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Cloudflare Workers AI — free tier setup
What you get free
A permanent free allocation on Cloudflare's edge inference, metered in "Neurons" rather than requests or tokens. Per the catalog: "Our free allocation allows anyone to use a total of 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge." and "Neurons are our way of measuring AI outputs across different models, representing the GPU compute needed to perform your request." The gotcha: every request needs two credentials — an API token in the header and your account ID embedded in the URL path — and all 50+ free models drain the same single 10,000-neuron daily pool.
Friction check
| Credit card | no |
| Phone verification | no |
| Org/membership | none (any Cloudflare account) |
| Est. time to first key | ~15m (5 steps) |
| Trains on your prompts | unknown |
The rest of this guide — the key-obtain walkthrough, first request, the limits that will bite you, and the rotation runbook — ships with the Indie field library. What you’ve read above is the real first section, not a blurred preview; the remainder simply isn’t in this page.