Oddly, I don't see anything about pricing for Workers AI on the Workers pricing page[0] but their Workers AI blog post from Sept 2023[1] says the pricing is per 1k "neurons":

> Users will be able to choose from two ways to run Workers AI:

> Regular Twitch Neurons (RTN) - running wherever there's capacity at $0.01 / 1k neurons

> Fast Twitch Neurons (FTN) - running at nearest user location at $0.125 / 1k neurons

> Neurons are a way to measure AI output that always scales down to zero (if you get no usage, you will be charged for 0 neurons).

Here's the key detail:

> To give you a sense of what you can accomplish with a thousand neurons, you can: generate 130 LLM responses, 830 image classifications, or 1,250 embeddings.

[0] - https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing

[1] - https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/

Like with most serverless functions

How many dollar bills does it take to make a pile worth sleeping in?

having a hard time calculating why anybody needs this/wants this

productionizing ai models is a pain, this makes it easy. say you were building a d&d app and wanted to generate character art, this would make it very easy to get started. aws has similar offerings (e.g sage maker) but it’s not on the edge.

It seems cheaper than the OpenAI API and is very easy to use from a worker.

I see it more as a convenience feature for people already using CF Workers