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Cloudflare Moves Two AI Payment Tools Into Beta

The beta adds x402-backed per-request billing that settles in USDC on Base, with a separate self-reporting Pay Per Use program to compensate publishers.

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Overview

  • Cloudflare put the Monetization Gateway and Pay Per Use into beta, making the company’s experimental systems for charging AI agents and paying publishers available to early partners.
  • The Monetization Gateway enforces per-request payments using the x402 protocol and HTTP 402 flow and settles transactions in USDC on the Base blockchain via Coinbase’s x402 facilitator.
  • Sellers set fixed or variable prices (from $0.001 up to $100) and can target audiences including verified bots through Cloudflare’s BotBase, while variable pricing lets origins report the actual settled charge.
  • The Gateway is in a closed beta limited to U.S.-based buyers and sellers and requires eligibility checks such as a verified email, a credit card on file, minimum account and zone age, and zone security checks.
  • Pay Per Use relies on buyer self-reporting of timestamp, source URL and event ID; Cloudflare matches reports to enrolled publishers, bills buyers, issues monthly payouts, and is testing publisher counteroffers and broader geographic and payment support.