Cloudflare Workers AI today
Starts at
$0.011/1,000 Neurons
- Contract
- Not found
- Free plan
- 10,000 Neurons per day free; beyond that, upgrade to Workers Paid
Other options (10)
No computed reason to switch, listed for completeness.
| Alternative | Starts at | Against Cloudflare Workers AI | States that Cloudflare Workers AI doesn't | Contract | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 xAI APIGrok Plus (app subscription), read Oct 29, 2026 |
$8/moGrok Plus (app subscription) plan, starting price | Not comparable | SOC 2 compliance, SOC 2, SSO, HIPAA BAA | Not found | Not found |
 Hugging Face Inference ProvidersPRO, read Oct 29, 2026 |
$9/moPRO plan, starting price | Not comparable | SSO | Not found | Free Hub account with unlimited public models, datasets and apps; CPU Basic... |
 Anthropic Claude APIPro, read Oct 29, 2026 |
$20/moPro plan, starting price | Not comparable | No training on your data, Discounted batch processing, SSO, HIPAA BAA | Enterprise is annual only; Pro and Team can be monthly or annual | Not found |
 AI/ML APIread Oct 29, 2026 |
$20/minimum top upUsage price | Not comparable | No training on your data, MCP server | Not found | Not found |
 Basetenread Oct 29, 2026 |
$1.40/1M input tokensUsage price | Not comparable | Streaming responses, SOC 2 compliance, SOC 2, SSO and 1 more | Not found | Trial: New accounts come with free credits; duration not stated |
 DeepInfraread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.06/1M input tokensUsage price | Not comparable | Streaming responses, SOC 2 compliance, No training on your data, SOC 2 | no long-term contracts | Not found |
 DigitalOcean Gradient AIread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.05/M tokensUsage price | Not comparable | Discounted batch processing | Not found | Trial: $5 free credit valid for 90 days (example given) |
 Google Gemini APIread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.30/1M input tokensUsage price | Not comparable | Streaming responses, No training on your data, Discounted batch processing | Not found | Free tier with free input and output tokens, limited access to certain... |
 Google Vertex AIread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.085/vCPU-hourUsage price | Not comparable | Nothing extra found | Not found | Agent Compute includes 50 free hours, Agent Memory 100 free GiB-hours, and... |
 OpenAI APIread Oct 29, 2026 |
$0.10/1M tokensUsage price | Not comparable | Streaming responses, SOC 2 compliance, No training on your data, Discounted batch processing and 2 more | Not found | Not found |
No price found, or contact sales (4)
- Azure OpenAI Servicehybrid
- Cerebras Inferencehybrid
- DeepSeek APIcontact the vendor
- Groqcontact the vendor
Questions
Is there a free alternative to Cloudflare Workers AI?
Yes. 3 AI API platforms have a free plan, including Hugging Face Inference Providers, Google Gemini API, Google Vertex AI.
How this page is made
Alternatives come from Cloudflare Workers AI's own category, AI API platforms. Prices come from each vendor's pricing page and are compared at the same volume where both can be computed, and by starting price where neither can. "States that Cloudflare Workers AI doesn't" lists what we found on the other vendor's site and didn't find on Cloudflare Workers AI's, which doesn't prove Cloudflare Workers AI lacks it. How prices are read.