{ "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 and Vercel AI Gateway score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 66.8 (B) and 66.7 (B). Vercel AI Gateway leads on reliability and agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "vercel-ai-gateway", "name": "Vercel AI Gateway", "vendor": "Vercel Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://vercel.com", "kind": "router", "category": "inference", "summary": "Vercel AI Gateway is a hosted router for model APIs. One API key or Vercel OIDC token reaches models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others through OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic-compatible and AI SDK interfaces, with budgets, request logs and provider failover.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.json", "repo": "https://github.com/vercel/ai", "license": "Proprietary service under Vercel's Terms of Service and AI Product Terms, with Token Pass terms on its docs page. Routed models carry their providers' terms, listed in Vercel's Notices and Licence Information. The `@ai-sdk/gateway` provider is Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@ai-sdk/gateway" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "ai" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "ai" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "An AI Gateway API key as a Bearer token from any environment, or a Vercel OIDC token on Vercel deployments (12 hours locally, refreshed with `vercel env pull`). Keys belong to a team, can be limited to one project and given an expiry and a budget, and are created in the dashboard, with the Vercel CLI or by `POST /v1/api-keys` with a Vercel access token. A person creates the Vercel account in a browser. Token Pass needs its own Token Pass API key, and OIDC tokens cannot spend Token Pass credit.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Prepaid AI Gateway Credits at each provider's list price, with no markup or platform fee, including BYOK. A monthly free credit covers a subset of models and needs a valid payment method on the team. Credits expire a year after purchase. Add-ons are billed separately, and Token Pass is $30 a team a month on Pro for $80 of credit on two models, in early access (https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing, https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/token-pass, checked 2026-10-17).", "priceSummary": "$30 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the AI Gateway docs, the pricing page, the Token Pass pages or the AI Gateway entries of the changelog sitemap. Payment is by prepaid credits bought with a card, or by invoice on Enterprise (checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 29597661, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway", "llmsTxt": "https://vercel.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://vercel.com/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "inference.router", "inference.llm", "inference.fast", "inference.decision", "obs.gateway", "obs.traces", "embed.text", "image.generate", "video.generate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "router", "usage-based", "prepaid", "free-tier", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "llms-txt", "openapi", "typescript", "python", "oidc", "cli", "early-access", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2", "iso27001" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 302, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 20, "reliability": 74, "schema": 74, "security": 79, "transparency": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "April 2026. Vercel's security bulletin says an attacker took over an employee's account through a compromised third-party AI tool, reached internal systems and decrypted non-sensitive environment variables of a limited subset of customers. AI Gateway was generally available then, and its docs have deployments keep AI Gateway and Token Pass API keys as environment variables. The bulletin documents remediation and marks the incident closed on 16 October 2026, so 3 of a possible 15 is taken, as for vercel-connect (https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-incident)." ], "verdict": "Token prices pass through with no markup, prompts are not stored by the gateway, and budgets, provider failover and per-request logs are built in. The free monthly credit needs a card on file, rate limits are not published as numbers, no SLA covers the API, and the contractual promise not to train on content applies to Enterprise subscriptions only.", "bestFor": "Teams that want one key, one bill, budgets and failover in front of many model providers, especially on Vercel with OIDC.", "strengths": [ "Token prices are each provider's list price with no markup or platform fee, including requests made with the customer's own provider keys", "The model list at `GET /v1/models` needs no key and gives prices, context windows, supported parameters and ZDR and no-training flags for 474 models", "Budgets per team, project, API key or team member reject spend with a 402, distinct from a 429 rate limit", "The gateway logs request metadata only. Prompt and response content is deleted when the request completes, per the FAQ and the ZDR page", "Failed provider attempts are retried on a model's other providers, and every routing attempt appears in the request logs" ], "weaknesses": [ "The free monthly credit needs a valid payment method on the team, and its amount is not stated in the reviewed docs", "No rate-limit numbers are published, and the Enterprise SLA excludes the APIs, so the inference API carries no uptime commitment", "The contractual promise not to train on AI Gateway content covers Enterprise subscriptions only. Provider no-training and ZDR filters are opt-in per request", "A failed BYOK request falls back to Vercel's credentials and is billed to credits, and the no-training filter is not applied to BYOK", "Token Pass is early access for Pro teams only, covers two models, has no failover and fails with a 403 once the $80 credit is spent" ], "agentNotes": [ "Read `GET https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models` without a key to pick a model ID and check its price, context, ZDR and no-training flags before calling", "Set `zeroDataRetention` or `disallowPromptTraining` to true in `providerOptions.gateway` on sensitive requests. Default routing ignores provider retention and training policies", "Treat a 429 as retryable and honour `retry-after` when present. A 402 with `quota_for_entity_exceeded` is a spent budget, so do not retry it", "On a Token Pass key, a 403 with `no_providers_available` means spent credit or a model outside the pass. Retry with a standard AI Gateway key, which bills credits", "Set `inferenceRegion` when data residency matters. The default `global` may run inference outside the user's jurisdiction" ], "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": 66.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 20, "reliability": 74, "schema": 74, "security": 79, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "connect": { "install": "pnpm add ai@latest", "http": "curl https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"openai/gpt-6-astra\",\n \"messages\": [\n {\n \"role\": \"user\",\n \"content\": \"Explain AI Gateway in one sentence.\"\n }\n ]\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.router", "tool": "https://letme.dev/vercel-ai-gateway" }, "sameCompany": [ "vercel-sandbox", "vercel-connect" ], "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Token Pass subscription (Pro teams)", "unit": "month", "usd": 30, "note": "$80 of monthly credit on two featured models. Early access" }, { "item": "Team-wide Zero Data Retention", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.1, "note": "Pro and Enterprise. Per-request ZDR is free" }, { "item": "Team-wide provider allowlist", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.1, "note": "Successful requests, Pro and Enterprise" }, { "item": "Custom Reporting query", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "Queries to the reporting endpoint" }, { "item": "Custom Reporting write of a tag, user ID or quota entity ID", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.075, "note": "Each unique value in a request counts as one write" }, { "item": "AI Gateway trace delivered to a drain", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.05, "note": "Listed per 1,000 traces, Pro and Enterprise" }, { "item": "Trace egress", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.5, "note": "Billed through Drains usage" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Vercel Inc.", "domain": "vercel.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-10-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://vercel.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://www.vercel-status.com", "changelog": "https://vercel.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (last updated 1 June 2026) name Vercel Inc. The AI Product Terms (last updated 17 March 2026, effective 31 March 2026) have a section for AI Gateway and form part of those terms.", "The Privacy Notice is effective from 1 June 2026. The DPA (effective 31 March 2026) applies to Pro and Enterprise plans.", "https://vercel.com/.well-known/security.txt points to HackerOne and responsible.disclosure@vercel.com and expires 2027-09-28.", "The API answers at ai-gateway.vercel.sh, a Vercel domain other than vercel.com. 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Vercel AI Gateway leads on reliability and agent ergonomics.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare AI Gateway or Vercel AI Gateway?" }, { "answer": "Cloudflare AI Gateway needs an API key. Vercel AI Gateway takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Cloudflare AI Gateway and Vercel AI Gateway 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 Vercel AI Gateway at https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Cloudflare AI Gateway and Vercel AI Gateway without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 20" ], "also": null, "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. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "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-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "BlockRun.AI vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "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": 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"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-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-workers-ai-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "DeepInfra vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "DeepSeek API vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Glimpse vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Gemini Developer API vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "GroqCloud vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "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/meta-model-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Meta Model API vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Mistral AI API vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-spark-open-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Muse Spark Open vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-spark-open-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/novita-ai-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Novita AI vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/novita-ai-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "OpenAI API vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "OpenRouter vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "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/sambanova-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "SambaCloud vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sambanova-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/siliconflow-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "SiliconFlow vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/siliconflow-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/stepfun-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "StepFun API vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/stepfun-api-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" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Antseed vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Prism Inference vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 8, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 66, "edge": "vercel-ai-gateway", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "vercel-ai-gateway": 74, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "vercel-ai-gateway": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 73, "edge": "vercel-ai-gateway", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "vercel-ai-gateway": 83, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 4, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "vercel-ai-gateway", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "vercel-ai-gateway": 79, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 32, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 52, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "vercel-ai-gateway": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 75, "edge": "vercel-ai-gateway", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "vercel-ai-gateway": 79, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 3, "cloudflare-ai-gateway": 73, "edge": "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "vercel-ai-gateway": 70, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Cloudflare AI Gateway and Vercel AI Gateway score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 66.8 (B) and 66.7 (B). Vercel AI Gateway leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. 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.", "vercel-ai-gateway": "Token prices pass through with no markup, prompts are not stored by the gateway, and budgets, provider failover and per-request logs are built in. The free monthly credit needs a card on file, rate limits are not published as numbers, no SLA covers the API, and the contractual promise not to train on content applies to Enterprise subscriptions only." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-vercel-ai-gateway", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.min.md" }, "markdown": "Cloudflare AI Gateway and Vercel AI Gateway score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 66.8 (B) and 66.7 (B). Vercel AI Gateway leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. 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- Vercel AI Gateway: grade B, 66.7/100, rank #302 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.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- Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 20\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### Vercel AI Gateway (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want one key, one bill, budgets and failover in front of many model providers, especially on Vercel with OIDC.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 74 against 66\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 73\n\nWatch for: The free monthly credit needs a valid payment method on the team, and its amount is not stated in the reviewed docs\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Vercel AI Gateway | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 74 | Vercel AI Gateway +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 74 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 83 | Vercel AI Gateway +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 79 | Vercel AI Gateway +4 |\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 | 79 | Vercel AI Gateway +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 70 | Cloudflare AI Gateway +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.8 · B** | **66.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudflare AI Gateway | Vercel AI Gateway |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model router | Model router |\n| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Vercel Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` | `https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\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 | Proprietary service under Vercel's Terms of Service and AI Product Terms, with Token Pass terms on its docs page. Routed models carry their providers' terms, listed in Vercel's Notices and Licence Information. The `@ai-sdk/gateway` provider is Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-17 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | 2026-06-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-06-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 251k npm/wk | 29.6M npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3/5 (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**Vercel AI Gateway.** Token prices pass through with no markup, prompts are not stored by the gateway, and budgets, provider failover and per-request logs are built in. The free monthly credit needs a card on file, rate limits are not published as numbers, no SLA covers the API, and the contractual promise not to train on content applies to Enterprise subscriptions only.\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### Vercel AI Gateway\n\n1. Read `GET https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models` without a key to pick a model ID and check its price, context, ZDR and no-training flags before calling\n2. Set `zeroDataRetention` or `disallowPromptTraining` to true in `providerOptions.gateway` on sensitive requests. Default routing ignores provider retention and training policies\n3. Treat a 429 as retryable and honour `retry-after` when present. A 402 with `quota_for_entity_exceeded` is a spent budget, so do not retry it\n4. On a Token Pass key, a 403 with `no_providers_available` means spent credit or a model outside the pass. Retry with a standard AI Gateway key, which bills credits\n5. Set `inferenceRegion` when data residency matters. The default `global` may run inference outside the user's jurisdiction\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare AI Gateway or Vercel AI Gateway?\n\nCloudflare AI Gateway and Vercel AI Gateway score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 66.8 (B) and 66.7 (B). Vercel AI Gateway leads on reliability and agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do Cloudflare AI Gateway and Vercel AI Gateway need an API key?\n\nCloudflare AI Gateway needs an API key. Vercel AI Gateway takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudflare AI Gateway and Vercel AI Gateway without installing anything?\n\nYes. Cloudflare AI Gateway has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai and Vercel AI Gateway at https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudflare-ai-gateway\", \"b\": \"vercel-ai-gateway\"}`. 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