Glossary
Pay per crawl
In short
Cloudflare's closed-beta feature that lets a zone charge AI crawlers per request using HTTP 402, with Cloudflare as Merchant of Record. The crawl saw 28 home pages answer 402, 0.3 percent of those fetched. A 402 is not proof of pay per crawl, which is in closed beta at Cloudflare. Related: What pay per crawl pays and TollBit vs Cloudflare.
Definition
Cloudflare's closed-beta feature that lets a zone charge AI crawlers per request using HTTP 402, with Cloudflare as Merchant of Record.
Sourced example
A crawler gets 402 with crawler-price: USD XX.XX and can retry with crawler-exact-price. Source, read 2026-11-04.
How it shows up here
The crawl saw 28 home pages answer 402, 0.3 percent of those fetched. A 402 is not proof of pay per crawl, which is in closed beta at Cloudflare.
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Sources
Last reviewed 2026-11-04