{"rid":"compute/cloudflare-workers-ai","card":{"rid":"compute/cloudflare-workers-ai","eid":"cloudflare","topic":"compute","slug":"cloudflare-workers-ai","provider":"Cloudflare Workers AI","url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/","domain":"cloudflare.com","category":"inference API","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"request-rate","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-21","n_evidence":10,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"A perpetual daily allowance of 10,000 Neurons on the Workers Free plan: 'Our free allocation allows anyone to use a total of 10,000 Neurons per day at no cha...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":10},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"cloudflare-workers-ai","provider":"Cloudflare Workers AI","url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/","category":"inference API","free_tier":{"stated":"A perpetual daily allowance of 10,000 Neurons on the Workers Free plan: 'Our free allocation allows anyone to use a total of 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge.' Limits reset daily at 00:00 UTC. Text generation runs at 300 requests a minute on the free plan, ten times Groq's 30 rpm. The model choice changes the yield by a factor of 12: on the same 10,000 Neurons, @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct yields 133K output tokens a day at 75,147 Neurons per 1M, while @cf/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8 yields 328K at 30,475 per 1M and @cf/meta/llama-3.2-1b-instruct yields 548K at 18,252 per 1M. Eight frontier models are excluded from the free lane because they require a paid billing method: kimi-k2.6, kimi-k2.7-code, glm-5.2, glm-5.3, glm-5.3-flash, deepseek-v4-flash-0731, deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 and deepseek-v4-pro-0813.","unit":"minutes","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"recurring-daily-allowance"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"the only free lane here with both a perpetual daily meter and 300 rpm: it pairs with a free Cloudflare Worker as the scheduler, so a nightly batch runs inside the free tier with no machine to keep awake.","limits":[{"kind":"request-rate","value":"the daily Neuron pool binds long before the 300 rpm does, and the model choice sets the size of the pool: at qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8 rates 10,000 Neurons a day is about 328K output tokens, or about 9.8M a month, where the same allowance spent on llama-3.1-8b-instruct non-fp8 is 133K a day. A single request at the 30B model's context limit can spend a whole day.","source":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/"}],"limits_note":"the daily Neuron pool binds long before the 300 rpm does, and the model choice sets the size of the pool: at qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8 rates 10,000 Neurons a day is about 328K output tokens, or about 9.8M a month, where the same allowance spent on llama-3.1-8b-instruct non-fp8 is 133K a day. A single request at the 30B model's context limit can spend a whole day.","binding":"request-rate","binding_note":"the daily Neuron pool binds long before the 300 rpm does, and the model choice sets the size of the pool: at qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8 rates 10,000 Neurons a day is about 328K output tokens, or about 9.8M a month, where the same allowance spent on llama-3.1-8b-instruct non-fp8 is 133K a day. A single request at the 30B model's context limit can spend a whole day.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Our free allocation allows anyone to use a total of 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge' and '$0.011 per 1,000 Neurons', quoted"},{"url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"@cf/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8 at 4625 neurons per M input and 30475 per M output against $0.051 and $0.335 per M tokens; @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct at 25608 and 75147 neurons against $0.282 and $0.827, quoted"},{"url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Some models require a paid billing method' listing the eight excluded models, quoted"},{"url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/limits/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Text Generation 300 requests per minute; paid-plan models 20 rpm on standard Workers AI billing, quoted"},{"url":"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/test/ai/run/@cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct","date":"2026-10-22","proved":null},{"url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted table: CPU time per HTTP request, Workers Free 10 ms, Workers Paid 5 min default 30 seconds; CPU time per Cron Trigger, Free 10 ms"},{"url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted: 'The average Worker uses approximately 2.2 ms per request. Heavier workloads that handle authentication, server-side rendering, or parse large payloads typically use 10-20 ms'"},{"url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/troubleshooting/http-status-codes/cloudflare-1xxx-errors/error-1102/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted: Error 1102 means the Worker 'has exceeded its CPU time limit or memory limit'; resolution requires the Paid plan to raise the limit"},{"url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted: 'Each isolate has some built-in flexibility to allow for cases where your Worker infrequently runs over the configured limit. If your Worker starts hitting the limit consistently, its execution will be terminated'"},{"url":"https://community.cloudflare.com/t/what-happens-when-the-cpu-time-is-more-than-10ms/434689","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"community answer on the burst behaviour: small bursts over 10 ms are allowed, and a worker that goes beyond is shut down [date precision: year precision] [re-read 2026-10-22]"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"All arithmetic is an estimate and not a vendor figure, but the conversion factor is checkable against the vendor's own two columns: USD 0.011 per 1,000 Neurons is USD 11 per 1M Neurons, and 34,868 Neurons per 1M output tokens for llama-3.1-8b-fp8-fast times USD 11 per 1M Neurons is USD 0.384, exactly the price printed beside it. The same check holds for qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8 (30,475 x USD 11 / 1M = USD 0.335). So Neurons are a linear repricing of GPU seconds and the free allowance has a fixed dollar value of 10,000 x USD 0.011 / 1,000 = USD 0.11 a day, or USD 3.30 a month, whatever model is chosen. The model choice therefore buys tokens, not dollars: 328K output tokens a day on qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8 is about 9.8M a month, and 548K on llama-3.2-1b is about 16.4M a month at visibly lower quality. Verdict is qualifies-with-caveat because no probe was run: the REST endpoint needs a real account id and an API token, and the keyless probe against a placeholder account id returned 404 from the origin, which establishes only that the route requires a credential.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"perpetual-free-allowance","free_tier_kind":"recurring-daily-allowance","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":300,"unit":"requests","per":"minute","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.evidence[4].proved","withheld"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}