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Cloudflare Just Changed the Game with 'Pay per Crawl' (and it was about time)
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“Content Independence Day”: the day the web said “enough is enough”
Today, July 1, 2025, Cloudflare officially declared “Content Independence Day” with the launch of “Pay per Crawl”, its new tool that allows website owners to charge AI crawlers for accessing their content. As a DevOps Manager who manages web infrastructures daily, I can say it was about time.
And the numbers don’t lie: while Google maintains a ratio of 18 crawls for every referral it sends (which is already brutal compared to 6:1 from six months ago), OpenAI has a ratio of 1,500:1 and Anthropic reaches 73,000:1. Basically, they’re sucking up all our content without returning even a crumb of traffic.