Cloudflare AI Gateway
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Cloudflare AI Gateway, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Cloudflare AI Gateway's own pricing page, checked 21 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| AI Gateway core | Free | dashboard analytics · caching · rate limiting · available on all Cloudflare plans |
| Cloudflare AI Gateway listing | Priced on request | price on request · customized quotation |
The facts
Each one read from Cloudflare AI Gateway's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Analytics
- The dashboard reports requests, tokens, costs, errors, cache-hit rates and performance across providers.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- Requests use Cloudflare API tokens, while upstream credentials can be supplied through Unified Billing, stored keys or request headers.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Auto Router
- Auto Router selects models based on task suitability and cost, with fallback when a model is unavailable.checked 21 Oct 2026
- BYOK
- Provider keys can be stored in Cloudflare's encrypted infrastructure, centrally rotated and used at request time.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Caching
- Responses can be served from Cloudflare's global cache, with configurable TTL and per-request controls; Cloudflare says latency can fall by up to 90% for repeated queries.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Custom providers
- An API lets customers create and manage HTTPS custom-provider endpoints, including internal or self-hosted model services.checked 21 Oct 2026
- DLP
- AI Gateway DLP scans prompts and responses for sensitive information and is presented as helping with GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS requirements.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation includes setup, provider guides, REST reference, bindings, integrations, features, limits, pricing, troubleshooting and a product changelog.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Dynamic routing
- Visual routing flows support geographic or user segmentation, A/B traffic splits, content-aware rules and fallbacks.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Guardrails
- Guardrails inspect prompts and model responses for harmful content and can flag or block configured categories.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The hosted AI Gateway service is not presented as an open-source project; an independent review notes there is no source project to self-host or patch.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: observability
- Gartner reviewers report that deeper debugging and observability can be limited and documentation may be fragmented.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: portability
- Independent reviewers identify cloud-only deployment and lack of self-hosting as a limitation for portability-sensitive teams.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Log limits
- Legacy logging allows 100,000 stored logs on Workers Free and 10 million per gateway on Workers Paid; Logpush allows four jobs per account.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Notable news
- Cloudflare announced identity-aware AI Gateway and User Insights on August 5, 2026, adding verified-user attribution, spend controls and anomaly signals.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Praise: integration
- Gartner reviewers of Cloudflare API Gateway repeatedly praise straightforward Cloudflare ecosystem integration, edge performance and built-in security controls.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Provider integrations
- Native provider routes include Workers AI, Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Baseten, Cartesia, Cerebras, Cohere, Deepgram, DeepSeek, ElevenLabs, Fal, Google AI Studio, Google Vertex, Groq, Hugging Face, Ideogram, Mistral, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Parallel, Perplexity, Replicate and xAI.checked 21 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founded and headquarters
- Cloudflare was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The maker is Cloudflare, Inc., a public company listed on NYSE under NET.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Cloudflare's company size as 1,001–5,000 employees.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2009checked 23 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CAchecked 23 Sep 2026
Money
- Limit: free-tier constraints
- Independent analysis warns that log quotas and other hard limits can constrain the free offering and may contribute to unexpected bills.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Praise: cost
- An independent review highlights free core features and no percentage markup on provider tokens as major advantages.checked 21 Oct 2026
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