Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access

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.