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description: AI Gateway now automatically creates a gateway for you on your first request.
title: Get started with AI Gateway automatically
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March 2, 2026

## Get started with AI Gateway automatically

[AI Gateway](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/)

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You can now start using AI Gateway with a single API call — no setup required. Use `default` as your gateway ID, and AI Gateway creates one for you automatically on the first request.

To try it out, [create an API token](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/api/get-started/create-token/) with `AI Gateway - Read`, `AI Gateway - Edit`, and `Workers AI - Read` permissions, then run:

```bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID/default/compat/chat/completions \
  --header "cf-aig-authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "model": "workers-ai/@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "What is Cloudflare?"
      }
    ]
  }'
```

AI Gateway gives you logging, caching, rate limiting, and access to multiple AI providers through a single endpoint. For more information, refer to [Get started](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/get-started/).

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