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Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.

Pay per crawl grants domain owners full control over their monetization strategy. They can define a flat, per-request price across their entire site. Publishers will then have three distinct options for a crawler:

  1. Allow: Grant the crawler free access to content.
  2. Charge: Require payment at the configured, domain-wide price.
  3. Block: Deny access entirely, with no option to pay.

Although this is old news, I still found it interesting. Also, I like the "AI Labyrinth" feature of Cloudflare to block AI bots.

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Cloudflare's business model is dealing with unethical and unlawful bots. They can pour money into the arms race with "AI" companies and win. If they can't their service isn't valuable.