# Cloudflare Workers AI vs SambaCloud (slim)

> Cloudflare Workers AI scores 68.3 (B) to SambaCloud's 66.4 (B) for llm inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Cloudflare Workers AI scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against SambaCloud's 66.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SambaCloud leads on reliability and maintenance & community. Both do llm inference.

- Cloudflare Workers AI: B 68.3, rank #224 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-workers-ai.min.md
- SambaCloud: B 66.4, rank #293 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sambanova.min.md
- Cloudflare Workers AI, good 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. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 75 against 67; Security & auth, 77 against 58; Payments & pricing, 52 against 40; Transparency & trust, 76 against 63.
- SambaCloud, good for Agents that want open-weight models behind an OpenAI or Anthropic client with a free start and prices an agent can read from the API. Ahead on Reliability, 85 against 66; Maintenance & community, 77 against 72. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Cloudflare Workers AI | SambaCloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 77 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 52 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 72 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cloudflare Workers AI | SambaCloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | SambaNova Systems, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai` | `https://api.sambanova.ai/v1` |
| x402 | payer tooling only | no |
| 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 service under the SambaCloud Terms of Service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI document are Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2023-05-27 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 380k npm/wk | 2 stars, 76 npm/wk, 6.1k PyPI/wk |