# Cloudflare AI Crawl Control reviewed: see, allow, block and charge AI crawlers

> Cloudflare AI Crawl Control (formerly AI Audit) lets a site owner see which AI services fetch their content, allow or block individual crawlers with granular policies, and optionally charge for access via pay-per-crawl — all from the CDN edge in front of the site.

## What Cloudflare AI Crawl Control does

Cloudflare AI Crawl Control (formerly AI Audit) is an edge control panel for AI bot traffic. Per Cloudflare's docs it lets a site owner (1) see which AI services access their content, (2) allow/block individual crawlers with granular policies, and (3) explore pay-per-crawl monetization. Enforcement runs at Cloudflare's edge, before the origin.

## Where it fits

An access-control + access-economics tool. It operationalizes /protocols/pay-per-crawl and identity checks that lean on /protocols/web-bot-auth. The crawlers it lists are catalogued in /crawlers; Cloudflare Radar's figures feed /state-of-the-agentic-web.

## Our take

The default place to enforce an AI-access decision if you already use Cloudflare; Radar is a canonical adoption source. It tells you who crawls and gates them — not whether your own site is agent-ready. Pair with a readiness check; decide allow/block/charge via /access-economics. Plans change — verify current features on the vendor page.