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Agent Paycheck - x402 Pre-Payment Risk & Usefulness Check
x402
Agent Paycheck - x402 Pre-Payment Risk & Usefulness Check is a paid API for AI agents from agent-paycheck.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).
Evaluates whether an AI agent should pay for an x402-gated endpoint by assessing risk, usefulness, price fairness, and source reputation before committing funds.
Price / call$0.002
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Pre-payment risk and usefulness check for AI agents deciding whether to pay an x402 endpoint.
Output
Returns a structured risk and usefulness evaluation indicating whether the agent should proceed with payment, including signals on price fairness, source reputation, task relevance, and settlement history.
Example use cases
Example prompt
“Before I pay for this x402 endpoint, run a paycheck risk assessment on it — the task is 'get current weather data', the price is $0.05, the endpoint URL is https://example.com/weather, my max budget is $1.00, and here's its OpenAPI spec URL: https://example.com/openapi.json.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://agent-paycheck.onrender.com/v1/checkWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when an AI agent is operating autonomously within a budget and needs to decide whether to pay for an x402-gated resource. It is especially valuable when the agent has no prior knowledge of the endpoint's reputation, when the price is non-trivial relative to the task value, or when avoiding wasteful or malicious payments is a priority. Prefer this over blind payment when source reputation is unknown or settlement history is sparse.
Side effects
- Missing required fields like task or price_usd returns a validation error
- Unreachable or malformed endpoint_url may result in incomplete reputation scoring
- Unknown or unverifiable OpenAPI spec reduces confidence in output assessment
- Price or budget provided as invalid types may cause parsing errors
- Render cold-start latency may cause occasional slow responses on first call
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| task | string | |
| price_usd | — | |
| openapi_url | string | |
| endpoint_url | string | |
| input_schema | object | |
| output_schema | object | |
| max_budget_usd | — | |
| recent_activity | object | |
| source_reputation | object | |
| successful_settlements | — |
Tags
x402
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