Cloudflare Workers AI

Best when your agent already runs on Workers and you want colocated small/open models. Not a frontier brain.

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Best when your agent already runs on Workers and you want colocated small/open models. Not a frontier brain. Strengths: Edge + Workers colocation; Transparent neuron/token pricing; Generous free daily allocation; Embeddings/image/audio too.

Overall

7.7

curated_estimate

confidence: high · as of 2026-09-14

Capability fit

6.8

Price / performance

8.5

Latency / reliability

8.2

Developer & agent DX

8.4

Privacy / data retention

8.0

Lock-in risk (higher = worse)

4.5

Maturity / track record

7.8

Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.

Sources: Workers AI pricing: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/ · Workers AI: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/ · Cloudflare Workers AI product: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-ai/

Best when your agent already runs on Workers and you want colocated small/open models. Not a frontier brain.

Strengths

· Edge + Workers colocation
· Transparent neuron/token pricing
· Generous free daily allocation
· Embeddings/image/audio too

Weaknesses

· Not frontier-quality vs Anthropic/OpenAI
· Model list curated by CF
· Some models require Paid plan

Pricing notes

As of 2026-10-24 (developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing, fetched 2026-10-24): '$0.011 per 1,000 Neurons' with '10,000 Neurons per day at no charge' on both Workers Free and Workers Paid ('All limits reset daily at 00:00 UTC.'). 'To use more than 10,000 Neurons per day, you need to sign up for the Workers Paid plan'. 'Some models require a paid billing method' (listed Kimi K2.6/K2.7-code, GLM-5.2/5.3 and DeepSeek V4 models), payable via Workers Paid or 'prepaid AI Gateway credits'. Per-model token prices are shown as equivalents while 'still billing in neurons in the back end': @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8-fast $0.045/$0.384 per M input/output tokens ('$0.045 per M input tokens', '$0.384 per M output tokens'); @cf/openai/gpt-oss-120b $0.350/$0.750 per M input/output tokens ('$0.350 per M input tokens', '$0.750 per M output tokens'); @cf/baai/bge-m3 '$0.012 per M input tokens'.

Regions: global, usLast reviewed: 2026-09-14Status: active

Sourced pricing

Contract status ambiguous · input_output_split_not_a_single_rate. Single normalized $/1M: null. Machine list: /api/pricing?provider=cloudflare-workers-ai

Workers Paid neurons · usd_per_1k_neurons · $0.011 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
@cf/meta/llama-3.2-1b-instruct · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.027 · sourced_token_price
@cf/meta/llama-3.2-1b-instruct · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $0.201 · sourced_token_price
@cf/meta/llama-3.2-3b-instruct · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.051 · sourced_token_price
@cf/meta/llama-3.2-3b-instruct · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $0.335 · sourced_token_price
@cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8-fast · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.045 · sourced_token_price
@cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8-fast · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $0.384 · sourced_token_price
@cf/meta/llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.049 · sourced_token_price
@cf/meta/llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $0.676 · sourced_token_price
@cf/meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct-fp8-fast · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.293 · sourced_token_price
@cf/meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct-fp8-fast · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $2.253 · sourced_token_price
@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.293 · sourced_token_price

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