Cheaper Inference

Cloudflare AI Gateway is an intelligent control plane for AI applications, built to connect to any model, dynamically route requests, and manage usage, billing, and logs from one unified gateway. It gives teams visibility and control over AI apps by connecting applications to AI Gateway, gathering insights on how people are using the application through analytics and logging, and controlling how the application scales with caching, rate limiting, request retries, model fallback, and more. AI Gateway helps reduce cost and latency by caching responses and reducing redundant API calls, so frequent requests can be served directly from Cloudflare’s cache instead of the original model provider. It improves reliability with dynamic controls that configure how and when model provider APIs are called based on attributes, fallbacks, latency, cost, or availability, with routing rules that can be adjusted from the dashboard or API without redeployments or downtime.

OpenRouter is an AI model routing platform that gives developers access to hundreds of models through a single unified API. It connects users with models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, xAI, and many others. The platform supports text, image, video, and audio generation while allowing developers to use one API key and a consistent interface across providers. OpenRouter can route requests based on price, performance, and availability, with fallback options that help maintain service when a provider experiences downtime. It also offers configurable data policies so organizations can control which providers receive prompts and how requests are handled. Developers can purchase credits, choose from more than 500 active models across over 80 providers, and integrate OpenRouter using an OpenAI-compatible API.