Cloudflare's Clairic beats LLMs in data extraction speed and cost

cloudflare has introduced clairic, an ai model that extracts data from documents faster and more cheaply than large language models. clairic is currently in preview on workers ai, with open weights set to follow soon. users can specify fields to extract, such as order numbers or invoice totals, and clairic returns matching values along with a confidence score. the model can handle simple calculations, estimates, and forecasts, and is designed to work as part of a larger agent chain. cloudflare claims that using clairic in a chain with other models can reduce processing time and cost compared to using llms alone.