{ "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 Beam 1.0's 53.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Beam 1.0 leads on schema \u0026 documentation.", "b": { "slug": "reflection-beam", "name": "Beam 1.0", "vendor": "Reflection", "vendorUrl": "https://reflection.ai", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Beam 1.0 is Reflection's open-weight text model for coding, reasoning and agentic work, with 501B total and 23B active parameters and a 1M-token context, served by the Reflection API in public beta and released as Apache-2.0 weights.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-beam", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-beam.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-beam.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/reflection-beam.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/reflection/Beam-1.0-501B-A23B", "license": "Weights under Apache-2.0. The hosted Reflection API is a closed service under Reflection AI, Inc.'s commercial terms of service", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key created by a person on platform.reflection.ai under API Keys. Each key belongs to one project and to the user who made it, is shown once, can be revoked from the API Keys page, and is disabled if that user leaves the organisation or project. No scopes, expiry or key-management API found. The docs say some organisations must verify a credit card in Billing before their keys work (`payment_method_required`). Self-hosted weights need no account; the Hugging Face repositories are not gated.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "The Reflection API is a public beta, free with a daily usage allocation per account that resets once a day. The beta pricing page gives no allocation figures and still carries template placeholders for the reset time and the dashboard location. No per-token price for after the beta was found. The commercial terms promise 30 days' notice before fees rise. Hosted copies on OpenRouter cost $0.25 to $1.30 input and $1.00 to $4.30 output per million tokens (Nebius, Together, CoreWeave, Baseten, checked 2026-10-17). The weights are free to self-host under Apache-2.0.", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Reflection docs, llms.txt, OpenAPI document or terms. Access needs a browser sign-up on platform.reflection.ai and an API key (checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.reflection.ai/introduction", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://developers.reflection.ai/rate-limits", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.reflection.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developers.reflection.ai/api-reference/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "self-hosted", "free", "beta", "openai-compatible", "openapi", "llms-txt", "status-page", "apache-2.0", "gpu", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.4, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 786, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 18, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 50, "payments": 20, "reliability": 40, "schema": 84, "security": 46, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The Reflection API is OpenAI-compatible, with an OpenAPI document, strict structured outputs and tool calls, and error codes that say when to retry, and the weights are Apache-2.0. It is a free public beta with unpublished daily limits and no per-token price, reasoning can't be turned off, and three API incidents were posted between 14 and 16 October 2026.", "bestFor": "An OpenAI-compatible endpoint for a large open-weight coding and agent model, for builders who want the same model hosted or self-hosted under Apache-2.0.", "strengths": [ "OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions with `tool_choice`, parallel tool calls, strict tool schemas and `json_schema` structured outputs", "Error reference lists every status and code with whether to retry, and responses carry `Retry-After`, `x-should-retry` and `x-request-id`", "OpenAPI 3.0.3 document, llms.txt, a Markdown copy of every page and a docs MCP endpoint at developers.reflection.ai/mcp", "1,048,576-token context and up to 131,072 output tokens, with reasoning returned in its own `reasoning_content` field", "Weights in BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 under Apache-2.0, ungated, with Reflection's guides for SGLang, vLLM, TokenSpeed, Transformers, Helm and Dynamo" ], "weaknesses": [ "The API is a public beta with no SLA, and per-organisation rate limits and the daily allocation are not published as numbers", "Reasoning is mandatory and defaults to `max`, and a tool-call turn returned without `reasoning_content` makes every later request in that session fail", "The commercial terms grant Reflection a training licence over content sent to free or discounted services, while its API safety page says content isn't used for training by default", "Flagged content retention is 12 months in the terms but two years on the API safety page, and zero data retention is not yet available", "Three API incidents in its first three days, two rated critical, with no changelog or model deprecation notice period found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `reasoning_effort` `low` or `medium` for short tasks. The default is `max`, and `none` or `minimal` return `400 unsupported_value`", "Return every assistant message with its `reasoning_content` unchanged. If a turn comes back without it, start a new conversation, since later requests fail with `missing_required_parameter`", "Don't rely on `stop` or `seed`. Both are accepted and ignored, so truncate output in your own code", "Honour `x-should-retry: false` on a 429. It means a daily limit is spent and `Retry-After` counts to 00:00 UTC", "Set `max_completion_tokens` yourself on long prompts. The default budget isn't reduced to fit the prompt and includes reasoning tokens" ], "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": 53.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 50, "payments": 20, "reliability": 40, "schema": 84, "security": 46, "transparency": 59 }, "provenanceScore": 76 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install openai # or: npm install openai, with base URL https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1", "http": "curl https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $REFLECTION_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"Beam-1.0-501B-A23B\",\n \"messages\": [\n {\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Why is the sky blue?\"}\n ]\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/reflection-beam" }, "sameCompany": [ "reflection-mirror" ], "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Reflection AI, Inc.", "domain": "reflection.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "domainNote": "RDAP gives a registration date of 16 December 2017 and a transfer on 15 March 2024, so the domain predates the current owner.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://reflection.ai/legal/commercial-terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://reflection.ai/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.reflection.ai", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The commercial terms, last updated 5 October 2026, name Reflection AI, Inc. and New York law. The privacy policy was last updated 28 August 2026. The DPA uses Irish law for its EU clauses.", "reflection.ai/.well-known/security.txt, developers.reflection.ai/.well-known/security.txt and api.reflection.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 17 October 2026. platform.reflection.ai answers every path with its app page. The model card names reports@reflection.ai for security vulnerabilities.", "No changelog or release notes found in the docs, llms.txt or sitemap, and /changelog returned 404.", "reflection.ai's robots.txt disallows /docs and /api/, which were not fetched. platform.reflection.ai is a sign-in app and was not read beyond its public shell." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-beam.json", "live": { "slug": "reflection-beam", "probe": { "target": "https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:53.341061714Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 357, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 347, "p95ms24h": 529, "samples24h": 24, "samples30d": 24, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.reflection.ai", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T00:09:05.711143546Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://reflection.ai/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:08:49.802729824Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9c7c5b230f4e" }, { "url": "https://reflection.ai/legal/commercial-terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:08:47.345492008Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a23138fc242a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:53.341061714Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model router", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "b": "Reflection", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai", "b": "https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "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": "Weights under Apache-2.0. The hosted Reflection API is a closed service under Reflection AI, Inc.'s commercial terms of service", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "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 Beam 1.0's 53.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Beam 1.0 leads on schema \u0026 documentation.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare AI Gateway or Beam 1.0?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Cloudflare AI Gateway and Beam 1.0 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 Beam 1.0 at https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Cloudflare AI Gateway and Beam 1.0 without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 66 against 40", "Agent ergonomics, 73 against 67", "Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 46", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 50", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 68" ], "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": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 75" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Cloudflare AI Gateway loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "An OpenAI-compatible endpoint for a large open-weight coding and agent model, for builders who want the same model hosted or self-hosted under Apache-2.0.", "slug": "reflection-beam", "watchFor": "The API is a public beta with no SLA, and per-organisation rate limits and the daily allocation are not published as numbers" } ], "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-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Claude API vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Antseed vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "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-reflection-beam.json", "title": "BlockRun.AI vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "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-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-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-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "DeepInfra vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "DeepSeek API vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "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/gemini-api-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Gemini Developer API vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "GroqCloud vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "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/meta-model-api-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Meta Model API vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Mistral AI API vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-spark-open-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Muse Spark Open vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-spark-open-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/novita-ai-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Novita AI vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/novita-ai-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "OpenAI API vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "OpenRouter vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Prism Inference vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-sambanova.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs SambaCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-sambanova" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "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": 26, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 66, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "reflection-beam": 40, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "reflection-beam", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reflection-beam": 84, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 73, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reflection-beam": 67, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 29, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reflection-beam": 46, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 32, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 52, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reflection-beam": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 25, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reflection-beam": 50, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 5, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 73, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reflection-beam": 68, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Cloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Beam 1.0's 53.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Beam 1.0 leads on schema \u0026 documentation. 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.", "reflection-beam": "The Reflection API is OpenAI-compatible, with an OpenAPI document, strict structured outputs and tool calls, and error codes that say when to retry, and the weights are Apache-2.0. It is a free public beta with unpublished daily limits and no per-token price, reasoning can't be turned off, and three API incidents were posted between 14 and 16 October 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-reflection-beam", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-reflection-beam.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-reflection-beam.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-reflection-beam.min.md" }, "markdown": "Cloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Beam 1.0's 53.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Beam 1.0 leads on schema \u0026 documentation. 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- Beam 1.0: grade D, 53.4/100, rank #786 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-beam.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/reflection-beam.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 40\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 46\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 50\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 68\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### Beam 1.0 (D)\n\nGood for: An OpenAI-compatible endpoint for a large open-weight coding and agent model, for builders who want the same model hosted or self-hosted under Apache-2.0.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 75\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Cloudflare AI Gateway loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: The API is a public beta with no SLA, and per-organisation rate limits and the daily allocation are not published as numbers\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Beam 1.0 | 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 | 84 | Beam 1.0 +9 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 67 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 46 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +29 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 52 | 20 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +32 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 50 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +25 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 68 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.8 · B** | **53.4 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Beam 1.0 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model router | Model API |\n| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Reflection |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` | `https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\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 | Weights under Apache-2.0. The hosted Reflection API is a closed service under Reflection AI, Inc.'s commercial terms of service |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\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**Beam 1.0.** The Reflection API is OpenAI-compatible, with an OpenAPI document, strict structured outputs and tool calls, and error codes that say when to retry, and the weights are Apache-2.0. It is a free public beta with unpublished daily limits and no per-token price, reasoning can't be turned off, and three API incidents were posted between 14 and 16 October 2026.\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### Beam 1.0\n\n1. Send `reasoning_effort` `low` or `medium` for short tasks. The default is `max`, and `none` or `minimal` return `400 unsupported_value`\n2. Return every assistant message with its `reasoning_content` unchanged. If a turn comes back without it, start a new conversation, since later requests fail with `missing_required_parameter`\n3. Don't rely on `stop` or `seed`. Both are accepted and ignored, so truncate output in your own code\n4. Honour `x-should-retry: false` on a 429. It means a daily limit is spent and `Retry-After` counts to 00:00 UTC\n5. Set `max_completion_tokens` yourself on long prompts. The default budget isn't reduced to fit the prompt and includes reasoning tokens\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare AI Gateway or Beam 1.0?\n\nCloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Beam 1.0's 53.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Beam 1.0 leads on schema \u0026 documentation.\n\n### Do Cloudflare AI Gateway and Beam 1.0 need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudflare AI Gateway and Beam 1.0 without installing anything?\n\nYes. Cloudflare AI Gateway has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai and Beam 1.0 at https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-reflection-beam.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-reflection-beam.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudflare-ai-gateway\", \"b\": \"reflection-beam\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare cloudflare-ai-gateway reflection-beam`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/reflection-beam.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Cloudflare AI Gateway or Beam 1.0\n\n- [Claude API vs Cloudflare AI Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.md)\n- [Claude API vs Beam 1.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-reflection-beam.md)\n- [Antseed vs Beam 1.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-reflection-beam.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Cloudflare AI Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Beam 1.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-reflection-beam.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Cloudflare Workers AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai.md)\n- 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