# Cloudflare Workers AI

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Cloudflare Workers AI and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as fast, cheap and simple to set up; the common caveat is slowness for interactive use.

## What people warn about

- Slow to add latest models (3 comments): "They seem to be slow on offering the latest options, a number of them are MIA" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426192)) "But I think it didn't catch up and they have there very old models." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955277)) "they had quite limited number of models and choices so far" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955999))
- Data privacy and isolation concerns (2 comments): "Cloudflare not providing ZDR on their inference is the biggest public indicator" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163373)) "Cloudflare configuration error leaked data between user sessions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253891))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Fireworks AI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fireworks.md): 67 recommend
- [Novita AI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/novita.md): 13 recommend
- [Chutes AI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/chutes.md): 6 recommend
- [Telnyx Inference API](https://hackerapproved.com/p/telnyx-inference-api.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-ai/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Cloudflare Workers AI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-workers-ai/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).