| Field | Cloudflare Workers AI | Ollama Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Ongoing free tier · renewing-quota | Ongoing free tier · renewing-quota |
| What's free | 10,000 Neurons/day, all account plans | $0 Free plan: starter amount of cloud usage credits, limited to a smaller set of starter models; buying credits unlocks all cloud models |
| Rate limits | 10,000 Neurons/day (free allocation). Per-task request limits: text generation 300 requests/min (models that require Workers Paid: 20 requests/min per model); text embeddings 3,000/min; speech recognition, text-to-image, translation, image-to-text 720/min | 1 concurrent request on the free plan; included usage resets monthly from signup date (dollar amount of starter credits not published) |
| Expires | no expiry | no expiry |
| The catch | Resets daily at 00:00 UTC; overage on a Workers Paid plan bills at $0.011/1,000 Neurons. A few models (e.g. Kimi K2.6/K2.7-code, GLM-5.2) now require a Workers Paid plan | First-party — Ollama hosts the cloud models. Requires an ollama.com account + API key. The old 5-hour session / weekly limits are gone: usage is now credit-based with a monthly reset; Pro ($20/mo) includes $60 of credits. Prompts/responses are not logged or trained on. Whether a card is required is not stated on the current pricing page. |
| Credit card | not required | not confirmed |
| Phone verification | not required | not required |
| Commercial use | allowed | allowed |
| OpenAI-compatible | yeshttps://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/v1 | yeshttps://ollama.com/v1 |
| Modalities | text, embeddings, image, audio | text, vision |
| Free models (sample) | @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast @cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct @cf/mistralai/mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct @cf/qwen/qwen2.5-coder-32b-instruct @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b @cf/google/gemma-3-12b-it | no sample |
| Official docs | developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/ | docs.ollama.com/cloud |
| Last verified | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-08 |