Cloudflare launches Clairic extraction model on Workers AI preview
Cloudflare announced a preview of Clairic, the first System One‑style extraction model, hosted on Workers AI under the identifier @cf/cloudflare/clairic. The model extracts, computes, estimates and forecasts values from unstructured text or up to four images in a single forward pass, charging only for input tokens. It returns typed outputs with confidence scores, character offsets and optional…
What you can do with it
AI at Work →Single-pass extraction, computation, estimation and forecasting.
- Who for
- marketers
- Cost
- Price not stated
- Effort
- minutes
Use it for
- Extract values
- Estimate costs
- Forecast demand
Watch out Preview may have limited arithmetic and estimation accuracy
Key points from the news
- Clairic extracts, computes, estimates and forecasts values from text or images in a single pass, charging only for input tokens
- Cloudflare reports a cascade using Clairic is 69 % faster (19.3 s vs 61.7 s) and 49 % cheaper than an all‑LLM pipeline
- On TSA daily‑screening data, forecasts were 3.3 % average error with 17 of 21 predictions inside the 80 % interval
In internal tests, a pipeline that used Clairic for extraction and the decision model Clef ran 69 % faster (19.3 s vs 61.7 s) and cost 49 % less than an all‑LLM pipeline that relied on GLM‑5.3 for every step. On a public TSA daily‑screening series, Clairic’s forecasts were off by an average of 3.3 % and 17 of 21 actual counts fell inside the predicted 80 % interval. Cloudflare says the model is accurate, low‑latency (under a second for many fields) and cheap compared with traditional LLMs, though multi‑step arithmetic and long‑range forecasting remain limited. Open‑weights are planned for a future release.
Model pages: Clef → · GLM 5.3 →
Cloudflare debuts Clairic, a System One-class extraction model it says processes unstructured data faster, more cheaply, and more accurately than normal LLMs
blog.cloudflare.com · 19 October 2026
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