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# crawler-price header: definition | Agent Ready Crawlers

> crawler-price header: The response header Cloudflare pay per crawl sends with a 402 to state the per-request price. Read 2026-11-04.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/crawler-price-header
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

Glossary

# crawler-price header

In short

The response header Cloudflare pay per crawl sends with a 402 to state the per-request price. It is how a crawler learns the price before it retries; AWS WAF uses an x402 response instead. Example: HTTP 402 Payment Required with crawler-price: USD XX.XX. Related: What pay per crawl pays and Cloudflare profile.

## Definition

The response header Cloudflare pay per crawl sends with a 402 to state the per-request price.

## Sourced example

HTTP 402 Payment Required with crawler-price: USD XX.XX. [Source](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/), read 2026-11-04.

## How it shows up here

It is how a crawler learns the price before it retries; AWS WAF uses an x402 response instead.

-   [What pay per crawl pays](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/guides/what-pay-per-crawl-pays/)
-   [Cloudflare profile](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/cloudflare/)

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## Sources

-   [Introducing pay per crawl](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/) read 2026-11-04

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