Summary
Cloudflare added a new AI Gateway REST API on api.cloudflare.com that lets developers call OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Workers AI models through one authentication model and one set of compatible endpoints. The update turns Cloudflare's multi-model packaging into a more practical control plane for agent traffic, with logging, caching, rate limiting, guardrails, and unified billing applied automatically.
What changed
Cloudflare expanded AI Gateway with a unified REST API that supports universal and provider-compatible endpoints, including OpenAI-style chat and responses APIs plus an Anthropic-compatible messages API.
Why it matters
This is more than another model-hosting announcement. Cloudflare is making its control-plane pitch operational by giving teams a practical, drop-in API layer for routing agent traffic across multiple vendors while preserving governance and observability controls.
Evidence excerpt
Cloudflare says AI Gateway now uses the AI REST API on api.cloudflare.com, offering POST /ai/run, OpenAI-compatible chat and responses endpoints, and an Anthropic-compatible messages endpoint with logging, caching, rate limiting, and guardrails applied automatically.