Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid
Sep 30, 2026Rúben Teixeira, Jack Galilee, Kayte Johnston, Sam Else

Summary
Introduces 'Pay Per Use', a new beta feature that enables publishers to monetize content used by AI products. This system allows publishers to define pricing for specific content uses and receive payments based on reported usage by AI buyers. It includes a mechanism for AI companies to identify their crawling activity using Verified Bots and report usage via a single API. Cloudflare handles enrollment, usage reporting, billing, and payment settlement between buyers and publishers.
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