AI Gateway tool profile
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Cloudflare's gateway in front of AI providers: analytics, caching and rate limiting are free on every Cloudflare plan, with optional unified billing at a 5% fee on credits.
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- Best for
- Developers already on Cloudflare who want free caching, rate limiting and usage analytics in front of their existing provider keys with one line of code.
- Starting point
- Core features (dashboard analytics, caching, rate limiting) are free on all plans.
- Free plan
- Yes — Core AI Gateway features are free on every Cloudflare plan with a Cloudflare account.
- Key limitation
- Hosted on Cloudflare; there is no self-hosted edition
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Avoid it if
- Unified Billing requests are limited to 200 per 60 seconds per gateway (BYOK is not)
- Log pricing and retention changed for gateways created on or after September 24, 2026
Free-plan suitability
Core AI Gateway features are free on every Cloudflare plan with a Cloudflare account; usage-based extras (Guardrails, Logpush, Unified Billing fees) are billed separately.
Pricing
Core features (dashboard analytics, caching, rate limiting) are free on all plans. Unified Billing adds a 5% fee on purchased credits, with provider inference passed through at no markup. DLP scanning is free; Guardrails is billed as Workers AI inference. Logs: gateways created from September 24, 2026 follow Workers Logs pricing; earlier gateways keep Legacy Logs (100,000 logs on Workers Free, 10 million per gateway on Workers Paid). Logpush needs Workers Paid (10M requests/month, then $0.05 per million).
Verify the current plan, credits, output limits, and commercial terms before purchasing.
What Cloudflare AI Gateway does
- Free core features on all plans: dashboard analytics, caching and rate limiting
- Works with your own provider keys (BYOK) or Cloudflare-managed Unified Billing
- Unified Billing passes provider prices through with no markup and a 5% fee on credits
- Free DLP scanning with predefined profiles; Guardrails via Llama Guard on Workers AI
- 10 gateways per account on the free plan, 20 on paid; cache TTL up to one month
Is it legit?
Who is behind Cloudflare AI Gateway, where it is based, and what is publicly known about its funding. Company details change — verify on the official site before committing.
- Company
- Cloudflare, Inc.
Evaluation guide
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