AIAI monetization · crypto-settled

Turn AI crawler traffic into revenue

GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot already read your pages — and pay nothing for the bandwidth. Adgora flips that: publishers charge per crawl, AI companies get licensed content through one key, advertisers reach audiences inside AI answers.

PublishersCharge AI bots per crawl AI companies & agentsOne key for the whole network AdvertisersBe the answer AI gives

46AI crawlers and agents recognised $0.002default price per crawl 70%of every paid crawl to the publisher $0.005per licensed content extract

01For publishers

Charge AI crawlers per crawl

Install the drop-in adgate.php on your site — one file, any PHP stack, no framework required. You set the per-crawl price; the gateway does the rest.

AI crawlers and agents with a prepaid Adgora key pass and are billed per request.
Unpaid bots get HTTP 402 Payment Required with instructions on how to obtain access.
Earn from GPTBot, ClaudeBot & PerplexityBot instead of paying for their bandwidth.
Human visitors and search crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot) are never challenged — SEO is unaffected.
Fails open: if Adgora is unreachable, bots pass and your site never breaks.

Set up in the cabinet

What happens on every request

Request to your pageadgate.php checks the User-Agent

200
Human or search enginePage served as usual
200
AI bot with a keyServed, crawl billed, you earn 70%
402
AI bot without a keyPayment required, how to get access

Three modes per site

paywall

Paywall

Default. Paid bots pass, unpaid get 402.

free

Free

Every AI bot passes; visits are still counted.

block

Block

AI bots are refused outright.

Install: first line of your entry script

# download adgate.php from the cabinet (it carries your secret site key), keep it outside the web root
<?php
require __DIR__ . '/adgate.php';   // first line of index.php

; or for every script — in php.ini
auto_prepend_file = /path/outside/webroot/adgate.php

Estimate AI crawl earnings

Look up how often AI bots hit your site in your server logs, then set the prices you would charge.

AI crawls a month

AI agent visits a month

Price per crawl

Price per agent visit

your share a month, if every bot pays

From crawls
From agent visits
Paid by AI companies
A year

Upper bound: bots without a key get 402 and pay nothing. Your share is 70% of each paid request.

Set up in the cabinet

02For AI companies & agents

One key unlocks the whole network

A single prepaid Adgora key gives your crawler, agent or product paid access to every gated site in the network plus a clean, licensed content API — no per-site negotiations.

Paid crawl access — send X-Adgora-Key with your requests and crawl legally at publisher-set prices.
Licensed content API — site catalog at /ai/v1/sites, clean markdown extracts at /ai/v1/content?url=, $0.005 per extract.
MCP endpoint — https://api.adgora.net/mcp speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 with tools sponsored_search, fetch_content, list_offers.
Crypto prepaid — top up with USDT, USDC and 50+ other coins; every crawl or API call debits the key.

x402 micropayments (USDC on Base) — coming soon

Get an API key

HTTP · 402

# Without a key: payment required
$ curl -i https://gated-site.example/article
HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required
{"error":"payment_required","accepts":[{"type":"adgora-key","header":"X-Adgora-Key"}]}

# With a prepaid Adgora key: content served, crawl billed
$ curl -i -H "X-Adgora-Key: ak_XXXX:YOUR_SECRET" https://gated-site.example/article
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Content API
# Which sites are licensed
$ curl https://api.adgora.net/ai/v1/sites

# Licensed markdown extract — $0.005 per request
$ curl -H "X-Adgora-Key: ak_XXXX:YOUR_SECRET" \
    "https://api.adgora.net/ai/v1/content?url=https://gated-site.example/article"
{"url":"…","title":"…","markdown":"…","charged_usd":"0.005000"}

MCP · JSON-RPC 2.0

# Call a tool over MCP (JSON-RPC 2.0)
$ curl https://api.adgora.net/mcp -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/call",
  "params": { "name": "sponsored_search", "arguments": { "query": "best crypto wallet" } }
}'

Keys look like ak_…:secret and are created in the cabinet; the secret is shown once.

03For advertisers

Be the answer AI assistants give

AI assistants are becoming a traffic source of their own. Adgora lets you buy presence in that funnel the same way you buy clicks today.

Open advertiser dashboard

AI-referral targeting

Premium visitors arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity and other assistants — human, high-intent traffic, priced at 2× the zone floor.

GEO native placements

Content placements written to be read — and cited — by LLM crawlers.

AI Share-of-Voice

Track how often assistants mention your brand versus competitors, one check per query and engine a day.

04Bot directory

46 AI bots the gateway recognises

Matched by User-Agent token. Crawlers index content for training and search; agents browse on behalf of a person. Search engines like Googlebot are not on this list and are never challenged.

Shown: 46

Anthropic

claudebotcrawler
claude-searchbotcrawler
claude-webagent
claude-useragent
anthropic-aicrawler

OpenAI

gptbotcrawler
oai-searchbotcrawler
chatgpt-useragent
operator-openaiagent

Google

google-extendedcrawler
googleothercrawler
google-cloudvertexbotcrawler

Perplexity

perplexitybotcrawler
perplexity-useragent
perplexity-cometagent

Webz.io

omgilibotcrawler
omgilicrawler
webzio-extendedcrawler

Amazon

amazonbotcrawler
novaactagent

ByteDance

bytespidercrawler
tiktokspidercrawler

Cohere

cohere-aicrawler
cohere-training-data-crawlercrawler

Huawei

petalbotcrawler
pangubotcrawler

xAI

grokbotcrawler
xai-botcrawler

Ai2

ai2botcrawler

Apple

applebot-extendedcrawler

Browser Use

browser-useagent

Common Crawl

ccbotcrawler

DeepSeek

deepseekbotcrawler

Diffbot

diffbotcrawler

DuckDuckGo

duckassistbotagent

img2dataset

img2datasetcrawler

Kangaroo LLM

kangaroo botcrawler

Liner

linerbotcrawler

Microsoft

bingbot-chatagent

Mistral AI

mistralai-useragent

Senti

sentibotcrawler

Timpi

timpibotcrawler

You.com

youbotcrawler

05For developers

Endpoints & machine-readable resources

Resource	Address	Price
Answers API	`https://api.adgora.net/ai/v1/answers?q=`	free; clicks billed to advertisers
MCP (JSON-RPC 2.0) `sponsored_search` `fetch_content` `list_offers`	`https://api.adgora.net/mcp`	free
Content API	`https://api.adgora.net/ai/v1/content?url=`	$0.005 per extract
Sites catalog	`https://api.adgora.net/ai/v1/sites`	free
Offers catalog	`https://adgora.net/ai/offers.json`	free
Agents pointer	`https://adgora.net/agents.txt`	free
llms.txt	`https://adgora.net/llms.txt`	free

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What happens to normal visitors and Google?

Nothing. adgate.php only challenges known AI crawlers and agents. Human visitors and search-engine crawlers such as Googlebot and Bingbot pass untouched, so rankings and UX are unaffected.

How do publishers get paid?

Every paid crawl is billed at the price you set and your share is credited to your Adgora balance in real time. You withdraw in crypto exactly like other Adgora earnings.

How do AI companies pay?

With prepaid Adgora keys funded in USDT, USDC or 50+ other coins. Each crawl or API request debits the key at the publisher- or network-set price. x402 micropayments (USDC on Base) are coming soon.

What is the MCP endpoint?

https://api.adgora.net/mcp is a Model Context Protocol server (JSON-RPC 2.0) exposing sponsored_search, fetch_content and list_offers — AI assistants can plug the Adgora network in directly as a tool.

Is there a machine-readable catalog?

Yes. https://adgora.net/ai/offers.json lists active offers and all endpoints; /agents.txt and /llms.txt describe access rules for automated clients.

Where do I manage keys and prices?

Everything — publisher gateway setup, per-crawl pricing, API keys, deposits and statistics — lives in the cabinet at https://my.adgora.net/ai.

Ready to get paid for AI traffic?

Publishers install one file and set a price. AI companies get one key for the whole network. Deposits and payouts in crypto.

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