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      "vendor": "Cloudflare, Inc.",
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      "summary": "Workers AI is Cloudflare's serverless inference service for open-weight models, covering text generation, embeddings, images and speech. Agents call it through the Cloudflare REST API, OpenAI-compatible endpoints or a Workers binding.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-workers-ai",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-workers-ai.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-workers-ai.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-workers-ai.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/cloudflare/api-schemas",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement. Each hosted model carries its own open-weight licence, linked from its model page. The `cloudflare` SDKs are Apache-2.0, `workers-ai-provider` is MIT and the OpenAPI repository is BSD-3-Clause",
      "transports": [
        "http"
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      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
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          "registry": "npm",
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          "registry": "pypi",
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      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "A Cloudflare API token as a Bearer header, created by a person in the dashboard, with the Workers AI Read or Workers AI Edit permission on an account. Tokens can carry an expiry and an IP address filter. Inside a Worker the `AI` binding needs no token. The API reference also accepts the older global API key with an account email. Later tokens can be created through the API with an existing token.",
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      "pricingNotes": "$0.011 per 1,000 neurons, shown per model as token, image or audio prices, for example Gemma 4 26B at $0.10 in and $0.30 out per 1M tokens. 10,000 neurons a day are free on the Workers Free and Paid plans, and going past that needs Workers Paid, from $5 a month. Seven frontier models need Workers Paid or prepaid AI Gateway credits. A Free plan account starts without a contract (https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/, checked 2026-10-09).",
      "priceSummary": "from $0.0605 / 1M in",
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      "x402": {
        "level": "partial",
        "evidence": "AI Gateway 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 per-model route `/ai/run/{model_name}` and the OpenAI-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",
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            "network": ""
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      "popularity": {
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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      },
      "docsUrl": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/",
      "rateLimitsUrl": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/limits/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudflare/api-schemas/main/openapi.json",
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        "inference.open-weights",
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        "rerank",
        "image.generate",
        "speech.stt",
        "speech.tts",
        "compute.batch"
      ],
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        "hosted",
        "model",
        "open-weights",
        "usage-based",
        "free-tier",
        "x402",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "openai-compatible",
        "batch",
        "prompt-caching",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "go",
        "status-page",
        "bug-bounty"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-01",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 68.3,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 236,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 7,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 75,
          "maintenance": 72,
          "payments": 52,
          "reliability": 66,
          "schema": 80,
          "security": 77,
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        },
        "pending": [
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          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-09"
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        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "28 July 2026. Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code and GLM-5.2 began returning 403 (code 5035) on the Workers Free plan on the day of the notice, with no advance warning found. Three points (https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-28-models-require-workers-paid/)."
        ],
        "verdict": "Per-model prices, rate limits and JSON Schemas are public, 10,000 neurons a day are free, and x402 payment is in beta on `/ai/run` for four models. No SLA was found, three models moved to paid-only access on 28 July 2026 with no notice, and several docs pages still use a model retired in May.",
        "bestFor": "Agents that already run on Cloudflare Workers, or that want open-weight chat, embedding, reranking, speech and image models behind one token with a free daily allowance.",
        "strengths": [
          "Per-model token prices, cached-input prices and neuron rates are published without a login, with 10,000 neurons a day free on the Workers Free plan",
          "x402 payment (Machine Payments, beta since 30 September 2026) works on `POST /ai/run` for four open models",
          "Rate limits are published per task type, and a 429 separates a spent free allocation (3036) from capacity (3040)",
          "API tokens are limited to Workers AI permissions on an account, with optional expiry and IP address filtering",
          "DeepSeek V4 and GLM-5.3 run with a 1,048,576-token context, with prefix caching and discounted cached input"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No SLA for Workers AI was found in the docs or the agreements read",
          "Three models moved to paid-only access on 28 July 2026, the day of the notice, and Free plan calls to them return 403",
          "Eighteen models were retired on 30 May 2026 with 22 days' notice, and no minimum notice period is published",
          "The REST quick start, the OpenAI-compatibility page and the JSON Mode model list still name models on the 30 May 2026 retirement list",
          "The x402 route still needs a Cloudflare API token, a United States account and a card on file"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Check the model page before calling. Seven models need Workers Paid or AI Gateway credits and return 403 with code 5035 on the Free plan",
          "Read the internal code on a 429. 3036 means the day's 10,000 free neurons are spent until 00:00 UTC, 3040 means capacity, so retry later",
          "Set `options.rejectIfBusy` to fail fast, or add `?queueRequest=true` for the batch route when the answer can wait",
          "Send the same `x-session-affinity` value on every turn of a session to reach the prefix cache and the cached-input price",
          "Keep paid frontier models under 20 requests a minute per model, or 50 with prepaid AI Gateway credits"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "avgRating": 3,
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            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
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              "tasks"
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            "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 72,
          "payments": 52,
          "reliability": 66,
          "schema": 80,
          "security": 77,
          "transparency": 56
        },
        "provenanceScore": 95
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID/ai/run/@cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it \\\n  -X POST \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_AUTH_TOKEN\" \\\n  -d '{ \"messages\": [{ \"role\": \"system\", \"content\": \"You are a friendly assistant\" }, { \"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Why is pizza so good\" }]}'",
        "x402": "curl -iX POST \"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$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?\"}]}}'"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/cloudflare-workers-ai"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
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        "cloudflare-sandbox-sdk",
        "cloudflare-web-search",
        "cloudflare-ai-search",
        "cloudflare-cli",
        "cloudflare-mcp",
        "cloudflare-email-service",
        "cloudflare-r2",
        "cloudflare-clef"
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      "area": "models",
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          "item": "Whisper large v3 turbo, speech to text",
          "unit": "audio-minute",
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          "note": "46.63 neurons"
        },
        {
          "item": "Deepgram Nova-3, speech to text",
          "unit": "audio-minute",
          "usd": 0.0052,
          "note": "472.73 neurons. $0.0092 over WebSocket"
        },
        {
          "item": "Deepgram Aura-1, text to speech",
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          "usd": 15,
          "note": "listed as $0.015 per 1,000 characters"
        },
        {
          "item": "Deepgram Aura-2, text to speech",
          "unit": "1m-chars",
          "usd": 30,
          "note": "listed as $0.030 per 1,000 characters, English and Spanish"
        }
      ],
      "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/changelog/product/workers-ai/",
        "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 Workers AI data usage page cites it and the Enterprise Subscription Agreement as the governing documents.",
          "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.",
          "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 to match the other Cloudflare listings.",
          "The endpoint is on api.cloudflare.com.",
          "The status page lists Workers AI as its own component, operational on 9 October 2026.",
          "RDAP for cloudflare.com gives a registration date of 2009-02-17.",
          "The Workers AI changelog page (https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/changelog/) stops at 16 June 2026, so the product changelog is recorded."
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        "score": 95
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-17",
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com",
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          "summary": "Partial System Outage",
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          "ok": true,
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            "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-05-08-planned-model-deprecations/",
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      "name": "Glimpse",
      "vendor": "Elorian",
      "vendorUrl": "https://elorian.ai/models.html",
      "kind": "model",
      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "Glimpse is Elorian's visual reasoning model, released as a research preview on 16 October 2026. It takes text, images and video and returns text, through Elorian's own API and chat app and through OpenRouter.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/elorian-glimpse.json",
      "license": "Closed model and service under the Elorian AI, Inc. terms of service (California law). Weights not released.",
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        "http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "On the graded route, an OpenRouter bearer key, created after a browser sign-up and drawing on prepaid credit. Elorian's own API takes bearer keys beginning `elor_sk_`, created in its console after a Google or email sign-in with a Cloudflare Turnstile check. No scopes were found on either.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "$0.60 per million input tokens, $0.06 cached and $3.00 per million output tokens on OpenRouter through Together, matching Elorian's published rates (checked 2026-10-17). OpenRouter's top-up fee applies. Elorian says Glimpse can be tried free on its own platform, and volume access is through sales.",
      "priceSummary": "Pay per use",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in OpenRouter's docs index or API reference, Elorian's launch post or Elorian's terms, which describe prepaid credits or a subscription (checked 2026-10-17).",
        "endpoints": []
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-17"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/elorian/glimpse",
      "capabilities": [
        "inference.llm"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "model",
        "closed-source",
        "usage-priced",
        "prepaid",
        "multimodal",
        "video",
        "preview",
        "openai-compatible",
        "new"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-16",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
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        "score": 48.6,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 915,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 23,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 66,
          "maintenance": 51,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 38,
          "schema": 60,
          "security": 56,
          "transparency": 36
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
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        "verdict": "Glimpse reads images and video at $0.60 input and $3.00 output per million tokens, and OpenRouter serves it with tools, structured output and a 262,144-token context. It is a research preview with no public Elorian docs, model card or status page, and Elorian's terms allow training on submitted content unless a paid user opts out.",
        "bestFor": "Visual question answering, video captioning and counting over images and video at a low per-token price, where a research preview reached through OpenRouter is acceptable.",
        "strengths": [
          "Takes text, images and video and returns text, with a 262,144-token context and up to 256,000 output tokens on OpenRouter",
          "$0.60 per million input tokens, $0.06 cached and $3.00 per million output tokens, published without a login",
          "On OpenRouter it accepts `tools`, `tool_choice`, `response_format`, `structured_outputs` and `reasoning` through the OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint",
          "OpenRouter documents Retry-After on 429 and 503, video input as `video_url` and per-key credit limits",
          "Elorian's own benchmark table puts it above GPT-6 Astra on four of twelve visual evaluations, at a fraction of the price. Vendor-reported"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Labelled a research preview, with no public API docs, model card, changelog or deprecation policy from Elorian",
          "One provider on OpenRouter (Together, on a dedicated deployment), so there is no fallback if that endpoint goes down",
          "Elorian's terms licence submitted content for training. Paid users opt out by email, and free use trains by default",
          "Elorian's terms forbid using the Service through any agent or automated software other than Elorian's own",
          "The tools the launch post says Glimpse is trained to use (code, image transforms, video watching, subagents) aren't exposed on OpenRouter"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Call it through OpenRouter as `elorian/glimpse` at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions. Elorian's own API docs sit behind a console sign-in",
          "Send video as a `video_url` content part, as a public URL or a base64 data URL. Batch requests are not available for this model",
          "Set `max_tokens` yourself. The endpoint allows up to 256,000 output tokens, and visual reasoning spends many of them",
          "Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503. With a single provider, a 503 means the Together deployment is unavailable, not that another host can take over",
          "Treat counts and timestamps as unverified. Elorian's terms say outputs need independent human review before anyone relies on them"
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            "methodology": "0.4",
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              "tasks"
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          "maintenance": 51,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 38,
          "schema": 60,
          "security": 56,
          "transparency": 31
        },
        "provenanceScore": 40
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"model\":\"elorian/glimpse\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"How many open pliers are in this photo?\"},{\"type\":\"image_url\",\"image_url\":{\"url\":\"https://example.com/photo.jpg\"}}]}]}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/elorian-glimpse"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Glimpse input on OpenRouter",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.6
        },
        {
          "item": "Glimpse cached input on OpenRouter",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.06
        },
        {
          "item": "Glimpse output on OpenRouter",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 3,
          "note": "Reasoning tokens are output."
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Elorian AI, Inc.",
        "domain": "elorian.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2025-12-03",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": false,
        "terms": "https://platform.elorian.ai/terms",
        "privacy": "https://elorian.ai/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
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          "The terms, privacy policy and support page name Elorian AI, Inc., 654 High Street, Floor 2, Palo Alto, California, with EDPO as EU and UK representative.",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/elorian-glimpse.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 Workers AI (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that already run on Cloudflare Workers, or that want open-weight chat, embedding, reranking, speech and image models behind one token with a free daily allowance.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 66 against 38\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 60\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 66\n- Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 56\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 51\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 36\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No SLA for Workers AI was found in the docs or the agreements read\n\n### Glimpse (D)\n\nGood for: Visual question answering, video captioning and counting over images and video at a low per-token price, where a research preview reached through OpenRouter is acceptable.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Cloudflare Workers AI loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Labelled a research preview, with no public API docs, model card, changelog or deprecation policy from Elorian\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudflare Workers AI | Glimpse | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 38 | Cloudflare Workers AI +28 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 60 | Cloudflare Workers AI +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 66 | Cloudflare Workers AI +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 56 | Cloudflare Workers AI +21 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 52 | 25 | Cloudflare Workers AI +27 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 51 | Cloudflare Workers AI +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 36 | Cloudflare Workers AI +40 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.3 · B** | **48.6 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudflare Workers AI | Glimpse |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Elorian |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` | `https://openrouter.ai/api/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | payer tooling only | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement. Each hosted model carries its own open-weight licence, linked from its model page. The `cloudflare` SDKs are Apache-2.0, `workers-ai-provider` is MIT and the OpenAPI repository is BSD-3-Clause | Closed model and service under the Elorian AI, Inc. terms of service (California law). Weights not released. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 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 | 380k npm/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cloudflare Workers AI.** Per-model prices, rate limits and JSON Schemas are public, 10,000 neurons a day are free, and x402 payment is in beta on `/ai/run` for four models. No SLA was found, three models moved to paid-only access on 28 July 2026 with no notice, and several docs pages still use a model retired in May.\n\n**Glimpse.** Glimpse reads images and video at $0.60 input and $3.00 output per million tokens, and OpenRouter serves it with tools, structured output and a 262,144-token context. It is a research preview with no public Elorian docs, model card or status page, and Elorian's terms allow training on submitted content unless a paid user opts out.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cloudflare Workers AI\n\n1. Check the model page before calling. Seven models need Workers Paid or AI Gateway credits and return 403 with code 5035 on the Free plan\n2. Read the internal code on a 429. 3036 means the day's 10,000 free neurons are spent until 00:00 UTC, 3040 means capacity, so retry later\n3. Set `options.rejectIfBusy` to fail fast, or add `?queueRequest=true` for the batch route when the answer can wait\n4. Send the same `x-session-affinity` value on every turn of a session to reach the prefix cache and the cached-input price\n5. Keep paid frontier models under 20 requests a minute per model, or 50 with prepaid AI Gateway credits\n\n### Glimpse\n\n1. Call it through OpenRouter as `elorian/glimpse` at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions. Elorian's own API docs sit behind a console sign-in\n2. Send video as a `video_url` content part, as a public URL or a base64 data URL. Batch requests are not available for this model\n3. Set `max_tokens` yourself. The endpoint allows up to 256,000 output tokens, and visual reasoning spends many of them\n4. Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503. With a single provider, a 503 means the Together deployment is unavailable, not that another host can take over\n5. Treat counts and timestamps as unverified. Elorian's terms say outputs need independent human review before anyone relies on them\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare Workers AI or Glimpse?\n\nCloudflare Workers AI scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Glimpse's 48.6 (D), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Cloudflare Workers AI and Glimpse need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudflare Workers AI and Glimpse without installing anything?\n\nYes. Cloudflare Workers AI has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai and Glimpse at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-elorian-glimpse.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-elorian-glimpse.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudflare-workers-ai\", \"b\": \"elorian-glimpse\"}`. 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