AI Crawl Licence

<p class="text-muted-foreground mb-8">Last updated: 29 August 2026 · Version 1.0</p> <p>This page states the terms on which automated clients may access content on Misar.Blog. It is the human-readable counterpart to the machine-readable offer served with an <code>HTTP 402 Payment Required</code> response, and to <a href="/license.xml">/license.xml</a>. Where the two describe the same thing, they are intended to say the same thing; if they ever diverge, this page governs.</p> <h2>1. Access is not blocked. It is priced.</h2> <p>We do not serve a blanket <code>Disallow</code> to AI crawlers. Most automated access is free, and the crawlers that surface and cite our writers' work are deliberately never gated. A charge applies only to bulk retrieval for model training.</p> <h3>Free, and intended to stay free</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Search indexing</strong> — Googlebot, Bingbot, Applebot and comparable index crawlers.</li> <li><strong>Citation and answer engines</strong> — OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and comparable crawlers that link back to the source.</li> <li><strong>User-triggered agents</strong> — an assistant fetching a page because a person asked for that page.</li> </ul> <p>These are how readers and writers find each other. Charging for them would cost our writers more than it earned them.</p> <h3>Metered</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Model-training and bulk corpus crawlers</strong> — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot and comparable clients.</li> </ul> <h2>2. Price</h2> <table> <thead><tr><th>Unit</th><th>Price</th></tr></thead> <tbody> <tr><td>One article fetch</td><td>$0.02 USDC</td></tr> <tr><td>Any other metered fetch</td><td>$0.01 USDC</td></tr> </tbody> </table> <p>The price for a specific request is always the amount advertised in that request's own 402 response — in the <code>accepts[]</code> array of the JSON body, in the <code>PAYMENT-REQUIRED</code> header, and in the <code>crawler-price</code> header. Where this page and a live 402 disagree, the 402 is the offer.</p> <h2>3. How to pay</h2> <p>We implement <strong>x402</strong> (version 2). A metered request returns <code>402</code> with a <code>PaymentRequired</code> object describing the offer. Retry the same request with a signed <code>X-PAYMENT</code> authorization and, once it verifies and settles, the content is returned.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Network:</strong> Base mainnet (<code>eip155:8453</code>)</li> <li><strong>Asset:</strong> USDC (<code>0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913</code>)</li> <li><strong>Pay to:</strong> <code>0x90fBE217fa449253AC8B893852CA1DcA43e231Ec</code></li> <li><strong>Authorization window:</strong> 120 seconds</li> </ul> <p>Payment is verified and settled before content is served. An absent, malformed, unverifiable or unsettled authorization returns <code>402</code> again — never the content. We do not extend credit and we do not serve first and bill later.</p> <h2>4. What a paid fetch grants</h2> <p>Payment for a fetch grants a licence to retrieve and to use that specific content for model training, for the entity that paid. It is granted per fetch: it is not a subscription, not a site licence, and not transferable to another party.</p> <p>It does <strong>not</strong> grant the right to republish the work, to present it as your own, or to redistribute it as a standalone corpus. Copyright remains with the author. Nothing here waives an author's moral rights or any right that cannot be waived by contract.</p> <h2>5. Where the money goes</h2> <p>Crawl revenue is shared with the writer whose work was fetched, on the same basis as every other revenue stream on this platform: <strong>75% to the writer, 25% to the platform</strong>. We distribute what we actually receive — no more, and no less.</p> <h2>6. Honest limits</h2> <p>We would rather state these than have you discover them.</p> <ul> <li>Our impression and crawl counts are our own measurements. They will not exactly match yours, and we do not claim otherwise.</li> <li>A 402 is not a claim that every gated fetch was unauthorised — it is a request to license bulk training access, nothing more.</li> <li>If you believe your crawler is misclassified, tell us. Misclassification is a bug, and we would rather fix it than argue about it.</li> </ul> <h2>7. Alternatives to per-fetch payment</h2> <p>If per-fetch payment does not suit your operation, we are open to a bulk or corpus licence, and to a negotiated rate. We would rather reach an agreement than serve you a 402 forever.</p> <h2>8. Contact</h2> <p>Licensing enquiries, misclassification reports and dispute notices: <a href="mailto:licensing@misar.blog">licensing@misar.blog</a>.</p>