# Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Beam 1.0 (slim)

> Cloudflare AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) to Beam 1.0's 53.4 (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 Beam 1.0's 53.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Beam 1.0 leads on schema & documentation. Both do llm inference.

- Cloudflare AI Gateway: B 66.8, rank #295 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-gateway.min.md
- Beam 1.0: D 53.4, rank #786 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reflection-beam.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 40; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 67; Security & auth, 75 against 46; Payments & pricing, 52 against 20; Maintenance & community, 75 against 50; Transparency & trust, 73 against 68. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5.
- Beam 1.0, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 84 against 75. Also No incidents deducted, where Cloudflare AI Gateway loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Beam 1.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 75 | 84 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 46 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 52 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 50 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Beam 1.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model router | Model API |
| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Reflection |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` | `https://api.reflection.ai/openai/v1` |
| 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 | Weights under Apache-2.0. The hosted Reflection API is a closed service under Reflection AI, Inc.'s commercial terms of service |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given |  |
| 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) |