Monetize AI

Enable AI product and Content Purchases

PayLayer is a free plugin that enables AI personal shoppers to buy your WooCommerce products and lets you charge AI to access your content.

How PayLayer Works

PayLayer uses x402 to let AI agents and bots pay for products and content on your site. It creates an AI-friendly experience that makes your site easy to crawl, understand, and transact with.

Required

Download and install the free PayLayer plugin for WordPress to get started in minutes.

Optional

activate PayLayer for WooCommerce to make your products easy for AI agents to discover and purchase.

Optional

3. Charge AI Agents and bots for Content Access

Require AI agents and bots to pay to crawl specific content. If the content is useful, AIs will pay to access it.

PayLayer is being developed for the following AI models:

DeepSeek by DeepSeek AI
Gemini By Google
Paylayer is works for ChatGPT by OpenAI
Claude by Anthropics
Paylayer is works for Grok / xAI

Proven Infrastructure for AI Monetization

Our mission is to make your website easy for AI agents and bots to navigate, understand, and transact with. PayLayer enables AIs to purchase products and optionally pay for access to valuable content, using a proven AI monetization method called x402 that already processes over 75M monthly transactions.

Use Cases

PayLayer helps you turn AI traffic into revenue today, while preparing your site for how people and AI systems will interact with the web tomorrow.

Sell Your eCommerce Products Directly Through AI Chats

Increase eCommerce sales by allowing AI systems like to purchase your WooCommerce products on a user’s behalf. When users browse products through AI tools, the AI can identify purchasable items and complete the checkout directly. Only a few AI systems support this today.

Get Paid When AI Bots Crawls The Content on Your Website

Protect and monetize your content by requiring AI bots and agents to pay before crawling specific pages. Instead of your content being scraped and reused for free, PayLayer lets you earn from AI access while staying in control of what’s available.

Prepare Your Website for the Upcoming AI Driven Web

PayLayer doesn’t change the experience for human visitors, it only enhances access for AI agents. PayLayer is free, has no downsides, and is continuously updated to stay compatible with the latest AI systems.

Making Websites Usable for AI Agents

Most online payments are built for humans, not software. Credit cards introduce friction, high minimums, and workflows that don’t work for AI-driven interactions. PayLayer uses an internet-native payment rail that lets AI agents transact programmatically, making your website easier for AIs to use, understand, and pay with.

Read Our Blog

  • How to Implement HTTP 402 Payments on a Website

    How to Implement HTTP 402 Payments on a Website

    HTTP 402 (Payment Required) isn’t new, but it’s getting real attention in 2026 for a different reason. It tells a site visitor there’s a cost to reach the resource. Not a permission issue. A payment issue. It’s direct: “Pay first.” Here’s the interesting part. Site owners can apply 402 to bots like AI crawlers…

  • How to Require ChatGPT to Pay for Crawling Website Content

    How to Require ChatGPT to Pay for Crawling Website Content

    ChatGPT forms answers from licensed sources, what people type in, and live web pages fetched through its browsing tools. It’s not just a big offline library. It reaches out in real time, pulls short excerpts, and uses them to complete a response, so a site’s content might end up feeding those answers without anyone…

  • How to require Claude to pay before crawling selected WordPress content

    How to require Claude to pay before crawling selected WordPress content

    Claude AI often pulls content from public web pages to answer questions, which chips away at the value of gated posts. It usually sends an HTTP GET request to the page URL or uses a retrieval tool, then parses the returned HTML or text. If a paywall notice or a 402 Payment Required response…

Install PayLayer Today, it’s Completely Free

PayLayer was built for our own internal needs, and we decided to release it publicly because we believe this infrastructure should be accessible to everyone as the AI-driven web evolves.