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Cloudflare announces a private beta of Pay Per Crawl

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Cloudflare describes its Pay Per Crawl private beta, allowing website operators to set access prices for selected AI crawlers.

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What changed

Access management expands to an experimental mechanism for charging per crawl.

RESEARCH NOTE

A private beta is not a general release. Charging for access is not in itself a comprehensive copyright licence.

Editorial research question

This offers a comparison with negotiation and commercialisation beyond outright refusal.

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Cloudflare describes its Pay Per Crawl private beta, allowing website operators to set access prices for selected AI crawlers.

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Title, “For Site Owners” and “For AI Crawler Owners”

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Introducing Pay Per Crawl (private beta)

Cloudflare · EN · 2025-07-01

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