Cloudflare gave away two models that only choose, never chat.
Cloudflare released Clef and Clef-flash on 1 October, models that pick between fixed options. Clef-flash answers in 39 milliseconds where the paid rival Jev takes 524. Both run on Cloudflare's network and sit on Hugging Face for anyone to download.
Why it mattersMost of an agent's work is sorting and routing, not writing prose. Handing that to a small model cuts both the waiting and the bill.
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