{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cloudflare-workers-ai", "name": "Cloudflare Workers AI", "vendor": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.cloudflare.com", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "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" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "workers-ai-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, 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.", "pricing": "freemium", "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", "where": "hosted", "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", "priceUsd": null, "network": "" } ] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 379824, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "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", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights", "embed.text", "rerank", "image.generate", "speech.stt", "speech.tts", "compute.batch" ], "tags": [ "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": 239, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1175, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 52, "reliability": 66, "schema": 80, "security": 77, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "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 }, "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": 68.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 52, "reliability": 66, "schema": 80, "security": 77, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "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?\"}]}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cloudflare-workers-ai" }, "sameCompany": [ "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "cloudflare-sandbox-sdk", "cloudflare-web-search", "cloudflare-ai-search", "cloudflare-cli", "cloudflare-mcp", "cloudflare-email-service", "cloudflare-r2", "cloudflare-clef" ], "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Whisper large v3 turbo, speech to text", "unit": "audio-minute", "usd": 0.0005, "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", "unit": "1m-chars", "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." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-workers-ai.json", "live": { "slug": "cloudflare-workers-ai", "probe": { "target": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-19T18:43:05.108766553Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 33, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 19, "p95ms24h": 42, "samples24h": 257, "samples30d": 2537, "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": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 200, "ok": 200 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "indicator": "major", "summary": "Partial System Outage", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T18:44:52.469629496Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "cloudflare", "version": "7.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:41:38.948297748Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "workers-ai-provider", "version": "4.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:41:38.187234068Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cloudflare", "version": "5.9.0", "released": "2026-10-03", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:41:40.202770051Z" } ], "githubStars": 197, "npmWeekly": 234007, "pypiWeekly": 729273, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cloudflare.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T15:54:39.713885584Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T14:27:34.099913577Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cloudflare.com", "registered": "2009-02-17", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/cloudflare.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:36:47.922893773Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/product/workers-ai/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:27:04.344564885Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-15T21:53:49.804273926Z", "fingerprint": "70a8230e3699" }, { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-05-08-planned-model-deprecations/", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:26:56.341510258Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "456d5c31e53a" }, { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-28-models-require-workers-paid/", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:26:58.324819898Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "23663c817503" } ], "github": { "repo": "cloudflare/api-schemas", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T06:01:43.357430258Z", "stars": 197, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-17T22:38:36Z", "openIssues": 10, "openPRs": 1, "issuesOpened90d": 10, "issuesClosed90d": 1, "prsMerged90d": 0, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 50, "failure": 0, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-17T22:38:59Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 11, "unanswered": 10, "medianDays": 0 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T18:44:52.469629496Z" } }, "answer": "Cloudflare Workers AI scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax API leads on reliability.", "b": { "slug": "minimax-api", "name": "MiniMax API", "vendor": "MiniMax", "vendorUrl": "https://www.minimax.io", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "MiniMax's API for its M-series text models, M3.1 Flash and M3, in the Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Chat Completions and OpenAI Responses formats, with 1M-token context and automatic prompt caching.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-api.json", "repo": "https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M3", "license": "Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. MiniMax-M3 weights are on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.minimax.io", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer key from platform.minimax.io, charged to a prepaid balance. M Plan subscribers get a separate Subscription Key that draws on the plan's usage windows, and the two kinds of key can't be swapped. Mainland China accounts use api.minimaxi.com with a separate key. MiniMax says it may disable a key that leaks publicly.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Prepaid balance, pay as you go. MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.60 per million output tokens and $0.015 per million cache-read tokens at any input length. MiniMax-M3 is $0.30 in and $1.20 out up to 512K input tokens and $0.60 and $2.40 above, with cache reads at $0.06 and $0.12, and a Priority tier at 1.5 times that M3.1 Flash doesn't take. Caching is automatic. The web_search server tool (beta) is $0.01 a request. M Plan subscriptions for coding tools are Go $22, Explore $55 and Build $132 a month, and annual billing pays for 10 months (https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview, https://platform.minimax.io/docs/m-plan/monthly-offer, checked 19 October 2026).", "priceSummary": "from $0.15 / 1M in", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt or pricing page. Prepaid balance top-up or an M Plan subscription (checked 2026-10-19).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 493, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-19" }, "docsUrl": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/text-generation", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/rate-limits", "llmsTxt": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/text/api/openapi-chat-anthropic.json", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "prepaid", "openapi", "llms-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-19", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.2, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 751, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1175, "categoryRank": 19, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 20, "reliability": 75, "schema": 82, "security": 30, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-19" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "M3.1 Flash costs $0.15 in and $0.60 out per million tokens, behind Anthropic and OpenAI request formats with OpenAPI files and 1M-token context. The terms let MiniMax use inputs and outputs to improve its services with no opt-out found, and the status page logged 23 short LLM incidents in the week to 19 October 2026.", "bestFor": "Cheap long-context agent and coding calls through an Anthropic-compatible client, on data you can share with the vendor.", "strengths": [ "M3.1 Flash at $0.15 in, $0.60 out and $0.015 for cache reads per million tokens, flat at any input length", "Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Chat Completions and OpenAI Responses formats, each with an OpenAPI 3.1 file", "1M-token context and up to 524,288 output tokens on M3.1 Flash and M3", "Automatic prompt caching and a token-count endpoint", "MiniMax-M3 weights on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence" ], "weaknesses": [ "The terms let MiniMax use inputs and outputs to develop and improve its services, and no opt-out was found", "No free tier, SLA, batch API, JSON Schema output mode or security.txt", "23 LLM error incidents on the status page from 13 to 19 October 2026, each under 45 minutes", "M2.5 and M2.7 retire on 18 November 2026, 30 days after new users lost them, and plan requests to them already go to M3.1 Flash", "The model list calls M2.5 and M2.7 retired while the notice on the same page gives 18 November 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the Anthropic-format base URL `https://api.minimax.io/anthropic` for tool calls. The OpenAI-format schema has no `tool_choice` or `response_format`", "Set `output_config.effort` (or `reasoning_effort`) below `max` for routine calls. M3.1 Flash defaults to max, can't turn thinking off, and counts thinking against `max_tokens`", "Don't rely on `stop_sequences` or `top_k`. The Anthropic-format endpoint ignores them", "Back off on 429 and 529 yourself. No Retry-After header is documented", "Use a pay-as-you-go key for production. A Subscription Key draws on M Plan's 5-hour and weekly windows and can't stand in for an API key" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 20, "reliability": 75, "schema": 82, "security": 30, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.minimax.io/anthropic/v1/messages \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MINIMAX_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"MiniMax-M3.1-Flash\",\"output_config\":{\"effort\":\"low\"},\"max_tokens\":4096,\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/minimax-api" }, "sameCompany": [ "minimax-video", "minimax-voice-cloning", "minimax-code" ], "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "web_search server tool (beta)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 10 }, { "item": "M Plan Go", "unit": "month", "usd": 22, "note": "M3.1 Flash, image and audio, no video. Annual billing pays for 10 months" }, { "item": "M Plan Explore", "unit": "month", "usd": 55, "note": "3 times Go's usage, adds H3 video" }, { "item": "M Plan Build", "unit": "month", "usd": 132, "note": "7.5 times Go's usage, adds H3 video" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nanonoble Pte. Ltd.", "domain": "minimax.io", "domainRegistered": "2021-03-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://platform.minimax.io/protocol/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://platform.minimax.io/protocol/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.minimax.io", "changelog": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/release-notes/models", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-19", "notes": [ "Nanonoble Pte. Ltd., 152 Beach Road, #14-02 Gateway East, Singapore, is named in the terms (effective 30 March 2026) and the privacy policy (updated 30 March 2026), read on 19 October 2026 from the document text the pages carry for the browser. The policy reader recorded both pages as unreadable on 8 October, and that reading is kept.", "RDAP for minimax.io gives a registration date of 2021-03-27 and a transfer on 2025-01-31, as recorded on the MiniMax Video API listing.", "platform.minimax.io and api.minimax.io answer 404 for /.well-known/security.txt, and www.minimax.io redirects it to the home page.", "The API release notes page has no entry after 28 October 2025. Model releases are dated on a separate page, which has the 19 October 2026 entry." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.json", "live": { "slug": "minimax-api", "probe": { "target": "https://api.minimax.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-19T18:43:17.575383015Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 299, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 258, "p95ms24h": 445, "samples24h": 38, "samples30d": 38, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 38, "ok": 38 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.minimax.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T18:45:19.534162785Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T15:55:03.5197794Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T18:45:19.534162785Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "b": "MiniMax", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai", "b": "https://api.minimax.io", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "payer tooling only", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-gemini-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-groq.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs GroqCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-groq" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-jais-3.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Jais 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-jais-3" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-meta-model-api.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Meta Model API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-meta-model-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-mistral-api.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Mistral AI API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-mistral-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-muse-spark-open.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Muse Spark Open", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-muse-spark-open" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-novita-ai.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Novita AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-novita-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-openai-api.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs OpenAI API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-openai-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-prism-inference.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Prism Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-prism-inference" }, { "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/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-sambanova.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs SambaCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-sambanova" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-together-inference.json", "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Together AI Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-together-inference" }, { "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-minimax-api.json", "title": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs MiniMax API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-minimax-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-minimax-api.json", "title": "DeepInfra vs MiniMax API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-minimax-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-minimax-api.json", "title": "DeepSeek API vs MiniMax API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-minimax-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-minimax-api.json", "title": "Glimpse vs MiniMax API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-minimax-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fireworks-inference-vs-minimax-api.json", "title": "Fireworks AI Inference vs MiniMax API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fireworks-inference-vs-minimax-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-minimax-api.json", "title": "Gemini Developer API vs MiniMax API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-minimax-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-minimax-api.json", "title": "GroqCloud vs MiniMax API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-minimax-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-minimax-api.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs MiniMax API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-minimax-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-minimax-api.json", "title": "Meta Model API vs MiniMax API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-minimax-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-mistral-api.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs Mistral AI API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-mistral-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-muse-spark-open.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs Muse Spark Open", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-muse-spark-open" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-novita-ai.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs Novita AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-novita-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-openai-api.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs OpenAI API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-openai-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-prism-inference.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs Prism Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-prism-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-sambanova.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs SambaCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-sambanova" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-together-inference.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs Together AI Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-together-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 9, "cloudflare-workers-ai": 66, "edge": "minimax-api", "key": "reliability", "minimax-api": 75, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "cloudflare-workers-ai": 80, "edge": "minimax-api", "key": "schema", "minimax-api": 82, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 16, "cloudflare-workers-ai": 75, "edge": "cloudflare-workers-ai", "key": "ergonomics", "minimax-api": 59, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 47, "cloudflare-workers-ai": 77, "edge": "cloudflare-workers-ai", "key": "security", "minimax-api": 30, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 32, "cloudflare-workers-ai": 52, "edge": "cloudflare-workers-ai", "key": "payments", "minimax-api": 20, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 27, "cloudflare-workers-ai": 72, "edge": "cloudflare-workers-ai", "key": "maintenance", "minimax-api": 45, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 12, "cloudflare-workers-ai": 76, "edge": "cloudflare-workers-ai", "key": "transparency", "minimax-api": 64, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Cloudflare Workers AI scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax API leads on reliability. Both do llm inference.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "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.", "minimax-api": "M3.1 Flash costs $0.15 in and $0.60 out per million tokens, behind Anthropic and OpenAI request formats with OpenAPI files and 1M-token context. The terms let MiniMax use inputs and outputs to improve its services with no opt-out found, and the status page logged 23 short LLM incidents in the week to 19 October 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-minimax-api", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-minimax-api.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-minimax-api.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-minimax-api.min.md" }, "markdown": "Cloudflare Workers AI scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax API leads on reliability. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Cloudflare Workers AI: grade B, 68.3/100, rank #239 of 1175. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-workers-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-workers-ai.json\n- MiniMax API: grade C, 55.2/100, rank #751 of 1175. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-api.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 436 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- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 59\n- Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 30\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 52 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 45\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 64\n\nWatch for: No SLA for Workers AI was found in the docs or the agreements read\n\n### MiniMax API (C)\n\nGood for: Cheap long-context agent and coding calls through an Anthropic-compatible client, on data you can share with the vendor.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 66\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Cloudflare Workers AI loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: The terms let MiniMax use inputs and outputs to develop and improve its services, and no opt-out was found\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudflare Workers AI | MiniMax API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 75 | MiniMax API +9 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 82 | MiniMax API +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 59 | Cloudflare Workers AI +16 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 30 | Cloudflare Workers AI +47 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 52 | 20 | Cloudflare Workers AI +32 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 45 | Cloudflare Workers AI +27 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 64 | Cloudflare Workers AI +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.3 · B** | **55.2 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudflare Workers AI | MiniMax API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | MiniMax |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` | `https://api.minimax.io` |\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 | Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. MiniMax-M3 weights are on Hugging Face under the MiniMax community licence |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-19 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 380k npm/wk | 493 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (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**MiniMax API.** M3.1 Flash costs $0.15 in and $0.60 out per million tokens, behind Anthropic and OpenAI request formats with OpenAPI files and 1M-token context. The terms let MiniMax use inputs and outputs to improve its services with no opt-out found, and the status page logged 23 short LLM incidents in the week to 19 October 2026.\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### MiniMax API\n\n1. Use the Anthropic-format base URL `https://api.minimax.io/anthropic` for tool calls. The OpenAI-format schema has no `tool_choice` or `response_format`\n2. Set `output_config.effort` (or `reasoning_effort`) below `max` for routine calls. M3.1 Flash defaults to max, can't turn thinking off, and counts thinking against `max_tokens`\n3. Don't rely on `stop_sequences` or `top_k`. The Anthropic-format endpoint ignores them\n4. Back off on 429 and 529 yourself. No Retry-After header is documented\n5. Use a pay-as-you-go key for production. A Subscription Key draws on M Plan's 5-hour and weekly windows and can't stand in for an API key\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare Workers AI or MiniMax API?\n\nCloudflare Workers AI scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against MiniMax API's 55.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. MiniMax API leads on reliability.\n\n### Do Cloudflare Workers AI and MiniMax API need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudflare Workers AI and MiniMax API without installing anything?\n\nYes. 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