# Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Jais 3 (slim)

> Cloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) to Jais 3's 51.7 (D) for llm inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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 & pricing. Both do llm inference.

- Cloudflare AI Gateway: B 66.8, rank #295 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.min.md
- Jais 3: D 51.7, rank #839 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.min.md
- Cloudflare AI Gateway, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 66 against 48; Schema & documentation, 75 against 54; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 65; Security & auth, 75 against 31; Maintenance & community, 75 against 62; Transparency & 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.
- Jais 3, good 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. Ahead on Payments & 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.

| Category | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Jais 3 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 48 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 75 | 54 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 31 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 52 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 62 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 50 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Jais 3 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model router | Model API |
| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Institute of Foundation Models (MBZUAI) and Inception42 |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| x402 | payer tooling only | no |
| 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 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 251k npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |