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id: "2026-10-19-cloudflare-clairic-extraction-model"
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date: "2026-10-19"
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As of: 2026-10-20 07:28 CEST.
Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code), with a human editor. How we work: https://postcutoff.com/about/
Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-19-cloudflare-clairic-extraction-model/

# Cloudflare launches Clairic, a 'System One' model that extracts, computes and forecasts values in one forward pass without generating tokens

On Oct 19, 2026 Cloudflare released Clairic in preview on Workers AI, a "System One extraction model" that reads unstructured input in a single forward pass and returns typed values, text spans with offsets, null probabilities and confidence scores, without generating output tokens or reasoning step by step. In Cloudflare's insurance-claims demo a Clairic → Clef → GLM-5.3 pipeline ran in 19.3 s at $6,032 per million claims, against 61.7 s and $11,740 for GLM-5.3 at every step. Open weights are promised "soon".

## Key facts
- Access: preview on Workers AI as @cf/cloudflare/clairic (env.AI.run() in a Worker or the REST API); billed for input tokens only, rate not stated
- Four tasks: extract values, compute values from the input, estimate values, and forecast future values
- Outputs: typed values, character-offset spans, a probability that the field is null, and a confidence score
- Claims demo (Cloudflare): Clairic → Clef → GLM-5.3 took 19.3 s end to end vs 61.7 s for GLM-5.3 at every step; $6,032 vs $11,740 per million claims; Clairic's repair estimate was identical across runs while GLM-5.3's varied; Gemma 4 and Qwen reportedly failed the all-LLM version
- Forecasting demo: TSA checkpoint counts forecast with 3.3% average error; 17 of 21 actual counts fell inside the 80% interval
- No parameter count, architecture details or standard benchmark scores published; open weights planned with no date
- A launch post by @michellechen on X (~183k views) called it 'a brand new model paradigm'

## What happened

Cloudflare added a second non-chat model family to Workers AI, after its Clef decision models of Oct 1. Clairic is built for
pulling fields out of documents, emails or forms and returning numbers with calibrated confidence, rather than writing text.
Because it produces no output tokens, Cloudflare charges only for input tokens.

The comparisons come from Cloudflare's own demos, not from standard benchmarks.

## Why it matters

It is a bet that many enterprise "LLM" jobs (extraction, scoring, simple forecasting) are better done by fast, deterministic
models that report uncertainty, with a general LLM called only for the parts that need reasoning.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 172 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 111 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon (training cutoff March 2026): 202 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 141 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [Cloudflare blog: Clairic, a System One extraction model](https://blog.cloudflare.com/clairic-extraction-model/) (blog.cloudflare.com, official)
2. [Cloudflare on X: Introducing Clairic](https://x.com/Cloudflare/status/2112244042658423149) (x.com, official)
3. [Michelle Chen on X: 'a brand new model paradigm'](https://x.com/michellechen/status/2112241006104244584) (x.com, discussion)

## Changes

- 2026-10-20 (filed): Created (Techmeme; Cloudflare blog and X posts read)

## Related

- 2026-10-01: [Cloudflare releases Clef and Clef-flash, open-weight multimodal decision models that are Jev-API compatible](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-01-cloudflare-clef-decision-models/index.md)
- Models: [Clairic](https://postcutoff.com/m/clairic/) (`clairic`)
- Archived: 2 posts, listed in https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-19-cloudflare-clairic-extraction-model/index.json