Your AI bill is out of control. Cloudflare can fix it now.
Jun 5, 2026Ming Lu, Kenny Johnson

Summary
This post introduces spend controls for Cloudflare AI Gateway, allowing users to set budgets in dollars, track cumulative spend across models, providers, and custom attributes, and configure actions (blocking or routing to fallback models) when limits are reached. It also announces a closed beta for identity-driven budgets and policies, which integrate with Cloudflare Access and identity providers to enable per-user and per-team AI usage controls. This allows for verified, automatic attribution of AI spend and granular policy enforcement based on user identity and group membership.
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