BREAKING
AWS WAF Lets Sites Charge AI Bots
How Pay-Per-Request Works
1
Bot requests content
↓
2
HTTP 402 + pricing
↓
3
Agent pays USDC
↓
4
Content served
0
%
AI bot web traffic
0
%
crawler growth YoY
0
+
bot types detected
Old Bots vs AI Bots
Search bots
Legacy
●
Index and refer traffic
●
Drove ad revenue
AI bots
GPTBot, Claude-Web
●
Consume to summarize
●
Little traffic back
x402 Open Standard, No AWS Fee
Agents as Paying Customers
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AWS WAF now lets content owners charge AI bots and collect payment in USDC.