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The Cloudflare adapter provides access to Cloudflare Workers AI models and AI Gateway for routing requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, and OpenRouter with caching, rate limiting, and unified billing.

Installation

npm install @cloudflare/tanstack-ai @tanstack/ai

For AI Gateway with third-party providers, install the provider SDKs you need:

npm install @tanstack/ai-openai       # For OpenAI via Gateway
npm install @tanstack/ai-anthropic    # For Anthropic via Gateway
npm install @tanstack/ai-gemini       # For Gemini via Gateway
npm install @tanstack/ai-grok         # For Grok via Gateway
npm install @tanstack/ai-openrouter   # For OpenRouter via Gateway

Basic Usage

typescript

import { chat, toHttpResponse } from "@tanstack/ai";
import { createWorkersAiChat } from "@cloudflare/tanstack-ai";

const adapter = createWorkersAiChat(
  "@cf/meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct",
  { binding: env.AI },
);

const response = chat({
  adapter,
  stream: true,
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});

return toHttpResponse(response);

Workers AI

The simplest way to use AI in a Cloudflare Worker. No API keys needed when using the env.AI binding.

Chat

typescript

import { chat, toHttpResponse } from "@tanstack/ai";
import { createWorkersAiChat } from "@cloudflare/tanstack-ai";

const adapter = createWorkersAiChat(
  "@cf/meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct",
  { binding: env.AI },
);

const response = chat({
  adapter,
  stream: true,
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});

return toHttpResponse(response);

Chat with REST Credentials

If you're not running inside a Worker, use account ID and API key instead:

typescript

import { createWorkersAiChat } from "@cloudflare/tanstack-ai";

const adapter = createWorkersAiChat(
  "@cf/meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct",
  {
    accountId: "your-account-id",
    apiKey: "your-api-key",
  },
);

Image Generation

typescript

import { generateImage } from "@tanstack/ai";
import { createWorkersAiImage } from "@cloudflare/tanstack-ai";

const adapter = createWorkersAiImage(
  "@cf/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0",
  { binding: env.AI },
);

const result = await generateImage({
  adapter,
  prompt: "a cat in space",
});

console.log(result.images[0].b64Json);

Transcription (Speech-to-Text)

Supports Whisper and Deepgram models:

typescript

import { generateTranscription } from "@tanstack/ai";
import { createWorkersAiTranscription } from "@cloudflare/tanstack-ai";

const adapter = createWorkersAiTranscription(
  "@cf/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo",
  { binding: env.AI },
);

const result = await generateTranscription({
  adapter,
  audio: audioArrayBuffer,
});

console.log(result.text);
console.log(result.segments);

Supported transcription models: @cf/openai/whisper, @cf/openai/whisper-tiny-en, @cf/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo, @cf/deepgram/nova-3

Text-to-Speech

typescript

import { generateSpeech } from "@tanstack/ai";
import { createWorkersAiTts } from "@cloudflare/tanstack-ai";

const adapter = createWorkersAiTts("@cf/deepgram/aura-2-en", {
  binding: env.AI,
});

const result = await generateSpeech({
  adapter,
  text: "Hello world",
});

console.log(result.audio);

Summarization

typescript

import { summarize } from "@tanstack/ai";
import { createWorkersAiSummarize } from "@cloudflare/tanstack-ai";

const adapter = createWorkersAiSummarize("@cf/facebook/bart-large-cnn", {
  binding: env.AI,
});

const result = await summarize({
  adapter,
  text: "Long article here...",
});

console.log(result.summary);

AI Gateway

Route AI requests through Cloudflare's AI Gateway for caching, rate limiting, and unified billing. Supports both Workers AI and third-party providers.

Workers AI through Gateway

typescript

import { createWorkersAiChat } from "@cloudflare/tanstack-ai";

const adapter = createWorkersAiChat(
  "@cf/meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct",
  {
    binding: env.AI.gateway("my-gateway-id"),
    apiKey: env.WORKERS_AI_TOKEN,
  },
);

Third-Party Providers through Gateway

Use the binding approach (recommended for Cloudflare Workers):

typescript

import {
  createOpenAiChat,
  createAnthropicChat,
  createGeminiChat,
  createGrokChat,
  createOpenRouterChat,
} from "@cloudflare/tanstack-ai";

const openai = createOpenAiChat("gpt-4o", {
  binding: env.AI.gateway("my-gateway-id"),
});

const anthropic = createAnthropicChat("claude-sonnet-4-5", {
  binding: env.AI.gateway("my-gateway-id"),
});

const grok = createGrokChat("grok-4", {
  binding: env.AI.gateway("my-gateway-id"),
});

const openrouter = createOpenRouterChat("openai/gpt-4o", {
  binding: env.AI.gateway("my-gateway-id"),
});

Or use credentials for non-Worker environments:

typescript

import { createOpenAiChat } from "@cloudflare/tanstack-ai";

const adapter = createOpenAiChat("gpt-4o", {
  accountId: "your-account-id",
  gatewayId: "your-gateway-id",
  cfApiKey: "your-cf-api-key",
  apiKey: "provider-api-key",
});

Cache Options

Both binding and credentials modes support cache configuration:

typescript

const adapter = createOpenAiChat("gpt-4o", {
  binding: env.AI.gateway("my-gateway-id"),
  skipCache: false,
  cacheTtl: 3600,
  customCacheKey: "my-key",
  metadata: { user: "test" },
});

Configuration Modes

Workers AI supports four configuration modes:

Mode	Config	Description
Plain binding	{ binding: env.AI }	Direct access, no gateway
Plain REST	{ accountId, apiKey }	REST API, no gateway
Gateway binding	{ binding: env.AI.gateway(id) }	Through AI Gateway via binding
Gateway REST	{ accountId, gatewayId, ... }	Through AI Gateway via REST

Third-party providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, OpenRouter) only support the gateway modes.

Supported Capabilities

Provider	Chat	Summarize	Image Gen	Transcription	TTS
Workers AI	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
OpenAI	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Anthropic	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Gemini	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Grok	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
OpenRouter	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌

Environment Variables

For the REST credential path (outside of Cloudflare Workers):

CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID=your-account-id
CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY=your-api-key

When using the env.AI binding inside a Worker, no environment variables are needed.

API Reference

Workers AI

createWorkersAiChat(model, config) — Chat and structured output
createWorkersAiImage(model, config) — Image generation
createWorkersAiTranscription(model, config) — Speech-to-text (Whisper, Deepgram)
createWorkersAiTts(model, config) — Text-to-speech (Deepgram Aura)
createWorkersAiSummarize(model, config) — Summarization (BART-large-CNN)

Gateway Providers

createOpenAiChat(model, config) / createOpenAiSummarize / createOpenAiImage / createOpenAiTranscription / createOpenAiTts
createAnthropicChat(model, config) / createAnthropicSummarize
createGeminiChat(model, config) / createGeminiSummarize / createGeminiImage / createGeminiTts
createGrokChat(model, config) / createGrokSummarize / createGrokImage
createOpenRouterChat(model, config) / createOpenRouterSummarize / createOpenRouterImage

Next Steps

Cloudflare Workers AI — Workers AI documentation
Cloudflare AI Gateway — AI Gateway documentation
GitHub Repository — Source code and issues
Streaming Guide — Learn about streaming responses
Tools Guide — Learn about tool calling