Cloudflare wants to charge AI agents per request, eyeing a ~$200B machine-payment prize
LexSokolin · x · 2026-10-29
Cloudflare, which fronts roughly a quarter of the web, now wants to charge AI agents for each request. If machine payments route through infrastructure like Cloudflare instead of checkout pages, the addressable opportunity is estimated at around $200B — positioning the infra layer as the tollbooth for the agent economy.
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