Cloudflare Workers AI (Inference)
- Free allowance
- 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge on both the Free and the Paid Workers plan.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate10,000 Neurons per day, reset at 00:00 UTC; further operations fail with an error past it; 300 requests per minute for Text Generation, a default per task type, unless the model requires the Workers Paid plan; models that require it...
- Evidence
- documented10 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 | 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge on both the Free and the Paid Workers plan. The page states the daily figure; the monthly figure of 300,000 and the token equivalents below are derived arithmetic on it, not vendor statements unit tokens; metered on request-count; billing is in Neurons. The page prints a per-token price beside each model as an equivalent, so a single USD per million tokens figure for Workers AI does not exist. The free-plan input rate runs from 1,542 to 60,000 neurons per million tokens across 31 models, a factor of 38.9, so the token count behind one allowance is model-dependent: 194.6 million a month at the cheapest and 5.0 million at the dearest Derived figures and their bases: 300,000 = 10,000 x 30 days; 122.1 million input tokens = 300,000 / 2,457 x 1,000,000; 4.07 million a day = that divided by 30 |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | email a Cloudflare account; the Workers Free plan is enough for the daily allocation |
| Egress | not published |
| Interface | rest |
| Tooling | any OpenAI-compatible client; curl against POST {base}/chat/completions |
| Composes with | pairs with a Cloudflare Worker already deployed; the 300,000-neuron monthly allowance is the scarce link, and it covers workload |
| Reliability | eight named models require a paid billing method and fail on a Free plan |
| Notes | 300,000 Neurons a month, not 375 million: 10,000 a day times 30. At 2,457 neurons per million input tokens that is 122.1 million input tokens a month and 4.07 million a day. The output half alone is 2.3 times it. Every figure beyond the page's own 10,000 a day is arithmetic on it and is labelled as such in free_tier.stated. |
| Evidence note | documented the allocation, the reset and the paid-only model list are quoted from the vendor pages read. No call was made, because that needs an account. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 10
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/ | 10,000 Neurons per day free, USD 0.011 per 1,000 Neurons above it on Workers Paid, all limits reset daily at 00:00 UTC, and eight named models require a paid billing method including @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 and @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3-flash |
| 2026-10-22 | developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/ | per-model neuron rates over 39 text-generation models, of which 31 are reachable on the free plan; input runs from 1,542 neurons per million tokens on @cf/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro to 60,000 on @cf/qwen/qwq-32b, and the eight paid-only ids run to 127,273 on @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3 |
| 2026-10-22 | developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/limits/ | Text Generation is 300 requests per minute, 'unless the model requires the Workers Paid plan'; Image Classification, Object Detection and Text Embeddings are 3000; Summarization 1500; Text Classification 2000; and the eight paid models are 20 requests per minute on standard billing or 50 with prepaid AI Gateway credits |
| 2026-10-28 | developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/ | the free allocation is 10,000 Neurons per day, limits reset daily at 00:00 UTC, and operations past a limit fail with an error |
| 2026-10-28 | developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/limits/ | the paid-model limits are 20 requests per minute on standard billing and 50 with prepaid AI Gateway credits, per account and per model |
| 2026-10-28 | developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/ | the page names the models that require a paid billing method, kimi-k2.6 among them, and lists eight ids |
| 2026-10-28 | developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/limits/ | Text Generation is 300 requests per minute by default per task type, excluding models that require the Workers Paid plan |
| 2026-10-28 | developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/limits/ | the limits page lists per-task-type request rates, 720 for speech recognition, 3000 for image classification, 1500 for summarization and 2000 for text classification |
| 2026-10-28 | developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/account/create-accoun | creating a Cloudflare account asks for an email and a password, then sends an email to verify the address |
| 2026-10-28 | developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/ | the Workers Free plan carries the 10,000 Neurons per day free allocation |
Unknown values 3
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Corrections
- 2026-10-22 Corrected on 2026-10-22: inference/cloudflare-workers-ai