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Cloudflare launches Monetization Gateway to charge AI agents
Original: Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402
Cloudflare has opened the beta of its Monetization Gateway, letting businesses bill AI agents for the resources they consume using the long-dormant HTTP 402 'Payment Required' status code. The move targets the growing wave of agentic web traffic, giving sites a way to monetize machine access rather than block it, and positions Cloudflare at the center of the emerging pay-per-crawl economy.
Why now: AI agents are driving surging traffic to websites, and publishers are looking for ways to charge for it.
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