# Cloudflare Workers AI

> The same open models cost about twice as much as on OpenRouter, and frontier models are capped at 20 requests a minute.

- Verdict: Skip (Proposed: research-backed, not yet confirmed by Nic)
- Vendor: Cloudflare
- Layer: [AI](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/layers/ai.md)
- Last reviewed: 18 October 2026, by Nicolas Dao (Cloudless Labs, Sydney)
- Web page: https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/cloudflare-workers-ai/. The whole stack in one file: https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/brief.md

Convenient inside a Worker, but OpenRouter is cheaper and has newer models.

## Don't use it when

- Production features at volume. OpenRouter serves the same open models for about half the price.

## Pricing

$0.011 per 1,000 neurons. DeepSeek V4 Pro: $1.32 / $3.96 per million tokens vs $0.66 / $1.98 on OpenRouter.

## Provisioning

Official Pulumi package · Official Terraform provider

## Use instead

OpenRouter: the same open models for about half the price, and newer ones.

## Alternatives

- [OpenRouter](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/openrouter/index.md): Always.

## In The Stack Weekly

- [Week 43: Decision models (Jev, and Cloudflare's Clef)](https://cloudlesslabs.com/weekly/2026-w43/index.md), watching

## Related

- [AI](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/layers/ai.md): every tool in this layer, with its verdict
- [The whole stack in one file](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/brief.md): every use case and tool, for questions that span many
- [Map of every Markdown file on cloudlesslabs.com, with what each one answers](https://ask.cloudlesslabs.com)