2026 comparison

RouterPlus vs Cloudflare AI Gateway

Cloudflare AI Gateway adds analytics, caching and rate limits in front of provider accounts, and charges 5% on credits when Cloudflare bills your inference. RouterPlus bills each provider's price with no fee line, and adds reserved capacity and sourced providers.

Cloudflare AI Gateway

// 5% on Unified Billing credits
const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/{account}/{gateway}/compat",
  apiKey: process.env.CF_API_TOKEN,
});

RouterPlus

// provider price, no fee line
const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.routerplus.com/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.ROUTERPLUS_API_KEY,
});

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0%¹fee on credits; you pay each provider's listed price
1 wk–12 mo²terms for capacity reserved across providers

Feature by feature

Feature	Cloudflare AI Gateway	RouterPlus
Buying inference	Partly5% fee on Unified Billing credits ($105 for $100)³	YesProvider's price, no per-token markup, no fee line¹
Routes on	PartlyModel aliases and dynamic routes you build⁴	YesYour evals + your production traffic
Capacity	NoNot on its pricing page⁵	YesDedicated endpoints under contract, 1 week to 12 months⁶
Token pricing	NoProvider list price, passed through³	YesNegotiated, shopped across providers
Provider sourcing	NoYou bring provider keys or buy credits³	YesWe find, load-test and contract providers for you

Cloudflare AI Gateway facts from its own pricing and docs, checked November 5, 2026.

Where RouterPlus pulls ahead

01
No fee on credits
Cloudflare adds 5% when you buy Unified Billing credits. RouterPlus credits pay each provider's listed price, with no fee line.¹
No per-token markup
02
Capacity that's yours
When shared capacity runs short, RouterPlus reserves throughput across providers on one contract.⁶
Terms from 1 week to 12 months
03
Providers, sourced for you
We find providers, load-test them on your traffic, negotiate the price and keep a backup lined up.
Teams tried 3–4 providers before us and kept our first match

Pricing

As published, checked November 5, 2026.

Cloudflare AI Gateway

Free core, 5% on credits

Analytics, caching and rate limiting free on all plans⁵
Unified Billing: 5% fee on credits, card payment only⁵
Logs and guardrails billed on Workers pricing⁵

RouterPlus

Provider price, no fee line

Prepaid credits at each provider's listed price, no per-token markup¹
0% when you bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure or Bedrock account⁷
Reserved capacity quoted per contract⁶

Switch in one line

-  baseURL: "https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/{account}/{gateway}/compat",
-  apiKey: process.env.CF_API_TOKEN,
+  baseURL: "https://api.routerplus.com/v1",
+  apiKey: process.env.ROUTERPLUS_API_KEY,

Questions teams ask

Is RouterPlus better than Cloudflare AI Gateway?

RouterPlus is the better fit when you want inference at provider prices with no credit fee, routing on your own evals, and capacity reserved across providers. Cloudflare AI Gateway observes and caches traffic to provider accounts and adds 5% to Unified Billing credits.¹³

What is the difference between RouterPlus and Cloudflare AI Gateway?

Cloudflare AI Gateway is an observability and control layer at Cloudflare's edge, over provider keys or Cloudflare credits. RouterPlus is an inference gateway: one key at each provider's price, routing on your evals, and reserved capacity for teams at scale.⁴¹

Which is cheaper, RouterPlus or Cloudflare AI Gateway?

With your own provider keys, neither charges on tokens. When the gateway bills your inference, Cloudflare adds 5% to the credits you buy, while RouterPlus charges each provider's listed price with no fee line.³¹⁷

Can RouterPlus replace Cloudflare AI Gateway?

Yes, for chat traffic on models in the RouterPlus catalog: change the base URL, key and model IDs. Cloudflare features such as edge caching or DLP scanning stay with Cloudflare if you use them.⁵⁸

Does RouterPlus store my prompts?

Billing and analytics keep metadata only. Requests to shared endpoints go to an encrypted request log for up to 30 days, for debugging. Dedicated endpoints and organizations that opt out are never logged.⁹

How do I switch from Cloudflare AI Gateway to RouterPlus?

Point your client at https://api.routerplus.com/v1, use a RouterPlus key and map model names to RouterPlus catalog IDs. The OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs work unchanged.⁸

Sources

Checked November 5, 2026. Prices and plans change; each provider's page is the source of truth.

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