- Free allowance
- No inference allowance of its own: the core features (dashboard analytics, caching, rate limiting) are free on all plans, while inference is billed by the upstream provider on the caller's own key or through Unified Billing credits bought with a payment method
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- emailcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedUnified Billing needs credits bought with a payment method; without them the caller supplies a provider key
- Evidence
- documented9 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-29checked 2026-10-29 (live); stale on 2026-11-29
| Free tier | no inference allowance of its own: the core features (dashboard analytics, caching, rate limiting) are free on all plans, while inference is billed by the upstream provider on the caller's own key or through Unified Billing credits bought with a payment method unit none; metered on none; a 5% fee applies to credits bought through Unified Billing; provider token rates pass through at no markup |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) Unified Billing needs credits bought with a payment method; without them the caller supplies a provider key source
- volume-quota 100,000 logs total across all gateways on Workers Free (Legacy Logs) source
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| Binding | write-gated the gate is the payment method for credits, not a quota; the gateway adds no free tokens |
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| Identity | email the Cloudflare account sign-up form takes an email address and a password; 'all it takes is a Cloudflare account' for the free core features; buying Unified Billing credits needs a payment method |
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| Egress | not published |
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| Interface | rest provider-native endpoints that forward to the provider, with caching, rate limiting and analytics in between |
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| Tooling | any provider SDK pointed at the gateway base URL; credentials resolve in the order request key, stored key (BYOK), Unified Billing |
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| Composes with | pair with a provider that has its own free key, such as inference/google-gemini-api or inference/cloudflare-workers-ai, to add caching and rate limiting at no charge |
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| Reliability | the account's credit balance can go negative, and Cloudflare then charges the payment method on file for the outstanding amount |
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| Notes | The Workers AI free allocation is a separate offer recorded at inference/cloudflare-workers-ai; the gateway can front it. |
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| Evidence note | documented the free core features and the credit requirement are quoted from the vendor pages; no request was made |
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