# Cloudflare — Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid

- Company: Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-30T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/pay-per-use/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17801-pay-per-use-when-ai-uses-your-work-you-should-get-paid
- Subject: Cloudflare AI

Cloudflare announced the beta of Pay Per Use, a system that lets publishers get paid when AI companies use their content. AI companies define the use and set a price; publishers choose which offers to accept. Cloudflare handles billing and payment, and publishers can track usage and earnings in the Cloudflare dashboard.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://blog.cloudflare.com/pay-per-use/:

> Pay Per Use lets publishers make their content available to identified AI companies on terms that turn downstream use into revenue. Publishers choose which programs to join and retain control over crawler access and downstream uses.

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