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Cloudflare says the post follows last week’s release of Clef and Clef-flash.
Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash · Cloudflare · archived copy · checked 12 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
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Cloudflare says: "Text-only decisions return in about 130 ms at the median, image inputs in about 150 ms, and audio clips in a few hundred milliseconds."
Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash · Cloudflare · archived copy · checked 12 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
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Cloudflare reports median speedups for the hosted Clef of 1.7x for about 800 tokens, 2.0x for about 3,400 tokens and 1.7x for about 16,000 tokens, and says "most of the optimizations we made are at the serving infrastructure layer".
Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash · Cloudflare · archived copy · checked 12 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
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Cloudflare says: "From our usage data, we see that only 0.24% of requests exceed 24k input tokens."
Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash · Cloudflare · archived copy · checked 12 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
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Cloudflare says the model weights on Hugging Face are untouched and "were trained to support a 256k context window should you choose to self-host it".
Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash · Cloudflare · archived copy · checked 12 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
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Cloudflare says: "The hosted version of Clef-flash now has a context window of 24k, instead of 64k as previously advertised."
Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash · Cloudflare · archived copy · checked 12 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
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Cloudflare lists: "Clef-flash – originally $0.09 per M input tokens, now $0.038 per M input tokens", "Clef – remains at $0.24 per M input tokens" and "Clef-omni – launched today at $0.15 per M input tokens".
Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash · Cloudflare · archived copy · checked 12 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
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Cloudflare says it released the Clef-omni weights on Hugging Face, and that it built the model on a Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct mixture-of-experts (MoE) foundation.
Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash · Cloudflare · archived copy · checked 12 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
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Cloudflare says: "Today, we’re releasing Clef-omni, which takes in audio and video input alongside text and image." It names audio as wav or mp3 and video as mp4 or webm.
Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash · Cloudflare · archived copy · checked 12 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
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Cloudflare's blog post introducing Clef-omni carries the publication date 2026-10-09.
Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash · Cloudflare · archived copy · checked 12 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
Numbers over time
Prices, context windows and test scores we checked. Each number links to the fact it comes from.
Clef: Price per million input tokens
| Date | Value | Fact |
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| 2026-10-12 | $0.24 | Cite this fact |
Clef-flash: Context window
| Date | Value | Fact |
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| 2026-10-12 | 24,000 tokens | Cite this fact |
Clef-flash: Price per million input tokens
| Date | Value | Fact |
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| 2026-10-12 | $0.038 | Cite this fact |
Clef-omni: Price per million input tokens
| Date | Value | Fact |
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| 2026-10-12 | $0.15 | Cite this fact |
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