josusanzAI companies have scraped your content for years. Free. Without asking permission.
HTTP 402 says: not anymore.
Live demo: https://pay-per-crawl-demo.license-proxy.workers.dev
Repo: https://github.com/Josusanz/pay-per-crawl-worker
How it works:
GPTBot hits your site → 402 Payment Required + your price
They accept → 200 OK + charge recorded
They don't → blocked
15 crawlers supported. Googlebot & Bingbot always pass free. SEO intact.
No real money flows yet — AI companies haven't implemented the paying side.
But deploy NOW. When Cloudflare opens payments, sites already speaking HTTP 402 collect first.
Free on Cloudflare Workers. Open source. MIT.