GitVibes daily briefing · 2026-10-01 · systems
AI Gateway - Pay for AI inference with Machine Payments
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AI Gateway now supports Machine Payments in beta. With Machine Payments, clients can use the x402 protocol to pay for eligible inference requests directly from a stablecoin wallet instead of maintaining a prepaid credit balance. Machine Payments is available for the /ai/run endpoint with select open models. To request x402 payment, authenticate with a…
Original reporting: Cloudflare developer changelog · Published 2026-09-30