The Cloudflare Monetization Gateway is an engine that will give Cloudflare customers the ability to charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare: web pages, datasets, APIs, or MCP tools.

It will provide a single control plane to manage payment policies and access controls across your applications, while also protecting your origin from high payment volumes by handling payment verification and enforcement at the edge. At launch, payments will settle in stablecoins over x402, the open protocol they are building with a coalition of more than 25 industry leaders via the x402 Foundation.

The Monetization Gateway will provide a flexible payment rules API that will allow you to express exactly when you want a caller to pay to access your digital resources.

Here’s how it will work. Tokens, APIs, MCP tool calls, and data already flow through that path. You will decide, as precisely as you want, which of that traffic has to pay. And you will be able to enforce your decisions by writing expressions, similar to expressions that you already write for other Cloudflare rules, in a simple, dedicated product API. The Monetization Gateway will scale with Cloudflare’s global network across 330 cities, which means that the x402 handshake will occur in close proximity to your buyer. This will reduce request latency and protect your origin.

Source: Cloudflare