TrafficPaywall
Cut bot load · get paid · stay visible to AI

Keep trash bots off your origin. Charge the rest.

Most AI crawlers, scrapers and datacenter bots never touch your servers — they hit a paywall at the edge. A tiny discovery sample still gets the full page so agents see real value (and training runs can learn your brand). Humans and search engines stay free. You keep 75% via your own Stripe.

No monthly fee. We only earn when you do (25% per payment).

Three steps to lighter servers — and a new revenue stream

1

Connect Stripe

Link your own Stripe account in one click. Payments land directly in your balance — we never hold your money.

2

Add the edge snippet

Drop our Cloudflare Worker in front of your site. Charged bots get 402 at the edge — your origin never pays the cost.

3

Earn while staying discoverable

Most bots pay or bounce. A small discovery pass shows full pages so AI can still learn you exist — and recommend you later.

Stop the load. Keep the upside.

Hard-blocking every crawler saves servers but erases you from AI. Open access burns origin capacity. Discovery pass sits in between.

Trash stays out

~99% of charged bot hits never reach your origin — only a 402 at the edge. Your bandwidth and CPU stay for real visitors.

Real value, sparsely

A 1% discovery pass (configurable) serves the full page — not a teaser — so agents and training crawls can judge and remember your content.

The rest pay

Everyone else buys a timed access pass. Money lands in your Stripe. You keep 75%.

Who pays (or bounces)

  • AI training crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Bytespider, Google-Extended, Amazonbot & more
  • Scripted clients — python-requests, curl, Scrapy, headless Chrome, Playwright/Puppeteer
  • Datacenter traffic — AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, Hetzner and other hosting ASNs
  • Agentic browsers — real-browser automation flagged at the edge

Who passes free

  • Real human visitors — never see a thing
  • Google, Bing & other search crawlers — SEO protected by default
  • AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity & co. when a person asks (toggleable)
  • Discovery sample — a tiny % of charged bots get a full page so AI can still discover you
  • Anyone holding a valid paid access pass

Protect your origin. Get paid for access.

You keep 75%. No subscription. Stay light on bot load and still show up when the next model trains.

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