> Cloudflare Workers AI
Cloudflare Workers AI serves open-weight models on Cloudflare's edge network, metered in Neurons ($0.011 per 1,000). Every account — including the Free plan — gets 10,000 Neurons per day free, resetting at 00:00 UTC; beyond that, the Paid plan bills usage. The catalog spans LLMs, embeddings, image and audio models and sits next to your Workers apps.
// pros
- 10,000 Neurons free every day on the Free plan (reset 00:00 UTC) — roughly $3.30/month of value at full use, no card required.
- Every model is priced in both Neurons and per-1M tokens (e.g. Llama 3.3 70B $0.293/$2.253; gpt-oss-120b $0.35/$0.75), so you can budget either way.
- Inference runs on the same edge network as Workers — models sit next to your apps with no second vendor to reconcile.
- Broad open-model catalog: Llama, Qwen, GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, plus embeddings, image (FLUX) and audio (Whisper, Nova) models.
- Prepaid AI Gateway credits unlock higher rate limits on frontier models.
// cons
- The daily reset makes the free allowance useless for bursty workloads — 10,000 Neurons is a few hundred 70B-class completions per day.
- Going over the limit is a hard fail: requests error until the next UTC reset — no queueing, no soft overflow billing on the Free plan.
- Frontier proprietary models are absent — the catalog is open-weight plus a narrow partner set.
- Neuron accounting is opaque until you compute per model — 1M output tokens on gpt-oss-120b is 68,182 Neurons.
The best always-on free option here for low-volume production: edge-located inference that can run indefinitely for free. Keep a second provider for overflow — the daily cap is a hard stop, not a queue.
written by Mike Fleming, Uprouter editorial · verified against official sources September 16, 2026
Value taken from the provider’s own published free-tier terms, expressed in USD.
note: 10,000 Neurons/day free on all plans (reset 00:00 UTC) ≈ $0.11/day ≈ $3.30/month at full use; overage $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons on the Paid plan.
| Plan | Type | Monthly | Input /1M | Output /1M | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier (source-reported) | free | — | — | — | Both Free and Paid Workers plans get 10,000 Neurons/day at no charge; Free-plan requests fail after the quota is exhausted, Paid overage billed at $0.011 / 1,000 Neurons. |
| Pay-as-you-go (Neurons) | payg | — | $11.00 | — | $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons. Actual token rates vary by model mapping. |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash (Mapped) | payg | — | $0.440 | $1.32 | Token price derived from Neuron usage (40k neurons input / 120k neurons output per 1M tokens). |
Pricing normalized from public sources — always verify with the provider.
// model prices
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemma family | — | — | — |
| Llama family | — | — | — |
| Qwen family | — | — | — |
| Mistral | — | — | — |
| Llama Guard 3 | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill | — | — | — |
$ Does Cloudflare Workers AI have a free tier?
Yes — Cloudflare Workers AI offers a free tier that we value at roughly $0.11 in free credits. Always confirm current limits on Cloudflare Workers AI's official pricing page — free tiers change without notice.
$ How much does Cloudflare Workers AI cost per 1M tokens?
Cloudflare Workers AI does not publish simple per-1M-token pricing (it may bill per request, per output, or via a subscription plan). Check their official pricing page for exact figures.
$ Is Cloudflare Workers AI safe to use?
Uprouter rates Cloudflare Workers AI as low risk. Low risk: first-party from a named public infrastructure company, with one authoritative pricing page stating the free allocation, the daily reset and per-model Neuron costs (updated Aug 28, 2026). The operational risk is the hard daily ceiling — production traffic must treat 00:00 UTC as a reset boundary and plan overflow elsewhere. Risk ratings are editorial, evidence-based, and never influenced by affiliate relationships.
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// more_informationprice history · live status · risk & confidence · code snippets
price_history
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live_status
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risk_&_confidence
Low risk: first-party from a named public infrastructure company, with one authoritative pricing page stating the free allocation, the daily reset and per-model Neuron costs (updated Aug 28, 2026). The operational risk is the hard daily ceiling — production traffic must treat 00:00 UTC as a reset boundary and plan overflow elsewhere.
Confidence reflects how much verifiable evidence (official docs, probe history, community reports) backs this entry. Risk is our editorial assessment of operator reliability and terms — not financial advice.
code_snippets
# Cloudflare Workers AI's own API — get a key from their dashboard
curl https://YOUR-PROVIDER-ENDPOINT/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer THEIR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "gemma-family",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }]
}'Direct to the provider — Uprouter receives nothing; verify their current pricing before purchasing.
Ranked by neutral similarity signals only — live status, free-tier shape and free-credit proximity. Commercial relationships never influence this list.