Cloudflare AI Gateway
free caching, retries and logging in front of fourteen providers
the cheapest way to put caching and observability in front of a model api, limited by a narrower provider list than the catalogue gateways.
the docs are unambiguous that inference is passed through 'with no markup — you pay the same per-token rates as you would directly with the provider'. the gateway itself is free on every cloudflare plan, including the free one, and $5 a month on workers paid buys ten million persistent logs per gateway rather than 100,000 across all of them. for a team already inside cloudflare, that is close to free capability.
what you get is genuinely useful: caching, rate limiting, request retry and fallback, per-request logging, and analytics broken out by request, token and cost. guardrails exist and bill on tokens scanned. logpush is available on paid plans with ten million requests a month included and $0.05 per million after.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- llm gateways
- pricing
- $0 — free on all cloudflare plans
- website
- developers.cloudflare.com
the cheapest way to put caching and observability in front of a model api, limited by a narrower provider list than the catalogue gateways.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.