Cloudflare cuts AI code review inference cost 68% through prompt-cache sharing and model/effort tuning
Cloudflare reports that the average cost of its internal AI code reviewer rose from $1.19 (April) to about $2.46 (end of August 2026), then fell to $0.77 per review after a cost-optimization effort starting in mid-September. Median review time dropped from 4m 09s to 1m 32s. Roughly 40% of the savings came from code changes and the rest fr…