ClaudeBar’s Cloudflare AI provider: Workers AI neurons and overage in the menu bar

The open-source macOS menu bar app ClaudeBar added a Cloudflare AI provider that shows today’s Workers AI neurons against the free daily allocation, an estimated Workers Paid overage, AI Gateway tokens and the last invoice, using a read-only API token.

Products: Workers AIAI Gateway
Source: Community resourceGitHub documentation
Author: tddworks / itshan (@itshanrw)

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The provider page shows today’s Workers AI neurons against the free 10,000 a day, resetting at 00:00 UTC; it notes that Free stops at 10,000 while Workers Paid charges past it.
On Workers Paid, the monthly estimate adds each day’s neurons past 10,000 at $0.011 per 1,000 over the calendar month in UTC. The page warns this month is not the subscription billing period, so the estimate can differ from the invoice by a few days’ usage.
AI Gateway shows tokens and Gateway’s estimate of what upstream providers charge; that money is billed by those providers, not Cloudflare, so it is never counted in the cost. Workers AI tokens are shown for context because Workers AI bills neurons.
Setup needs an API token with Account Analytics: Read, plus Billing: Read for the plan, overage estimate and invoices. The provider is off by default, and each added account uses only its own token.

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Announcement: ClaudeBar now tracks Cloudflare AI — Workers AI neurons against the free 10k a day, Workers Paid overage priced day by day, Workers AI and AI Gateway tokens, and the last invoice — with one read-only token.
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ClaudeBar now tracks Cloudflare AI • Workers AI neurons vs the free 10k/day • Workers Paid overage, priced day by day • Workers AI + AI Gateway tokens • Last invoice One read-only token. Not working for you? Tell us 👇 https://t.co/cCiX2yp99x https://t.co/8k2pD24ZIG
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Announcement: ClaudeBar now tracks Cloudflare AI — Workers AI neurons against the free 10k a day, Workers Paid overage priced day by day, Workers AI and AI Gateway tokens, and the last invoice — with one read-only token.

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