AI Crawlers Exhaust Free Tier Quotas
YvesMulkers · x · 2026-07-11
A bot analytics team discovered that their Cloudflare Workers free quota was exhausted in just 7 hours. The cause wasn't an attack, but AI crawlers.
The post specifically calls out crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Perplexity, which are also mixed in with real user traffic in the same GA4 property, leading to distorted website traffic statistics.
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