Cloudflare's Clairic pulls data from documents faster and cheaper than LLMs

Cloudflare released Clairic, a document-extraction AI model now in preview on Workers AI, with open weights to follow soon. Cloudflare says Clairic answers every requested field in a single pass rather than generating text token by token, returning values with a confidence score and "null" for missing fields. In a complaint-email example chaining Clairic with the Clef decision model and GLM-5.3, Cloudflare reports the chain takes 19.3 seconds versus 61.7 seconds for GLM-5.3 alone across all three steps and costs almost twice as much.

Cloudflare's Clairic pulls data from documents faster and cheaper than LLMs Cloudflare has released an AI model it says pulls data from documents faster and more cheaply than large language models. Clairic is available in preview on Workers AI https://blog.cloudflare.com/clairic-extraction-model/ , and open weights are set to follow soon. Users name the fields they want, like an order number or invoice total, and Clairic https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/models/clairic/?cf page=clairic-extraction-model%2F returns matching values in the right format along with a confidence score. Unlike language models, Clairic doesn't generate text token by token. It answers every field in a single pass. If a value is missing, the model returns "null." Beyond extraction, it can handle simple calculations, estimates, and forecasts. Cloudflare wants Clairic to run in chains alongside LLMs and other "System One" models like Jev https://the-decoder.com/former-openai-researcher-builds-an-ai-model-that-judges-options-instead-of-writing-text/ . With a complaint email, for example, Clairic pulls out the order number, amount, and damage, then estimates the repair cost. The decision model Clef https://the-decoder.com/cloudflare-says-its-new-clef-model-means-humans-no-longer-need-to-be-in-the-loop-for-ai-agents/ applies company rules to choose between a refund and a repair, and GLM-5.3 writes the reply to the customer. Cloudflare says this chain takes 19.3 seconds. GLM-5.3 on its own needs 61.7 seconds for all three steps and costs almost twice as much. According to Cloudflare, Clairic can't yet reliably handle longer chains of calculations. For now, developers should run those in their own code. AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now Cloudflare https://blog.cloudflare.com/clairic-extraction-model/