Cloudflare Workers AI
Shares rank 11 of 14 inference providers by recommenders
People recommend it as fast, cheap and simple to set up; the common caveat is slowness for interactive use.
People recommend it as fast, cheap and simple to set up; the common caveat is slowness for interactive use.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 9
- approval share
- 44%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Slow to add latest models
“They seem to be slow on offering the latest options, a number of them are MIA”
Comment from 6 Jun 2026 in “Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers” “But I think it didn't catch up and they have there very old models.”
Comment from 17 Nov 2025 in “Replicate is joining Cloudflare” “they had quite limited number of models and choices so far”
Comment from 17 Nov 2025 in “Replicate is joining Cloudflare” Data privacy and isolation concerns
“Cloudflare not providing ZDR on their inference is the biggest public indicator”
Comment from 4 Aug 2026 in “Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale” “Cloudflare configuration error leaked data between user sessions”
Comment from 27 Oct 2026 in “Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)”
Other inference providers people recommend
The four most recommended other inference providers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | 67 | 19 | 78% | 11 | — | Approved |
| DeepInfra | 36 | 11 | 77% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Together AI | 20 | 7 | 74% | 9 | — | Approved |
| fal.ai | 19 | 7 | 73% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Cloudflare Workers AIThis page | 7 | 9 | 44% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
15 of the 17 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Even cloudflare being unable to deploy this technology correctly”
“Cloudflare is stopping to be cool, this is the start.”
“Cloudflare configuration error leaked data between user sessions”
“I appreciate the ownership and clear explanation of why their testing did not catch this bug.”
“Cloudflare worker AI is verrrrry slow for user interactive use cases.”
“I was never able to get an answer on why I was billed for their confusing neuron usage”
“I'm a big fan of Cloudflare products.”
“Cloudflare not providing ZDR on their inference is the biggest public indicator”
“They seem to be slow on offering the latest options, a number of them are MIA”
“It doesn't seem that compelling to me.”
“It's fast, cheap and simple to set up.”
“Been running Kimi K2.5 for a day, works well enough for my workflow”
“switching costs go thru the roof”
“they had quite limited number of models and choices so far”
“But I think it didn't catch up and they have there very old models.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.