Cloudflare AI Gateway

Cloudflare AI Gateway is a Cloudflare product that routes, caches, and monitors enterprise traffic to large language model APIs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and others. It occupies the same architectural slot as LiteLLM and BerriAI, sitting between enterprise applications and frontier LLM providers and providing logging, rate limiting, and caching for AI API traffic. Unlike LiteLLM, Cloudflare AI Gateway is a commercial product with Cloudflare's enterprise security engineering, DDoS protection, and global network infrastructure behind it.

GTIG's May 2026 report named Cloudflare AI Gateway as sitting in the same product category as LiteLLM for the purpose of supply-chain risk comparison. GTIG did not name Cloudflare AI Gateway as a victim of UNC6780's operations, and GTIG's report does not indicate whether UNC6780 attempted to target Cloudflare's infrastructure. The mention serves to contextualise the risk category: any product that sits as middleware between enterprise applications and LLM providers is now a target category, not a safe default.

For security practitioners, the Cloudflare AI Gateway comparison illustrates a procurement tension: open-source proxies like LiteLLM offer flexibility and cost efficiency but lack the commercial security engineering and patch Velocity of products like Cloudflare AI Gateway. The LiteLLM breach does not make Cloudflare AI Gateway the de facto SAFE alternative; it raises the bar for due diligence on the entire category.