How much does Cloudflare Workers AI cost?
- Free plan
- Yes
- Usage price
- $0.01/1,000 neurons
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- Free plan. 10,000 Neurons per day free; beyond that, upgrade to Workers Paid
Watch out for
- Extra usage is billed. Usage above 10,000 Neurons per day is charged at $0.011 / 1,000 Neurons on Workers Paid
- Going over the Workers Paid allowance costs $0.01 per 1,000 neurons. Included: 10000 Neurons per day.
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup, no credit card required "Start building for free — no credit card required."
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Not stated
What Cloudflare Workers AI does
Workers AI is Cloudflare's serverless inference service with a catalog of 50+ models (LLMs, image, speech, embeddings) callable via Workers binding, REST API or OpenAI SDK. It is priced at $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons, with 10,000 Neurons free per day.
- Good for
- Developers who want to call hosted open models for text, image, audio and embeddings without managing GPUs.
- Channels
- Workers binding, REST API, OpenAI SDK, Dashboard, AI Playground
- Main product
- Workers AI
- Also includes
- 50+ models, LLM, embeddings, image, audio and other models, Workers binding and REST API, OpenAI SDK compatibility, Function calling (beta), Fine-tunes with LoRA adapters
- Connects to
- OpenAI SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Hugging Face Chat UI, AI Gateway, Vectorize, Pi AI
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Pay-per-token pricing
Pay-per-inference pricing with no idle costs.
- Multiple models available
50+ models running close to users in 200+ cities
- Fine-tuning support
Using LoRA adaptersBeta
- Streaming responsesNot stated
- Tool and function calling
Function callingBeta
- SOC 2 complianceNot stated
- No training on your dataNot stated
- Discounted batch processingNot stated
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workers Free | – | – | 10000 Neurons per dayUpgrade to Workers Paid beyond free allocation | – | "| Workers Free | 10,000 Neurons per day | N/A - Upgrade to Workers Paid |" |
| Workers Paid/ 1,000 Neurons | $0.01per 1,000 neurons | – | 10000 Neurons per day | $0.01/1,000 neurons | "| Workers Paid | 10,000 Neurons per day | $0.011 / 1,000 Neurons |" |
Free plan: 10,000 Neurons per day free; beyond that, upgrade to Workers Paid
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Usage above 10,000 Neurons per day is charged at $0.011 / 1,000 Neurons on Workers Paid "On Workers Paid, you will be charged at $0.011 / 1,000 Neurons for any usage above the free allocation of 10,000 Neurons per day."
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Cloudflare, Inc.
- Address
- 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107
- Online since
- Feb 17, 2009 Domain registration date
- Customers
- "Thousands of developers" their claim
- Backing
- "Publicly traded (NYSE: NET)" their words
Cloudflare Workers AI alternatives
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Questions
Is Cloudflare Workers AI free?
Yes. 10,000 Neurons per day free; beyond that, upgrade to Workers Paid
