On the Free plan the daily allowance ends with an error, not a bill. Workers AI runs open models on Cloudflare's network and is included in both the Workers Free and Workers Paid plans. Pricing is measured in Neurons: everyone gets 10,000 Neurons a day at no charge, and usage above that costs $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons on Workers Paid. On Workers Free, the pricing page says operations fail with an error once you pass the allocation. The page also converts rates to tokens, for example Llama 3.2 1B at $0.027 per million input tokens and $0.201 per million output tokens. By those rates 10,000 Neurons is roughly half a million output tokens on the 1B model, my arithmetic from the page. Reddit posters split: one found it useless beyond experiments after burning 12% of the daily limit in five minutes, another called the free tier genuinely usable for a small analysis tool. I found no G2 or Trustpilot listing.
Free tier quotas
Daily free allocation
10,000 Neurons per day on both Workers Free and Workers Paid
Past the allocation on Workers Free
Further operations fail with an error. You need Workers Paid to go beyond 10,000 Neurons a day
Past the allocation on Workers Paid
$0.011 per 1,000 Neurons
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
$0.027 per million input tokens and $0.201 per million output tokens (2,457 and 18,252 Neurons per million)
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
$0.051 per million input tokens and $0.335 per million output tokens (4,625 and 30,475 Neurons per million)
What 10,000 Neurons buys
About 550,000 output tokens on Llama 3.2 1B or 330,000 on 3B, my arithmetic from the page's rates, ignoring input
Plans
Workers AI is included in both Workers plans. No separate AI subscription
Reported image use
An r/ArtificialInteligence post said 10,000 Neurons gives about 20 to 30 SDXL 512x512 images a day. It is a single undated post
Last sniffed Oct 16, 2026. Always confirm on the official pricing page.
👍 Good boy
+Everyone gets 10,000 Neurons a day at no charge, on Workers Free and Workers Paid alike, according to the pricing page.
+Going past the free allocation is pay as you go at $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons on Workers Paid, with no separate AI plan.
+The pricing page publishes rates in both Neurons and tokens for each model, for example 2,457 Neurons per million input tokens on Llama 3.2 1B, so you can estimate cost before you build.
+Small models are cheap per token: Llama 3.2 1B at $0.027 in and $0.201 out per million tokens, and 3B at $0.051 and $0.335.
+An r/ClaudeAI poster who built an MCP server for GEO analysis on Workers AI said the free tier is genuinely usable, at roughly 1,000 analyses a day.
+An r/ArtificialInteligence poster listed Workers AI SDXL as a free text-to-image option that needed no card for instant testing. It is a single undated post, so check the current rules.
👎 Watch out
−On Workers Free the cap is a hard stop. The pricing page says operations fail with an error once you exceed the free allocation, and going further needs Workers Paid.
−An r/CloudFlare poster called it useless for real work and said the free tier is only for experimentation, because they used 12% of the daily limit within five minutes.
−The daily allocation is small in token terms. By the page's rates, 10,000 Neurons is about 550,000 output tokens on Llama 3.2 1B or about 330,000 on 3B, my arithmetic, before counting input.
−Pricing is in Neurons first and tokens second, so you convert between units per model before you can compare it with per-token APIs.
−An HN commenter in a thread about Cloudflare's AI platform said they use OpenRouter called from Workers, and credited it with better cascading and waterfalling when models are offline.
−I found no G2 or Trustpilot listing, so the outside evidence is Reddit and Hacker News excerpts.
The catch
The free allocation is the same 10,000 Neurons a day on Workers Free and Workers Paid. The difference is what happens at the cap: on Workers Free the pricing page says further operations fail with an error, and to use more you sign up for Workers Paid and pay $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons above the free amount.
Neurons are Cloudflare's own unit, so the page lists each model in both Neurons and tokens. Llama 3.2 1B Instruct costs 2,457 Neurons per million input tokens and 18,252 per million output tokens, which the page prices at $0.027 and $0.201. Llama 3.2 3B costs 4,625 and 30,475 Neurons, or $0.051 and $0.335. At those rates 10,000 Neurons is about 550,000 output tokens on the 1B model and about 330,000 on the 3B (my arithmetic, ignoring input tokens). The page I read lists only text models in this range, so check the Neuron cost of the model you plan to call.
The pages I read do not state whether signing up needs a card or whether the free allocation is allowed for commercial use, so I left both unknown. I found no G2 or Trustpilot reviews. Reddit opinion is split between 'useless for real work' and 'genuinely usable' for a small tool, which is what you would expect from a free allocation that depends on the model you call.
What’s included
✓Serverless inference for open models with no GPU management
✓Included in Workers Free and Workers Paid
✓Pricing listed in both Neurons and tokens
✓10,000 free Neurons a day
✓Pay-as-you-go above the free allocation on Workers Paid
✓Text generation models such as Llama 3.2 1B and 3B
✓Image generation models, with SDXL cited in a Reddit post
✓Included in the Workers plans, so it can be called from Workers code
Free tier value
Generosity
B
Estimated value
10,000 Neurons a day, roughly 300,000 to 550,000 output tokens on small Llama models
Feature parity
Workers Paid keeps the same 10,000 daily Neurons and bills $0.011 per 1,000 beyond it.
Screenshots
Cloudflare Workers AI homepageCloudflare Workers AI pricing page
Paid plans
Workers Paid, usage above the free allocation
$0.011 per 1,000 Neurons above the 10,000 a day included. The monthly price of the Workers Paid plan is on the Workers pricing page, which I did not read.
Per-model rates
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is $0.027 per million input tokens and $0.201 per million output tokens. Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is $0.051 and $0.335. Other models are listed on the Workers AI pricing page.
Common questions
How much does Workers AI give free?
10,000 Neurons per day, on both Workers Free and Workers Paid.
What happens when I use up the free Neurons?
On Workers Free, further operations fail with an error. On Workers Paid, usage above 10,000 Neurons a day is charged at $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons.
What is a Neuron?
Cloudflare's billing unit for Workers AI. The pricing page lists each model's cost in Neurons per million tokens next to its dollar price.
Is it enough for a real application?
Reddit opinion is split. One poster burned 12% of the daily limit in five minutes, another ran roughly 1,000 small analyses a day on the free tier. It depends on the model and request size.
Do I need a credit card?
The pages I read do not say. One Reddit post said no card was needed for testing, but it is a single undated post.
Change history
Checked October 22, 2026
Workers AI pricing page read. Workers Paid monthly price not read. No G2 or Trustpilot listing found. Forum evidence comes from Reddit and Hacker News search excerpts.
