Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents

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nnikitoci about 4 hours ago 26 commentsRead Article on blog.cloudflare.com

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whereistejas•about 3 hours ago

This actually looks very useful. Cloudflare seems to be brining together a great set of tools. Not to mention, D2 is literally the only sqlite-as-a-service solution out there whose reliability is great and free tier limits are generous.

kylehotchkiss•4 minutes ago

* D1, but agreed. I wish Cloudflare would offer a built-in D1-R2 backups system though! (Can be done with custom code in a worker, but wish it was first-party)

bm-rf•about 3 hours ago

Not seeing any pricing info on the models[1] page. Wonder how much of a lift this is over paying providers directly. Perhaps Cloudflare is doing this at cost? Also interesting that zero data retention is not on by default, and is not supported with all providers[2]. Finally, would be great if this could return OpenAI AND Anthropic style completions.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai/models/

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/features/unifie...

samjs•1 minute ago

Hey! I'm one of the engineers who built this :)

We'll be adding prices to the docs and the model catalog in the dashboard shortly.

In short: currently the pricing matches whatever the provider charges. You can buy unified billing credits [1] which charges a small processing fee.

> Finally, would be great if this could return OpenAI AND Anthropic style completions.

Agreed! This will be coming shortly. Currently we'll match the provider themselves, but we plan to make it possible to specify an API format when using LLMs.

[1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/features/unifie...

yoavm•about 3 hours ago

Workers AI pricing is this: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricin...

bm-rf•about 2 hours ago

Thanks, I don't see pricing for foundation models however, such as GPT-5.4

ashleypeacock•7 minutes ago

It’s at-cost pricing I believe, no mark up

ramesh31•about 3 hours ago

Big, could be a viable Bedrock alternative. Probably better uptime than Anthropic or AWS, too.

Jack5500•about 4 hours ago

Sadly no mention on regions.

pprotas•about 4 hours ago

Can't wait for the free tier!

yoavm•about 3 hours ago

Workers AI had a free tier since it launched, I think? See the pricing page I linked to above.

indigodaddy•about 1 hour ago

So looks like the AI Platform free tier will have access to the open models only perhaps? And the 10,000 neuron thing? I don't see any mention of frontier models in the url you linked in the other comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792538#47793142 )

throwpoaster•about 3 hours ago

Anthropic gonna acquire Cloudflare for stock. Solves their infrastructure problems in one shot.

kylehotchkiss•2 minutes ago

No way! Cloudflare will buy anthropic when the economy begins self-correcting. Looking forward to Workers AI getting all those H100s to run more Qwens

neya•about 3 hours ago

I'm not ready to for another rug pull, so please no :( I really enjoy Cloudflare's CDN.

ernsheong•about 2 hours ago

What is Cloudflare trying to be? Everything everywhere all at once?

charcircuit•about 2 hours ago

They want to be an edge networking platform. Anything that would be useful doing on an edge node close to the end user is in scope.

PUSH_AX•about 2 hours ago

A CSP.

mbtrucks•about 2 hours ago

Can I set a hard cost limit ? Else I'm not interested, don't be like googles mess of billing.

6thbit•about 3 hours ago

don’t attach to a single AI provider when you can attach to cloudflare as your single AI gateway provider!

rant aside, they are greatly positioned network wise to offer this service, i wonder about their princing and potential markup on top of token usage?

i presume they wont let you “manage all your AI spend in one place” for free.

koolba•about 3 hours ago

> i presume they wont let you “manage all your AI spend in one place” for free.

Of course they will. In return they get to control who they’re routing requests to. I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns I to the LLM equivalent of “paying for order flow”.

6thbit•about 3 hours ago

i got shivers thinking about a future ai dynamic pricing and automatic gateway choosing the cheapest provider available

nhecker•about 2 hours ago

Openrouter already does this, unless I've misunderstood the premise.

mbtrucks•about 2 hours ago

Can I set a hard cost limit per day ? With no drift, else I'm not interested.

wahnfrieden•about 3 hours ago

No spending limit / no ability to set a budget, unlike Google or OpenAI. Be prepared for an eye-watering invoice if you have a bug or get hacked.

edit: Why downvote? It's correct, and it's a risk that competitors handle better, including for their CDN products (compared to Bunny CDN). Maybe you are just used to the risk and haven't felt the burn yourself yet. Or you have the mistaken notion that there is no price at which temporary downtime is worthwhile to avoid paying.

stult•about 2 hours ago

A few weeks ago, I ran into a bug with Cloudflare's DNS server not detecting when I updated the records with the registrar. The bug was 100% on their end, entirely unsolvable by me, yet they have made it literally impossible to contact them to file a bug report. Their standard user help workflow dead-ended by forcing me to talk to their absolutely useless AI help chatbot, which proceeded to regurgitate their FAQ (inaccurately, uselessly), then referred me to a phone number that was disconnected/not in service, then gave me an email address that auto-replied it was no longer in use, then just looped back to the FAQ. There was no way for me to even send them an email to let them know they have a major bug.

I immediately pulled all my sites off of Cloudflare and I will never use that godawful nightmare of a company for anything ever again. If they can't even host a generic help bot without screwing it up that badly, why would I ever use them for anything at all, never mind an AI platform?