Cloudflare AI Gateway vs OpenRouter
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Cloudflare AI Gateway
LLM proxy with free caching, rate limits and spend caps across provide...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Analytics, caching, rate limiting, spend limits and two DLP profiles free on all plans; new accounts' logs: 200,000 events a day, 3-day retention | Free plan: 25+ free models, 20 requests a minute and 50 a day (1,000 a day after buying $10 of credits) |
| Paid from | Free core; logs, Logpush, Guardrails cost via Workers Paid ($5/mo) or usage; 5% fee on credits | Provider list price plus a 5.5% fee on credit purchases (8% on Business) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Cloudflare, Inc. | — |
| Verdict | AI Gateway puts a free control layer in front of LLM API calls: one endpoint for many providers, with token and cost analytics, exact-match caching, rate limiting, spend limits, retries and model fallback. Inference is p... |
OpenRouter removes the chore of holding a dozen provider keys and invoices: one OpenAI-compatible endpoint reaches more than 450 models, fails over when a provider stalls, and makes it quick to compare two models or swap... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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