# Cloudflare — Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402

- Company: Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-30T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: product-launch
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway-beta/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17800-monetization-gateway-beta-charge-ai-agents-for-consumption-with-http-402
- Subject: Cloudflare AI

Cloudflare made its Monetization Gateway available in a closed beta, letting domain owners charge AI agents for access to their websites, APIs, MCP tools, or datasets. The company also showcased four customer use cases that are in production today.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway-beta/:

> With just a few clicks, the Monetization Gateway allows domain owners to charge agents for access to their website, APIs, MCP tools, or datasets.

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