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Tuesday 20 October 2026

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Cloudflare previews Clairic model for extracting typed values from text

The model returns numbers, dates and other structured values without generating prose. Cloudflare reports lower cost and faster processing in its own customer-claim test.

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Cloudflare released a preview of Clairic on 19 October, PPC Land reported. Available on Workers AI as @cf/cloudflare/clairic, the model reads text and images and returns typed values, including numbers, dates and lists, rather than writing sentences.

A request names the fields to fill and supplies the material to examine. Cloudflare says Clairic processes that input in a single forward pass and generates no output tokens. Each scalar answer carries a confidence score and a p_null value indicating the probability that the requested value is absent. In Cloudflare’s customer-email example, it calculated an amount from a price and tax, counted the days since delivery and returned null for a tracking number that the email did not contain.

Checking a claim against an email could therefore involve asking for several values at once, while leaving a missing detail empty rather than filling it with a guess. In Cloudflare’s test, the three-step customer-claim pipeline was 49% cheaper and about 3.2 times as fast with Clairic as it was when run entirely on a large language model. Cloudflare describes the preview endpoint as an early checkpoint that it expects to improve.

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Topics: Foundation models, Inference