Cloudflare AI Gateway

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Analytics

The dashboard reports requests, tokens, costs, errors, cache-hit rates and performance across providers.developers.cloudflare.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Authentication

Requests use Cloudflare API tokens, while upstream credentials can be supplied through Unified Billing, stored keys or request headers.developers.cloudflare.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Auto Router

Auto Router selects models based on task suitability and cost, with fallback when a model is unavailable.developers.cloudflare.com · read 21 Oct 2026

BYOK

Provider keys can be stored in Cloudflare's encrypted infrastructure, centrally rotated and used at request time.developers.cloudflare.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Caching

Responses can be served from Cloudflare's global cache, with configurable TTL and per-request controls; Cloudflare says latency can fall by up to 90% for repeated queries.developers.cloudflare.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Company founded and headquarters

Cloudflare was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.linkedin.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Company legal name

The maker is Cloudflare, Inc., a public company listed on NYSE under NET.crunchbase.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Company size

LinkedIn lists Cloudflare's company size as 1,001–5,000 employees.linkedin.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Custom providers

An API lets customers create and manage HTTPS custom-provider endpoints, including internal or self-hosted model services.developers.cloudflare.com · read 21 Oct 2026

DLP

AI Gateway DLP scans prompts and responses for sensitive information and is presented as helping with GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS requirements.developers.cloudflare.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Documentation depth

The documentation includes setup, provider guides, REST reference, bindings, integrations, features, limits, pricing, troubleshooting and a product changelog.developers.cloudflare.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Dynamic routing

Visual routing flows support geographic or user segmentation, A/B traffic splits, content-aware rules and fallbacks.developers.cloudflare.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Guardrails

Guardrails inspect prompts and model responses for harmful content and can flag or block configured categories.developers.cloudflare.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Licence

The hosted AI Gateway service is not presented as an open-source project; an independent review notes there is no source project to self-host or patch.llmtools.cc · read 21 Oct 2026

Limit: free-tier constraints

Independent analysis warns that log quotas and other hard limits can constrain the free offering and may contribute to unexpected bills.scored.tools · read 21 Oct 2026

Limit: observability

Gartner reviewers report that deeper debugging and observability can be limited and documentation may be fragmented.gartner.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Limit: portability

Independent reviewers identify cloud-only deployment and lack of self-hosting as a limitation for portability-sensitive teams.llmtools.cc · read 21 Oct 2026

Log limits

Legacy logging allows 100,000 stored logs on Workers Free and 10 million per gateway on Workers Paid; Logpush allows four jobs per account.developers.cloudflare.com · read 21 Oct 2026

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