
Cloudflare Workers AI Has a Free API — Run LLMs at the Edge Without Paying OpenAI
You're paying OpenAI $20/month for API access. Cloudflare gives you the same models for free. Not a toy. Not a demo. Production-ready AI inference at the edge — Llama 3, Stable Diffusion, Whisper, embeddings, and 50+ more models. No GPU. No Docker. No infrastructure. One curl command. What You Get for Free Cloudflare Workers AI free tier includes: 10,000 neurons/day (enough for ~100-500 requests depending on model) 50+ models : text generation, image generation, speech-to-text, translation, embeddings Edge deployment : runs on Cloudflare's global network (300+ cities) No cold starts : models are always warm No credit card required Quick Start: Text Generation with Llama 3 curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ { ACCOUNT_ID } /ai/run/@cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct \ -H "Authorization: Bearer {API_TOKEN}" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "messages": [ {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Explain WebSockets in
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