Cloudflare opens Auto Router beta, with savings figures from its own tests
Gateway-level automatic model selection could cut AI spend, but all cost and success figures come from Cloudflare's internal benchmark.
Cloudflare opened its AI Gateway Auto Router to public beta on September 30. Setting the model to cloudflare/auto lets the system pick a model per request automatically.
The router runs a classifier on GPUs across Cloudflare's edge, scoring each request on dimensions including complexity, ambiguity and stakes, then combines those signals with model prices to pick a capable-enough option, accounting for cache-rewrite costs when switching models mid-session.
Cloudflare's own internal benchmark reports: across 291 simulated office tasks, Auto Router scored 86.6% success at $2.10 total cost; Claude Opus 5.5 scored 96.6% at $5.91; GPT-6 Sol scored 84.2% at $2.64. That puts the router at 35% of Opus's cost and 80% of Sol's.
All of these figures come from Cloudflare's own internal benchmark and OpenCode deployment, covering email, calendar and file workflows; whether the savings transfer to other companies' workloads remains to be seen.