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title: "Cloudflare makes Clef up to 2x faster on Workers AI"
description: "From the The Forward Pass daily issue, October 11, 2026."
canonical: https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-11/cloudflare-makes-clef-up-to-2x-faster-on-workers-ai
updated: 2026-10-11
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# Cloudflare makes Clef up to 2x faster on Workers AI

From The Forward Pass daily issue, October 11, 2026 (https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-11). Source: https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-11/cloudflare-makes-clef-up-to-2x-faster-on-workers-ai

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**Top News**

If your application needs to choose an allowed answer rather than generate text, Clef-omni scores those answers in one pass. The open-weight multimodal decision model is available on Cloudflare Workers AI at $0.150 per million input tokens.

Here's what changed:
- Clef-omni accepts text, images, audio, and video, and aligns video frames with the soundtrack.
- Hosted input costs $0.150 per million tokens for Clef-omni and $0.240 for Clef, both with 64K context. Clef-flash costs $0.038 per million input tokens.
- Reported response times are about 20 ms for text, under 100 ms for images or audio, and about 300 ms for a 21-second video with sound.
- Serving optimizations make Clef up to 2x faster on Workers AI without changing its weights.

One catch: The Clef-flash price cut reduced hosted context from 64K to 24K tokens.

Try it: On Workers AI, use model ID `@cf/cloudflare/clef-omni` and set the model selector to `clef-omni`.

Sources: [developers.cloudflare.com](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-09-clef-omni-workers-ai/)