WordPress plugin · From the ClearDesk SEO team

Your content trained the AI. Now make the AI pay.

Claude, GPT, and Perplexity crawl your WordPress site every day. They take what your content team built and feed it back to their users — and you see none of it. AgentPay charges them per request. Googlebot still crawls free. Humans browse normally.

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12+ AI agents identified
Zero impact on rankings
5 min install
Free forever
AgentPay last 30 days
$43.27
earned · 4,327 paid requests across 142 of your pages
Top paying agents
ClaudeBot2,109 req
GPTBot1,288 req
PerplexityBot740 req
CCBot190 req
Refunded · 5 broken pages–$0.84
Net to your bank$42.43
next Stripe payout · in 3 days
Sample · admin dashboard
Tools → AgentPay → Dashboard
Built for our own audit clients who kept asking "can you make the AI bots stop, or at least pay?" — the ClearDesk team
From the team behind ClearDesk SEO
1,200+ sites audited · same engineering bench
12+AI bot operators detected, growing each release
100%Googlebot, Bingbot, search crawlers untouched
5 minFrom upload to first paid agent request
GPL v2Open source, audit the code yourself
How it works

Five steps. One plugin.

Every AI bot request flows through the same pipeline. Search bots and humans bypass it entirely — the detector only intercepts requests it can identify as an AI agent.

01

Identify

ClaudeBot vs Googlebot vs a real visitor. The detector knows the difference. Only AI agents enter the flow.

02

Charge

AI bot gets a payment requirement instead of the content. The protocol exists — bots already know how to respond.

03

Verify

Payment runs through Coinbase. No card processors to integrate, no merchant accounts to apply for.

04

Deliver

Paid bot gets a session token. Browses normally for the next N pages, where you choose N.

05

Cash out

Settlements arrive in your wallet. Stripe converts to USD and deposits to your bank, like any payout.

Honest pricing

Free to download. 1% per settled transaction.

No subscription. No per-site licensing. No setup fees. The plugin is open source under GPL v2 — the 1% fee on settled transactions supports continued development, same model Stripe, Square, and every payment processor you already use takes.

v1.3.0 · stable
AgentPay
Open source WordPress plugin · GPL v2
$0 · forever
  • Unlimited sites & unlimited agent requests
  • Detects 12+ AI agents (and growing)
  • Per-content-type pricing — set your own rates
  • Session tokens with configurable TTL & budgets
  • Automatic refunds on 404, 5xx, timeout
  • Dispute REST endpoint with auto-approval
  • Abuse handling & per-bot rate limiting
  • USDC → USD via Stripe to your bank
  • Built-in setup guide in admin UI
  • Source code on GitHub, PRs welcome
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About the 1% fee: Settled transactions accrue a 1% fee in a pending counter. Once it crosses a configurable threshold (default $1.00), the plugin sweeps the accumulated amount from your wallet on a daily schedule. Sweeps and balances live in the Fees admin tab. If a transaction is refunded before the next sweep, the corresponding fee is automatically reversed — you're never charged on revenue you returned.
Frequently asked

Straight answers.

Don't see your question? Email support@cleardeskseo.com — a real person writes back, usually same day.

Will this hurt my Google rankings?
No. AgentPay treats Googlebot, Bingbot, and other major search crawlers as protected — they pass through without any 402 challenge. Your ranking signals, crawl budget, and indexing behavior are unchanged. Search-engine bots see exactly the site they saw before you installed the plugin.
What about human visitors?
Unaffected. The detector only intercepts requests it can identify as automated AI agents — either via cryptographic signature or known user-agent strings (ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot, and others). Real visitors never see the 402 challenge and never enter the payment flow.
What about Google's AI Overviews and SGE?
AI Overviews currently use Google's existing crawl infrastructure — they're treated as Googlebot traffic and pass through free. If Google publishes a separate identity for SGE-specific crawling in the future, you'll be able to choose whether to gate it from the admin UI.
Does it conflict with my SEO plugin?
No. AgentPay only intercepts requests from identified AI bots at the parse_request hook. Yoast, RankMath, SEOPress, and AIOSEO continue to run normally on the human-facing surface. Your meta titles, sitemaps, and schema markup are not affected at all.
What if I just want to block AI bots, not charge them?
You can. The detector identifies bots whether or not you've enabled the paywall. Disable the paywall toggle in admin and use the manual blocklist to drop bots entirely. AgentPay becomes a sophisticated robots.txt enforcer instead of a payment processor — same plugin, different posture.
Where do the payments actually go?
Into your own Base USDC wallet — your custody, your keys (or your Coinbase Business account). Stripe then handles USDC → USD conversion and bank deposit through your existing payouts setup. The plugin never holds money for third parties; ClearDesk SEO never touches your funds.
What if the agent paid and the page 404s?
Automatic refund. The plugin pushes the payment back to the agent's wallet via the Coinbase transfer API, and the 1% fee on that transaction reverses with it. Same treatment for 5xx errors and responses exceeding your configured timeout threshold. You don't keep money for content you didn't deliver.
How is the 1% fee actually collected?
The fee accrues per-transaction in a pending counter. Once it crosses a configurable threshold (default $1.00), a daily WordPress cron job sweeps the accumulated amount from your wallet to ClearDesk's wallet — using the same transfer API the refund flow uses. Sweeps are logged and visible in the Fees admin tab. You can also trigger manual sweeps from the same tab.
Why we built it

We kept seeing the same pattern in client audits.

Every ClearDesk SEO audit includes a crawl-stats breakdown. And on every modern site we audited in 2025, AI bots accounted for 25 to 40 percent of total crawl volume. None of it ranking the site. None of it driving traffic. All of it consuming content the client paid real money to produce.

AgentPay started as a feature request — clients asking "can you make the AI bots stop, or at least pay?" Two months later, this is what we shipped. Open source under GPL v2. Same engineering discipline as everything else we build. Same answer-the-email-yourself support.

Stop bleeding content.

Drop the zip into wp-content/plugins, walk through the Setup guide, and charge the next AI agent that hits your site. Most operators are running it within an hour.

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