2 categories · RankedCloudflare AI Gateway
Cloudflare AI Gateway is a gateway from Cloudflare that sits between applications and AI providers, so teams can observe and control their AI applications · cloudflare.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Portkey is first at 36%.
LiteLLM is first at 36%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Bifrost is first at 23%.
Why models recommend it
“For most budget-conscious companies, I'd start with Cloudflare AI Gateway using your own provider API keys (BYOK).”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“if you already use Cloudflare and want a low-friction managed option; it can be cost-effective, but it's less of a full multi-provider control plane”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Ideal if you already use Cloudflare. It offers powerful DDoS protection, rate limiting, and caching at the network edge.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · alternative
“Choose Cloudflare AI Gateway if requests already run through Cloudflare and edge caching is valuable.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare AI Gateway, over the 102 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98 | 42 | Compare → | |
| 76 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 74 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 63 | 24 | Compare → | |
| 61 | 2 | View → | |
| 29 | 0 | View → | |
| 26 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Cloudflare AI Gateway →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cloudflare AI Gateway's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- your AI applications
- Price stated
- Available on all plans
- Free plan or trial
- beta
- Integrations
- 3
- Customers named
- Flexport
- Also from Cloudflare
- Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for Families, Cloudflare API Gateway, Cloudflare API Security, Cloudflare API Shield, Cloudflare Access, Cloudflare Access / Cloudflare One and 43 more
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 96 of the 102 answers that named Cloudflare AI Gateway and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
321 of the 321 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare AI Gateway came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |