Cloudflare Monetization Gateway beta: charge agents for APIs & MCP via HTTP 402
Cloudflare’s closed-beta Monetization Gateway lets U.S. sellers charge AI agents per request for sites, APIs, MCP tools, or datasets using HTTP 402 / x402 (USDC on Base via Coinbase’s facilitator)—no checkout redirect. Early production paths include AI Gateway pay-per-inference, Ceramic.ai search, Stocktwits signals, and API2PDF.