Comparison

Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Vercel 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
Vercel AI Gateway42
Score
Vioscale score
Cloudflare AI Gateway81 / 100low · 37%
Vercel AI Gateway42 / 100low · 41%
Pricing
Free tier
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway
Model
Cloudflare AI Gatewayfreemium
Vercel AI Gatewaycommercial
Price level
Cloudflare AI Gatewaylow
Vercel AI Gatewayunknown
Starting price
Cloudflare AI Gateway$0.05
Vercel AI Gateway
Transparent
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway
Integrations
Count
Cloudflare AI Gateway8
Vercel AI Gateway7
Security
Hipaa
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway
Market
Availability
Cloudflare AI GatewayAvailable worldwide

Capabilities

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

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

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

Vercel AI Gateway

A unified API gateway that routes requests across multiple AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI, Gemini, and others), providing automatic failover, intelligent routing based on cost and latency, and consolidated billing with zero platform fees.

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 verify ↗

Vercel AI Gateway

Usage-based

Usage-based pricing with no platform markup; invoicing available with no payment processing fees

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
Vercel AI Gateway
CLI
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Vercel 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

Vercel AI Gateway

7 total - 4 not shared
  • SpaceXAI
  • Cohere
  • AssistLoop
  • Vercel AI SDK
Independently observed

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