Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router

What happened

Cloudflare AI Gateway now features a model router that evaluates request complexity using an edge-deployed classifier to select the optimal model. First, there is an exploration period as you bring on every new tool, dole out API (the interface one piece of software uses to talk to another) keys freely, and let the tokens flow.

Then, you converge on the canonical tools for your organization for agentic (AI that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one question) coding, for non-technical workflows, for running and deploying agents. As companies formalize their AI adoption, they want to manage and oversee token spend for users, but budgets and rules only go so far.

Set your model to cloudflare/auto and the Auto Router will automatically route each request to a model that is capable enough for the task, without requiring an end user to think about model selection. In many harnesses, including OpenCode, Claude Code, and Codex, individual users still select models manually.