Cloudflare Expands AI Bot Controls and Pay-Per-Crawl Marketplace
July 25, 2026
Cloudflare is evolving its content protection suite to move beyond simple bot blocking. The updated offerings provide website owners nuanced control over AI crawlers and access to a marketplace for monetizing original content through compensated access.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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founderYou can now explore monetization strategies for your site's data via a marketplace rather than just blocking crawlers.
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policyThis signals a shift toward structured compensation models for training data usage.