Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid
AI answer engines read a publisher’s page and hand the reader a summary, so the visit, and the revenue that would come with it, never happens.
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Key points
- The web needs a way to say “yes, if you pay.” Pay Per Use is one way to say it, and it's now in beta.
- The gist: A buyer offers a price for a specific use of your content.
- Publishers track usage and earnings in the Cloudflare dashboard.
- Pay Per Crawl, which we launched in 2025, charges for access.
Sources (1)
- [1]Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paidCloudflare Blog: AI · Sep 30, 01:00 PM
AI answer engines read a publisher’s page and hand the reader a summary, so the visit, and the revenue that would come with it, never happens.
The web needs a way to say “yes, if you pay.” Pay Per Use is one way to say it, and it's now in beta.
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