{"summary":"500,000 AI scrapes a month at $1 per 1,000 is $500 gross: TollBit $500/month, Sphere.ai $500/month, ScalePost $425/month, Cloudflare pay-per-crawl $350/month. At Digital Trends' measured ratio (966 scrapes per human referral) that scraping sends back about 518 visitors a month.","monthly_scrapes":500000,"price_per_1000_usd":1,"gross_usd_per_month":500,"by_platform":[{"platform":"TollBit","keeps":1,"note":"publisher keeps 100% and sets the price per 1,000 pages","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/ai-content-licensing-market-publishers-double-bind/","usd_per_month":500,"usd_per_year":6000},{"platform":"Sphere.ai","keeps":1,"note":"publisher keeps 100%","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/ai-content-licensing-market-publishers-double-bind/","usd_per_month":500,"usd_per_year":6000},{"platform":"ScalePost","keeps":0.85,"note":"takes roughly 15%","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/ai-content-licensing-market-publishers-double-bind/","usd_per_month":425,"usd_per_year":5100},{"platform":"Cloudflare pay-per-crawl","keeps":0.7,"note":"estimated 30% cut","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/ai-content-licensing-market-publishers-double-bind/","usd_per_month":350,"usd_per_year":4200}],"best_take_rate":"TollBit (publisher keeps 100% and sets the price per 1,000 pages)","human_referrals_per_month":{"estimate":518,"basis":"Digital Trends: 4.1 million weekly bot scrapes produced 4,200 human referrals (966 to 1)","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/why-publishers-choose-tollbit-to-monitor-ai-bot-traffic/"},"prorata":{"note":"ProRata.ai splits subscription and advertising revenue 50/50 with publishers instead of charging per crawl.","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/ai-content-licensing-market-publishers-double-bind/"},"context":[{"fact":"Digital Trends monitors 4.1 million weekly scrapes through TollBit.","quote":"Digital Trends completed setup quickly and now monitors 4.1 million weekly scrapes, with ChatGPT accounting for 87.8 percent of bot traffic.","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/ai-revenue-platforms-comparison/","reported":"2026-01-07"},{"fact":"Digital Trends generates zero revenue from TollBit in its current monitoring-only setup.","quote":"But Digital Trends generates zero revenue from TollBit.","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/ai-revenue-platforms-comparison/","reported":"2026-01-07"},{"fact":"Digital Trends saw 4.1 million bot scrapes in one week.","quote":"Dan Gaul’s experience at Digital Trends illustrates the value: 4.1 million bot scrapes in one week delivered only 4,200 human referrals","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/why-publishers-choose-tollbit-to-monitor-ai-bot-traffic/","reported":"2025-12-30"},{"fact":"Those 4.1 million bot scrapes produced only 4,200 human referrals.","quote":"Dan Gaul’s experience at Digital Trends illustrates the value: 4.1 million bot scrapes in one week delivered only 4,200 human referrals","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/why-publishers-choose-tollbit-to-monitor-ai-bot-traffic/","reported":"2025-12-30"},{"fact":"Digital Trends measured a 966-to-1 extraction ratio of bot scrapes to human referrals.","quote":"Dan Gaul’s experience at Digital Trends illustrates the value: 4.1 million bot scrapes in one week delivered only 4,200 human referrals—a 966-to-1 extraction ratio","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/why-publishers-choose-tollbit-to-monitor-ai-bot-traffic/","reported":"2025-12-30"},{"fact":"ChatGPT accounted for 87.8 percent of all AI bot traffic at Digital Trends.","quote":"For Digital Trends, this revealed ChatGPT accounting for 87.8 percent of all AI bot traffic with 3.6 million monthly scrapes.","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/why-publishers-choose-tollbit-to-monitor-ai-bot-traffic/","reported":"2025-12-30"}],"sources":[{"title":"Two paths to AI revenue: Licensing bot access versus sharing ad income","url":"https://mediacopilot.ai/ai-revenue-platforms-comparison/","date":"2026-01-07"},{"title":"TollBit tracks bot traffic Google Analytics misses","url":"https://mediacopilot.ai/why-publishers-choose-tollbit-to-monitor-ai-bot-traffic/","date":"2025-12-30"},{"title":"New report finds wide disparity in AI tollbooths for publishers","url":"https://mediacopilot.ai/ai-content-licensing-market-publishers-double-bind/","date":"2026-05-31"}],"disclosure":"Sponsored tool by oasy.ai (test brand in an Oasy ad experiment). Facts come from The Media Copilot's reporting; each one links its article and quotes it.","docs":"https://www.oasy.ai/api/botmeter/dmin2qq3"}