Cloudflare Workers AI free tier includes Workers AI runs AI models on Cloudflare's global network… Verified October 2026. Compare with 27 alternatives in AI / ML.
Why caution:effective 2026-07-28 — On 2026-07-28 Cloudflare took Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code and GLM-5.2 off the Workers Free plan; they now need the Workers Paid plan (or, from 2026-08-07, prepaid AI Gateway credits). Source ↗Full history ↓
A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. This one rests on a record effective 2026-07-28, so it lapses on 2027-01-25 unless we record something new first.
Subtypes in AI / ML:llm_api — the vendor runs language or multimodal models on its own infrastructure and sells calls to them by model name; you send a prompt and receive a completion. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/, where it says: “prepaid AI Gateway credits to pay for Workers AI inference”How we use this.
Limits, pricing history, and 27 alternatives. Verified October 2026. Last updated 2026-10-31.
Cloudflare Workers AI's free tier offers Workers AI runs AI models on Cloudflare's global network… We rate it caution — one recorded limit reduction, on 2026-07-28. Best for ai / ml workloads — 27 alternatives available.
⚠️ Pricing change: Workers AI keeps running. Cloudflare removes 24 Workers AI models on November 20, 2026: they can be called until then, and from that date requests to them fail with HTTP 410 Gone (error code 5028). Language models: @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6, @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code, @cf/zai-org/glm-5.2, @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3-flash, @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731, @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813, @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b, @cf/nvidia/nemotron-3-120b-a12b, @cf/qwen/qwq-32b, @cf/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8, @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8, @cf/meta/llama-3.2-1b-instruct, @cf/meta/llama-3.2-3b-instruct, @cf/meta-llama/llama-2-7b-chat-hf-lora, @cf/google/gemma-2b-it-lora and @cf/google/gemma-7b-it-lora; Cloudflare recommends @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 or @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3 for frontier model needs and @cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it or @cf/qwen/qwen3.8-27b for smaller ones. Other models, each with Cloudflare's replacement: @cf/myshell-ai/melotts (@cf/deepgram/aura-2-en); @cf/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0, @cf/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5-inpainting, @cf/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning and @cf/lykon/dreamshaper-8-lcm (@cf/black-forest-labs/flux-2-klein-9b); @cf/openai/whisper-tiny-en (@cf/deepgram/nova-3); @cf/llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf (@cf/moondream/moondream3.1-9B-A2B); @cf/google/embeddinggemma-300m (@cf/google/embeddinggemma-2, not yet available). Source ↗ (effective 2026-11-20)View in changelog →
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Free Tier Details
Workers AI runs AI models on Cloudflare's global network. Every account gets 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge, reset daily at 00:00 UTC; on the Workers Free plan, requests beyond that fail until the reset. On the Workers Paid plan (from $5 per month), usage above 10,000 Neurons per day costs $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons. Eight models require the Workers Paid plan or prepaid AI Gateway credits: @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6, @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code, @cf/zai-org/glm-5.2, @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3, @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3-flash, @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731, @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 and @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813. Cloudflare removes 24 models from Workers AI on 2026-11-20, including six of those eight (all but glm-5.3 and deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017); they can be called until then, and from 2026-11-20 requests to them fail with HTTP 410 Gone (error 5028). On 2026-05-30, Cloudflare deprecated 18 models and told users to remove references to them: @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct, @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-awq, @cf/meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct, @cf/meta/llama-3-8b-instruct, @cf/meta/llama-3-8b-instruct-awq, @hf/meta-llama/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct, @cf/meta/llama-2-7b-chat-int8, @cf/meta/llama-2-7b-chat-fp16, @cf/mistral/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1, @hf/mistral/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2, @hf/google/gemma-7b-it, @cf/google/gemma-3-12b-it, @hf/nousresearch/hermes-2-pro-mistral-7b, @cf/microsoft/phi-2, @cf/defog/sqlcoder-7b-2, @cf/unum/uform-gen2-qwen-500m, @cf/facebook/bart-large-cnn and @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5. On 2026-10-15, Cloudflare's model catalog still listed @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8, @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast and the -lora variants, but no longer listed @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fast; llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8 and the -lora variants are among the 24 models removed on 2026-11-20. Cloudflare's suggested replacements were @cf/zai-org/glm-4.7-flash, @cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6, which is itself removed on 2026-11-20. Since 2026-05-30, requests to @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 go to @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6, which costs more and requires the Workers Paid plan or prepaid AI Gateway credits; without them, requests get HTTP 403 (error 5035).
Cloudflare prices models in Neurons per million tokens. @cf/openai/gpt-oss-20b costs 18,182 Neurons per million input tokens and 27,273 per million output tokens. @cf/openai/gpt-oss-120b costs 31,818 and 68,182 Neurons respectively. @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast costs 26,668 and 204,805 Neurons. @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8-fast costs 4,119 and 34,868 Neurons. 10,000 Neurons pay for about 367,000 output tokens of gpt-oss-20b, 147,000 of gpt-oss-120b, 49,000 of llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast, or 287,000 of llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8-fast, not counting input tokens. Other models have their own rates on Cloudflare's pricing page. (From developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing, read 2026-11-12.)
Cloudflare does not use Workers AI inputs or outputs to train models. It does not retain them after a standard inference request, unless you enable a feature that stores them, such as logging or caching in AI Gateway. (From developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/data-usage, read 2026-10-29.)
Cloudflare AI Search is a managed search service over your own content. Every account gets 5 million ingestion tokens, 10 GB-month of storage, 1,000 semantic queries and 1,000 full-text queries a month. Embedding and reranking calls are billed as AI Search usage and do not appear on the Workers AI bill. (From developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/platform/limits-pricing, read 2026-11-03.)
When You'll Outgrow Cloudflare Workers AI's Free Tier
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade.
At that point, the 27 alternatives in AI / ML are each listed with the free tier they offer, so you can compare what they give you against what you have outgrown.
Workers AI keeps running. Cloudflare removes 24 Workers AI models on November 20, 2026: they can be called until then, and from that date requests to them fail with HTTP 410 Gone (error code 5028). Language models: @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6, @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code, @cf/zai-org/glm-5.2, @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3-flash, @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731, @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813, @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b, @cf/nvidia/nemotron-3-120b-a12b, @cf/qwen/qwq-32b, @cf/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8, @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8, @cf/meta/llama-3.2-1b-instruct, @cf/meta/llama-3.2-3b-instruct, @cf/meta-llama/llama-2-7b-chat-hf-lora, @cf/google/gemma-2b-it-lora and @cf/google/gemma-7b-it-lora; Cloudflare recommends @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 or @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3 for frontier model needs and @cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it or @cf/qwen/qwen3.8-27b for smaller ones. Other models, each with Cloudflare's replacement: @cf/myshell-ai/melotts (@cf/deepgram/aura-2-en); @cf/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0, @cf/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5-inpainting, @cf/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning and @cf/lykon/dreamshaper-8-lcm (@cf/black-forest-labs/flux-2-klein-9b); @cf/openai/whisper-tiny-en (@cf/deepgram/nova-3); @cf/llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf (@cf/moondream/moondream3.1-9B-A2B); @cf/google/embeddinggemma-300m (@cf/google/embeddinggemma-2, not yet available). Source ↗
Before: The 24 models could be called on Workers AI with no removal date; six of them (kimi-k2.6, kimi-k2.7-code, glm-5.2, glm-5.3-flash, deepseek-v4-flash-0731 and deepseek-v4-pro-0813) only on the Workers Paid plan or with prepaid AI Gateway credits.
After: Cloudflare's changelog post of 2026-11-05, "Planned model deprecations on Workers AI": "Update your apps to remove references to the models listed below before November 20, 2026. We originally stated these models would be deprecated on November 15, 2026, and have moved the deprecation date to November 20, 2026." and "Starting November 20, 2026, these models will stop returning responses. Requests to them will fail with an HTTP 410 Gone error and error code 5028."
Data correction - Cloudflare Workers AI's record described its per-model Neuron pricing, in place since February 2025, as a change on 2026-09-01. The 2026 change was three models leaving the Workers Free plan on 2026-07-28, now recorded as limits_reduced. Source ↗
Before: Recorded as pricing_restructured dated 2026-09-01
After: limits_reduced dated 2026-07-28, from Cloudflare's changelog
On 2026-07-28 Cloudflare took Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code and GLM-5.2 off the Workers Free plan; they now need the Workers Paid plan (or, from 2026-08-07, prepaid AI Gateway credits). Source ↗
Before: No plan restriction on Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code or GLM-5.2 (Workers AI pricing page, Internet Archive capture of 2026-07-27)
After: "Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code, and GLM-5.2 are no longer available on the Workers Free plan." (Cloudflare changelog, 2026-07-28)
How Cloudflare Workers AI compares against every one of the 27 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
Simulate, evaluate, and observe your AI agents — The 'OSS' tier is free forever for developers, small teams, and self-managed deployments. It includes features like a drop-in replacement, OTel compatibility, metrics & traces, built-in observability, budget management, and more.
Keyless Classic API: one image model and GPT-OSS 20B text, free, no sign-up, rate-limited per IP. Every other model needs an API key and Pollen, and free Pollen comes only from quests.
AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse. Every account starts with a Trial API key: calls made with it are free and limited to 1,000 API calls a month.
Free inference endpoints on build.nvidia.com: models marked Free Endpoint, including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, gpt-oss-20b, Gemma 4 31B and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, can be called at no cost. Their model IDs are deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash, z-ai/glm-5.3-flash, openai/gpt-oss-20b,…
Hetzner's experimental Inference API: an OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models, free while it stays experimental. Base URL: https://inference.hetzner.com/api/v1.
ML model hub. Since 2026-10-07, free accounts get no included Inference Providers credits: free users buy credits or upgrade to PRO to call Inference Providers, which serves 200+ models.
AI media gateway: one OpenAI-compatible API to image and video generation models from several providers, billed at each provider's price with no markup, platform fee or subscription. One model, FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8, is listed free per image ("Free to try", served through Fireworks AI).
LLM inference gateway. With a free token from dash.llm7.io: 1 request a second, 60 a minute, 250 an hour and 100,000 tokens per 24 hours, counting input and output tokens; LLM7 says free quotas may be reduced without notice.
Fast LLM inference on Groq's LPU hardware. Free plan: gpt-oss-20b, gpt-oss-120b and Qwen3.8 27B, each at 30 requests a minute, 1,000 requests and 200,000 tokens a day, plus Whisper speech-to-text at 2,000 requests a day.
Pay-as-you-go model inference. siliconflow.cn, run by a Beijing company, lists these models at no charge: the chat models Qwen3-8B, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (Free), Qwen3.5-4B, GLM-4-9B-0414, GLM-Z1-9B-0414, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B (Free) and Xing4.0-29B; the translation model Hunyuan-MT-7B; the OCR…
China-based GLM model API. The price list marks these models free: GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4-Flash-250414 and GLM-Z1-Flash (text); GLM-4.6V-Flash, GLM-4V-Flash and GLM-4.1V-Thinking-Flash (vision); CogView-3-Flash (image); CogVideoX-Flash (video).
Inference platform for open models, with serverless per-token pricing and on-demand GPU deployments billed per GPU second. Fireworks offers $1 in free credits to get started.
Ultra-fast LLM inference API — no permanent free tier. New accounts get $5 in free credits after adding a verified payment method, expiring 30 days after they are granted.
Since about 2026-11-05, Mistral's Free plan covers Vibe and Studio and does not include API access. Creating API keys and calling the API require billing activation and pay-as-you-go with prepaid credits.
Inference API for open-source models, billed per token. Together AI does not currently offer free trials; access requires a minimum $15 credit purchase for an organization's first purchase ($5 for later purchases), and the platform is fully prepaid.
MiniMax sells API access pay-as-you-go on platform.minimax.io. Its pricing pages list no free API allowance; one docs page mentions a free quota for new pay-as-you-go users but gives no amount.
Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs. Between October 26 and 27, 2026, Ollama replaced its Free plan, which included starter usage credits, with a $0 Pay as you go plan.
AI API platform. One model is priced Free in OpenAI's own table: the moderation model omni-moderation-latest.
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Yes, Cloudflare Workers AI offers a free tier: Free. Workers AI runs AI models on Cloudflare's global network. Every account gets 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge, reset daily at 00:00 UTC; on the Workers Free plan, requests beyond that fail until th...
What is Cloudflare Workers AI's free tier?
Cloudflare Workers AI's free tier is called "Free". Workers AI runs AI models on Cloudflare's global network. Every account gets 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge, reset daily at 00:00 UTC; on the Workers Free plan, requests beyond that fail until the reset. On the Workers Paid plan (from $5 per month), usage above 10,000 Neurons per day costs $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons. Eight models require the Workers Paid plan or prepaid AI Gateway credits: @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6, @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code, @cf/zai-org/glm-5.2, @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3, @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3-flash, @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731, @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 and @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813. Cloudflare removes 24 models from Workers AI on 2026-11-20, including six of those eight (all but glm-5.3 and deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017); they can be called until then, and from 2026-11-20 requests to them fail with HTTP 410 Gone (error 5028). On 2026-05-30, Cloudflare deprecated 18 models and told users to remove references to them: @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct, @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-awq, @cf/meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct, @cf/meta/llama-3-8b-instruct, @cf/meta/llama-3-8b-instruct-awq, @hf/meta-llama/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct, @cf/meta/llama-2-7b-chat-int8, @cf/meta/llama-2-7b-chat-fp16, @cf/mistral/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1, @hf/mistral/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2, @hf/google/gemma-7b-it, @cf/google/gemma-3-12b-it, @hf/nousresearch/hermes-2-pro-mistral-7b, @cf/microsoft/phi-2, @cf/defog/sqlcoder-7b-2, @cf/unum/uform-gen2-qwen-500m, @cf/facebook/bart-large-cnn and @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5. On 2026-10-15, Cloudflare's model catalog still listed @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8, @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast and the -lora variants, but no longer listed @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fast; llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8 and the -lora variants are among the 24 models removed on 2026-11-20. Cloudflare's suggested replacements were @cf/zai-org/glm-4.7-flash, @cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6, which is itself removed on 2026-11-20. Since 2026-05-30, requests to @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 go to @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6, which costs more and requires the Workers Paid plan or prepaid AI Gateway credits; without them, requests get HTTP 403 (error 5035). Workers AI's free allowance on the Workers Free plan needs no credit card. (From https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-ai/, read 2026-10-22.) Cloudflare prices models in Neurons per million tokens. @cf/openai/gpt-oss-20b costs 18,182 Neurons per million input tokens and 27,273 per million output tokens. @cf/openai/gpt-oss-120b costs 31,818 and 68,182 Neurons respectively. @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast costs 26,668 and 204,805 Neurons. @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8-fast costs 4,119 and 34,868 Neurons. 10,000 Neurons pay for about 367,000 output tokens of gpt-oss-20b, 147,000 of gpt-oss-120b, 49,000 of llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast, or 287,000 of llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8-fast, not counting input tokens. Other models have their own rates on Cloudflare's pricing page. (From https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/, read 2026-11-12.) Workers AI is subject to Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement. The agreement does not restrict commercial use. (From https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/data-usage/, read 2026-10-29.) Cloudflare does not create or train the third-party AI models in Workers AI. Each model may be subject to license terms from its provider. (From https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/data-usage/, read 2026-10-29.) Cloudflare does not use Workers AI inputs or outputs to train models. It does not retain them after a standard inference request, unless you enable a feature that stores them, such as logging or caching in AI Gateway. (From https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/data-usage/, read 2026-10-29.) Cloudflare AI Search is a managed search service over your own content. Every account gets 5 million ingestion tokens, 10 GB-month of storage, 1,000 semantic queries and 1,000 full-text queries a month. Embedding and reranking calls are billed as AI Search usage and do not appear on the Workers AI bill. (From https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/platform/limits-pricing/, read 2026-11-03.)
Is Cloudflare Workers AI's free tier reliable?
Cloudflare Workers AI's free tier requires caution because of one specific recorded change, on 2026-07-28: On 2026-07-28 Cloudflare took Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code and GLM-5.2 off the Workers Free plan; they now need the Workers Paid plan (or, from 2026-08-07, prepaid AI Gateway credits). Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-28-models-require-workers-paid/
Is Cloudflare Workers AI's free tier good for production?
Cloudflare Workers AI's free tier is usable for prototyping and development, but we rate it caution because of one recorded limit reduction, on 2026-07-28. Consider alternatives with more stable pricing for critical services.
What changed in Cloudflare Workers AI's pricing?
Cloudflare Workers AI has had 2 recorded pricing changes. Most recently: On 2026-07-28 Cloudflare took Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code and GLM-5.2 off the Workers Free plan; they now need the Workers Paid plan (or, from 2026-08-07, prepaid AI Gateway credits). Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-28-models-require-workers-paid/ (2026-07-28).
What are the best free alternatives to Cloudflare Workers AI?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 27 free alternatives to Cloudflare Workers AI in AI / ML, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 12 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 6 are demoted with the reason named, 9 are listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow Cloudflare Workers AI's free tier?
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.
What category is Cloudflare Workers AI in?
Cloudflare Workers AI is categorized under AI / ML on AgentDeals. We list 27 other AI / ML services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.