Comparison

Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Envoy AI Gateway

On the evidence we track, Cloudflare AI Gateway leads this comparison with a composite score of 81/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Cloudflare AI Gateway81

Envoy AI Gateway49

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Cloudflare AI GatewayLeader	Envoy AI Gateway
Vioscale score	81 / 100low · 37%	49 / 100low · 28%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	freemium	commercial
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	free
Starting pricepricing.starting_price	$0.05	-
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	-
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	8	18
Security
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	-	Count: 1 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fenvoyproxy%2Fai-gateway&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 1 · Max severity: MODERATE
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	-	0
Github starsadoption.github_stars	-	1,961
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	-	65
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	-	11
Historyrelease.history	-	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	-	Apache-2.0
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	-	Go
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide	-

Score

Vioscale score

Cloudflare AI Gateway81 / 100low · 37%

Envoy AI Gateway49 / 100low · 28%

Pricing

Free tier

Cloudflare AI Gateway✓

Envoy AI Gateway✓

Model

Cloudflare AI Gatewayfreemium

Envoy AI Gatewaycommercial

Price level

Cloudflare AI Gatewaylow

Envoy AI Gatewayfree

Starting price

Cloudflare AI Gateway$0.05

Envoy AI Gateway–

Transparent

Cloudflare AI Gateway✓

Envoy AI Gateway–

Integrations

Count

Cloudflare AI Gateway8

Envoy AI Gateway18

Security

Vulnerabilities

Cloudflare AI Gateway–

Envoy AI GatewayCount: 1 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fenvoyproxy%2Fai-gateway&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 1 · Max severity: MODERATE

Adoption

Dependent repos

Cloudflare AI Gateway–

Envoy AI Gateway0

Github stars

Cloudflare AI Gateway–

Envoy AI Gateway1,961

Activity

Commits last 30d

Cloudflare AI Gateway–

Envoy AI Gateway65

Release

Cadence days

Cloudflare AI Gateway–

Envoy AI Gateway11

History

Cloudflare AI Gateway–

Envoy AI Gateway20 items

License

Spdx

Cloudflare AI Gateway–

Envoy AI GatewayApache-2.0

Language

Primary

Cloudflare AI Gateway–

Envoy AI GatewayGo

Market

Availability

Cloudflare AI GatewayAvailable worldwide

Envoy AI Gateway–

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for llm gateways. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Llm Gateways
Capability	Cloudflare AI Gateway	Envoy AI Gateway
Capabilities
Openai compatible API	✓	-
Automatic failover	✓	-
Routing strategy	-	-
Caching	Exact	-
Virtual key management	-	-
Budget spend controls	-	-
Rate limiting	✓	-
Guardrails moderation	Built in	-
Request cost observability	✓	-
Streaming support	-	-
Deployment model	Managed SaaS	-
Open source	✗	-
Pricing model	Usage based saas	-

Capabilities

Openai compatible API

Cloudflare AI Gateway✓

Envoy AI Gateway-

Automatic failover

Cloudflare AI Gateway✓

Envoy AI Gateway-

Routing strategy

Cloudflare AI Gateway-

Envoy AI Gateway-

Caching

Cloudflare AI GatewayExact

Envoy AI Gateway-

Virtual key management

Cloudflare AI Gateway-

Envoy AI Gateway-

Budget spend controls

Cloudflare AI Gateway-

Envoy AI Gateway-

Rate limiting

Cloudflare AI Gateway✓

Envoy AI Gateway-

Guardrails moderation

Cloudflare AI GatewayBuilt in

Envoy AI Gateway-

Request cost observability

Cloudflare AI Gateway✓

Envoy AI Gateway-

Streaming support

Cloudflare AI Gateway-

Envoy AI Gateway-

Deployment model

Cloudflare AI GatewayManaged SaaS

Envoy AI Gateway-

Open source

Cloudflare AI Gateway✗

Envoy AI Gateway-

Pricing model

Cloudflare AI GatewayUsage based saas

Envoy AI Gateway-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Cloudflare AI Gateway

Leader

A platform providing visibility into AI API usage through analytics and logging, with controls for caching, rate limiting, and request management across multiple AI providers.

Independently observed

Envoy AI Gateway

Provides routing and traffic management between applications and generative AI services, built on the open source Envoy Gateway. Supports multiple AI provider integrations and OpenAI-compatible APIs.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Cloudflare AI Gateway

Leader

from $0.05/million requestsHybridFree tier

Free core features; usage-based pricing for requests on paid plans. Inference costs passed through at provider rates with no markup.

FreeFree
- Dashboard analytics
- Caching
- Rate limiting
- Request retries
- Model fallback
- +1 more
Workers Paid$0.05 per million requests after 10M/month included
- All free features
- 10M logs per gateway
- Logpush
- DLP with full profiles (if Zero Trust included)
EnterpriseContact sales

as of 2026-08-21verify ↗

Envoy AI Gateway

Open sourceFree tier

as of 2026-08-19verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Cloudflare AI Gateway	Envoy AI Gateway
WebPlatforms	✓	✗
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✗
Self-hostedDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Cloudflare AI Gateway✓

Envoy AI Gateway✗

CLI

Cloudflare AI Gateway✓

Envoy AI Gateway✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Cloudflare AI Gateway✓

Envoy AI Gateway✗

Self-hosted

Cloudflare AI Gateway✗

Envoy AI Gateway✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (3)

OpenAI
Anthropic
Google Gemini

Cloudflare AI Gateway

Leader

10 total - 7 not shared

Workers AI
Vectorize
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Third-party LLM models
Replicate
Cloudflare Workers
Agent Memory

Independently observed

Envoy AI Gateway

18 total - 15 not shared

AWS Bedrock
Azure OpenAI
Google Vertex AI
Groq
Together AI
Mistral
Cohere
DeepInfra
DeepSeek
Hunyuan
Tencent LLM Knowledge Engine
SambaNova
Grok
OIDC
cert-manager

Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.