Comparison

Cloudflare AI Gateway vs MLflow

On the evidence we track, MLflow leads this comparison with a composite score of 70/100. 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 Gateway65
★MLflow70
Score
vioscaleAI score
Cloudflare AI Gateway65 / 100low · 35%
MLflow70 / 100medium · 67%
Pricing
Free tier
Cloudflare AI Gateway✓
MLflow✓
Model
Cloudflare AI Gatewayfreemium
Price level
Cloudflare AI Gatewaylow
MLflowfree
Starting price
Cloudflare AI Gateway$0.05
MLflow–
Transparent
Cloudflare AI Gateway✓
MLflow✓
Integrations
Count
Cloudflare AI Gateway6
MLflow9
Adoption
Dependent repos
Cloudflare AI Gateway–
MLflow5,089
Github stars
Cloudflare AI Gateway–
MLflow28,260
Package downloads weekly
Cloudflare AI Gateway–
MLflow9,993,245
Activity
Commits last 30d
Cloudflare AI Gateway–
MLflow100
Release
Cadence days
Cloudflare AI Gateway–
MLflow9
History
Cloudflare AI Gateway–
MLflow20 items
License
Spdx
Cloudflare AI Gateway–
Language
Primary
Cloudflare AI Gateway–
MLflowPython
Market
Availability
Cloudflare AI GatewayAvailable worldwide
MLflow–
Content
Faq
Cloudflare AI Gateway5 items
MLflow6 items

Capabilities

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

Capabilities
Openai compatible API
Cloudflare AI Gateway✓
MLflow✓
Automatic failover
Cloudflare AI Gateway✓
MLflow-
Routing strategy
Cloudflare AI Gateway-
MLflow-
Caching
Cloudflare AI GatewayExact
MLflow-
Virtual key management
Cloudflare AI Gateway-
MLflow-
Budget spend controls
Cloudflare AI Gateway-
MLflow✓
Rate limiting
Cloudflare AI Gateway✓
MLflow✓
Guardrails moderation
Cloudflare AI GatewayBuilt in
MLflowBuilt in
Request cost observability
Cloudflare AI Gateway✓
MLflow✓
Streaming support
Cloudflare AI Gateway-
MLflow✓
Deployment model
Cloudflare AI GatewayManaged SaaS
MLflowSelf hosted
Open source
Cloudflare AI Gateway✗
MLflow✓
Pricing model
Cloudflare AI GatewayUsage based saas
MLflowfree_open_source

What each one is

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

Cloudflare AI Gateway

An intermediary service that routes AI model requests through Cloudflare's network to provide visibility, caching, rate limiting, cost tracking, and data loss prevention. It enables organizations to observe and control AI traffic without modifying their existing tools or coding agents.

Independently observed

MLflow

Leader

A comprehensive platform that helps teams debug, evaluate, monitor, and optimize production AI applications. Provides experiment tracking, prompt management, model deployment, systematic evaluation tools, and a unified API gateway for managing access to multiple LLM providers with cost controls.

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

from $0.05/million requestsHybridFree tier

Free for core features (caching, rate limiting, analytics). Paid log storage and Logpush available on Workers Paid plan.

  • FreeFree
    • dashboard analytics
    • caching
    • rate limiting
    • DLP scanning
  • Workers Paid$0.05 per million requests
    • 10M log storage per gateway
    • Logpush available
as of verify ↗

MLflow

Leader
Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Cloudflare AI Gateway✓
MLflow✓
CLI
Cloudflare AI Gateway✗
MLflow✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Cloudflare AI Gateway✓
MLflow✓
Self-hosted
Cloudflare AI Gateway✗
MLflow✓
On-premise
Cloudflare AI Gateway✗
MLflow✓

Integrations

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

In common (5)
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Google Gemini
  • Claude Code
  • OpenAI Codex

Cloudflare AI Gateway

18 total - 13 not shared
  • Workers AI
  • Vectorize
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • Third-party LLM models
  • Replicate
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Agent Memory
  • Cloudflare Workers AI
  • Cloudflare Vectorize
  • Claude Desktop
  • GitHub Copilot CLI
  • OpenCode
  • Pi
Independently observed

MLflow

Leader
32 total - 27 not shared
  • Databricks
  • AWS S3
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Azure Storage
  • AzureML
  • Kubernetes
  • LangChain
  • Pydantic AI
  • Anthropic Claude
  • SAP AI Core
  • JFrog
  • Aliyun
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MSSQL
  • Gemini
  • Ollama
  • OpenClaw
  • Qwen Code
  • LiteLLM
  • Amazon S3
  • OpenTelemetry/OTLP
  • OpenAI-compatible endpoints
  • OpenTelemetry
  • +3 more
Independently observed
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