The settlement layer for the agentic internet.
Every agent payment today is hand-wired by a human. PayGate402 is the per-call settlement rail for the agentic internet — Stripe-class infrastructure that any agent, marketplace, or coordinator can drop in. Bring your own discovery; we handle the money.
GET /weather/sf
tx_a91c…2fThe web monetized humans.
Agents pay nothing.
Ads, subscriptions, checkout forms, and sales-led API access assume a human is on the other end. Autonomous agents break every assumption.
Ads do not monetize machines
Autonomous agents do not see banners, watch pre-roll, accept cookies, or click retargeting funnels.
Subscriptions require humans
Signup, billing, API key approval, and seat management break machine-to-machine discovery.
The protocol already has a door
HTTP 402 lets APIs quote a price before serving a paid resource. PayGate makes it usable for agents.
Block less. Charge more.
Turn scraping, crawling, and agent lookups into priced, verified, metered transactions.
Four steps.
Sub-second. Atomic.
A machine-native payment loop built on HTTP 402. Agents discover the price, wallets apply policy, providers verify proof, and the payload unlocks.
GET /weather/sf HTTP/1.1
Host: api.weather.io
User-Agent: atlas-browser-agent/1.7▍Watch agents pay.
Then unleash the swarm.
A stage-ready simulation: switch business models, run a single paid request, trigger an agent swarm, and watch revenue, policy, proof, and settlement move together.
Pick a scenario, run one request, then hit Agent Swarm for demo theater.
Real providers.
Real priced routes.
PayGate becomes more convincing when the landing page shows concrete sellers: image generation, enrichment data, and code execution providers already earning per request.
Pixelshift Image API
Hosted FLUX + SDXL image generation, sub-2-sec latency
/api/v1/generate$0.003/call1,842 calls · $55.26 today/api/v1/upscale$0.002/call421 calls · $6.31 today/api/v1/inpaint$0.005/call89 calls · $4.45 todayLookup.dev Data API
Company + person enrichment from public sources
/api/v1/company/{domain}$0.001/call3,211 calls · $25.69 today/api/v1/person/{email}$0.001/call891 calls · $10.69 todayRunBox Code Exec
Sandboxed code execution: Python, Node, Rust, 50+ langs
/api/v1/exec$0.012/call142 calls · $17.04 todayProviders earn.
Agents pay safely.
PayGate is not just middleware. It is a payments loop for both sides of the machine internet.
Price any route
Five lines of middleware. Set per-route rates. Change them live without redeploying.
Verify payment proof
TEE-backed receipts mean you never deliver before funds are escrowed. Math, not trust.
Settle revenue
Daily payouts via Coinbase wallet (crypto) or Stripe bank transfer (fiat). Your choice.
Let agents pay.
Never lose budget control.
The buyer side matters: agent operators need balances, rails, spending velocity, and scoped budgets before they allow autonomous wallets to transact.
Multi-rail payments.
Escrow, refunds, and audit trails.
A serious agent-payment network needs rails, TEE-backed holds, refunds on timeout, and instant rejection when wallets cannot pay.
Use Coinbase x402 for crypto-native agents, Stripe MPP for fiat-native agents, or both. Your providers and agents pick per call.
tx_01HXYZ_a01agent_image_pipelinepixelshift/api/v1/generate$0.003settled1820mstx_01HXYZ_a02agent_research_bot_3lookup-dev/api/v1/company/{domain}$0.001settled412mstx_01HXYZ_a03agent_research_bot_3lookup-dev/api/v1/person/{email}$0.001settled387mstx_01HXYZ_a04agent_codereviewrunbox/api/v1/exec$0.012settled2410mstx_01HXYZ_a05agent_image_pipelinepixelshift/api/v1/upscale$0.002settled1640mstx_01HXYZ_a06agent_image_pipelinepixelshift/api/v1/inpaint$0.005settled3120mstx_01HXYZ_a07agent_research_bot_3lookup-dev/api/v1/company/{domain}$0.001refunded30200mstx_01HXYZ_a08agent_codereviewrunbox/api/v1/exec$0.012settled2890mstx_01HXYZ_a09agent_research_bot_3lookup-dev/api/v1/company/{domain}$0.001rejected12mstx_01HXYZ_a10agent_image_pipelinepixelshift/api/v1/generate$0.003settled1750msReal-time revenue,
per machine.
Every paid request is itemized, signed, routed, and settled. Providers see which agents paid, which endpoints converted, and how much stablecoin is ready to sweep.
/api/v1/generate/api/v1/upscale/api/v1/inpaint/api/v1/generate/api/v1/company/{domain}/api/v1/person/{email}/api/v1/exec/api/v1/upscale$4,873.00
coinbase_x402 + stripe_mpp · $0.87 pending
Every expensive route
becomes a priced product.
PayGate 402 turns agent traffic from a cost center into a measurable, policy-controlled revenue stream.
APIs
Charge agents for premium routes, high-cost computations, and low-latency data.
Publishers
Let research agents access full articles without ads, scraping, or subscription gates.
Data vendors
Sell market, weather, map, compliance, and scientific datasets one call at a time.
AI platforms
Give tool-using agents a safe payment rail with spending limits and proof logs.
Every payment event
delivered to your stack.
Signed webhooks turn PayGate into infrastructure for billing, support, analytics, dispute workflows, and revenue operations.
{
"tx_id": "tx_01HXYZ_a01",
"amount_micro_usd": 3000,
"rail": "coinbase_x402",
"settled_at": "2026-05-13T18:42:11Z"
}Start free.
Scale with transaction volume.
Simple SaaS pricing plus per-transaction economics. Use Coinbase x402, Stripe MPP, or both rails side-by-side.
Free
$0Forever, no card required
1 provider · 1k tx/month · community support- Both rails included (Coinbase x402 + Stripe ACP)
- TEE-backed escrow on every tx
- Public ledger view
- 30-day audit log retention
Growth
$99per month + 0.5% per tx
10 providers · unlimited tx · email support- Everything in Free
- Multi-route per provider (unlimited routes)
- Webhook notifications (Slack / Discord / custom)
- 1-year audit log retention
- Priority queue on TEE escrow (sub-50ms)
- Refund SLA: 1 hour vs default 24h
Scale
Contact usCustom pricing + 0.25% per tx
Unlimited providers + tx · SLA · dedicated CSM- Everything in Growth
- Private TEE Enclave (AWS Nitro dedicated)
- Custom rail integrations (your own bank rails)
- Multi-tenant workspaces
- SOC2 + PCI-DSS evidence packs
- Quarterly business reviews
- On-prem deployment option
Which plan fits your scale?
Three quick questions — we'll recommend a starting point. No signup.
Default fit for most API publishers — both rails, webhooks, fast refund SLA, 1-year retention.
How many API calls per month do you expect from agents?
Which payment rail does your audience prefer?
What's your team size?
One line of
middleware.
Drop PayGate 402 into an existing API. Pricing, challenges, retries, proof validation, metering, and settlement records are handled for you.
from paygate402 import require_payment
from fastapi import FastAPI
app = FastAPI()
@app.get("/api/v1/generate")
@require_payment(amount_usd=0.003, currency="USDC")
async def generate_image(prompt: str):
# Your existing handler — middleware handles all the 402 dance
image_url = await flux.generate(prompt)
return {"url": image_url}Questions finance,
security, and devs will ask.
The trust questions matter as much as the protocol. These answers make the payment loop feel safe to ship.
Start charging machines today.
Five minutes to integration. Per-request revenue. No checkout forms. No ad model. No reason to block every agent by default.