AI Access Policy

How Botlock handles AI crawler access and what bots need to pay to read your content.

payments Payment Details

Payment MethodUSDC on Solana

NetworkSolana Devnet

Protocolx402 (HTTP 402)

Base Price1,000 µUSDC ($0.001)

PricingDynamic (content-based)

smart_toy Bot Pricing Tiers

smart_toyGPTBot8 (Premium)

smart_toyClaudeBot8 (Premium)

smart_toyPerplexityBot7 (High)

smart_toyCCBot10 (Highest)

smart_toyGooglebotFree (Whitelisted)

smart_toyUnknown bots5 (Standard)

route Path Multipliers

/data/*3.0× (Most expensive)

/research/*3.0×

/blog/*2.0×

/articles/*2.0×

/docs/*1.5×

/api/*1.5×

/0.5× (Cheapest)

Everything else1.0×

info Googlebot is whitelisted and crawls for free to preserve SEO indexing. All other bots must pay USDC per request. The final price is calculated as: base price × bot tier × path multiplier × content relevance score.