These tools integrates with

Cloudflare AI GatewayvsOpenAI API

LLM gateway with caching, analytics, and rate limiting versus GPT-5 era models, embeddings, and Responses API from OpenAI

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Choose Cloudflare AI Gateway when…

  • You're already deploying on Cloudflare Workers or Pages
  • You want LLM caching and cost analytics with zero infrastructure overhead
  • You need a lightweight gateway without running LiteLLM yourself

Choose OpenAI API when…

  • You need the broadest ecosystem and most integrations
  • GPT-4 or o-series reasoning models are required
  • Assistants API, fine-tuning, or batch API are needed

Side-by-side comparison

Field
Cloudflare AI Gateway
OpenAI API
Category
LLM Infrastructure
LLM Infrastructure
Type
Commercial
Commercial
Free Tier
✓ Yes
✗ No
Pricing Plans
Free: FreePro: $5/mo
API: Per token
GitHub Stars
Health

Cloudflare AI Gateway

LLM gateway from Cloudflare that sits in front of any AI provider and adds request caching, cost analytics, rate limiting, and fallback routing. Zero-config for teams already on Cloudflare Workers. Free tier available on all Cloudflare plans.

OpenAI API

API access to GPT-5, GPT-5.5, o3/o4 reasoning models, and the Responses API; plus embeddings, image, audio, and Realtime endpoints. The most widely deployed LLM API in production.

Shared Connections2 tools both integrate with

Only Cloudflare AI Gateway (1)

OpenAI API

Only OpenAI API (37)

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