Pricing

Per-Route Pricing

Set different prices for different sections of your site. The longest matching prefix wins.

pricing: {
  '/products': 0.002,    // $0.002 per product page
  '/blog':     0.001,    // $0.001 per blog post
  '/api/data': 0.005,    // $0.005 for API endpoints
}

When a crawler visits /products/shoes/nike-air, it matches /products and pays $0.002.

Default Price

Pages that don't match any prefix in pricing use the defaultPrice:

defaultPrice: 0.001  // $0.001 — the default if omitted

Free Routes

Routes that bypass payment, even for crawlers:

freeRoutes: ['/', '/about', '/pricing', '/contact']

Free routes are useful for landing pages, marketing content, and pages that help crawlers discover your paid content.

Discovery

The SDK auto-serves two discovery endpoints:

• /robots.txt — includes payment metadata so smart agents can pay proactively (1 request instead of 2)
• /.well-known/ai-pay — structured JSON manifest with routes, prices, and volume tier info