Smaller, latency-optimised Cloudflare decision model that returns probability-scored classifications of text or images
Clef
New· 4Cloudflare's open-weight decision model that classifies text or images into typed answers with probabilities for AI agents
TrustList summary
Clef is an open-weight decision model from Cloudflare, released on 1 October 2026 under the Apache 2.0 licence. Rather than writing free text, it picks from a defined set of answers and gives a probability for each, so agents can make routine calls such as routing, moderation or approval without a person checking each one.
Main features
- Typed classification: text or images are sorted into bounded answers, each with a probability.
- Fine-tuning on customer data: Cloudflare offers reinforcement-learning fine-tuning on a customer's own data, first as a service run by its engineers, with a self-serve version to follow.
- Open weights: the weights are published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.
- Hosted option: the model also runs on Cloudflare's Workers AI.
Customers and markets
Teams building agents that take routine decisions inside software.
Key facts
- Released: 1 October 2026
- Context: 64,000 tokens, for text or images
- Price on Workers AI: $0.24 per million input tokens (Cloudflare, 9 October 2026)
- Backbone: a frozen Qwen 3.8 27B model
- Related model: Clef-flash, a smaller variant released the same day
Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.
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