Cloudflare Launches AI Payment Gateway to Charge Agents for Digital Resources

Cloudflare has announced the closed beta of its Monetization Gateway, a new service that enables businesses to charge AI agents for access to digital resources based on actual usage. The service is designed to support the growing use of AI agents to browse websites, access application programming interfaces (APIs), use digital tools and retrieve data on behalf of users. Rather than relying on traditional subscriptions, accounts or prepaid balances, agents can discover prices, make payments and a