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, declared in the metadata of every model card read. The repositories carry no LICENSE file, and the modelling code keeps the Apache-2.0 header of the Qwen3-MoE code it was generated from |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-15 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |\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**Jais 3.** Jais 3 runs on the owner's hardware through OpenAI-compatible servers in vLLM and SGLang, with tool calls, three reasoning levels and a 512K context, from a 2.2 GB 0.9B model to a 758 GB 375B one. The weights download without sign-up under Apache-2.0, but every launch command trusts remote code, and no technical report or security contact is published.\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### Jais 3\n\n1. Start vLLM or SGLang with `--reasoning-parser k2_horizon`, and add `--tool-call-parser k2_horizon` (vLLM also `--enable-auto-tool-choice`) for tools, or tool calls come back as raw text\n2. Pass `reasoning_effort` (`high`, `medium` or `low`) and `tool_call_format` inside `chat_template_kwargs`. Other values return a template error\n3. Send each earlier assistant turn back with `reasoning_content` as a string, even an empty one. A missing or null thinking field makes the template raise an error\n4. Send your own system message, or set `default_system_prompt` to an empty string. Without one the template inserts an identity prompt naming IFM, Inception42 and Cerebras\n5. Budget at least 32,768 output tokens at `high` effort, which the cards recommend for every request\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare AI Gateway or Jais 3?\n\nCloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 51.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Cloudflare AI Gateway and Jais 3 need an API key?\n\nCloudflare AI Gateway needs an API key. Jais 3 needs no key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudflare AI Gateway and Jais 3 without installing anything?\n\nCloudflare AI Gateway has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai. No hosted endpoint is listed for Jais 3.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-jais-3.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-jais-3.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudflare-ai-gateway\", \"b\": \"jais-3\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare cloudflare-ai-gateway jais-3`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jais-3.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Cloudflare AI Gateway or Jais 3\n\n- [Claude API vs Cloudflare AI Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.md)\n- [Claude API vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [Antseed vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Cloudflare AI Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Cloudflare Workers AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Cohere Chat API (Command 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