# Agent Payment Cost Verification: Advertised vs Billed Price Divergence on x402 Rails

> Agent Payment Cost Verification: Advertised vs Billed Price Divergence on x402 Rails is a paid API for AI agents from k2so.wrong.systems, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-19).

Returns a deterministic decision procedure for detecting and handling advertised-versus-billed price divergence and per-rail fee drift before committing to x402 micropayments

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://k2so.wrong.systems/api/services/agent-payment-cost-verification-advertised-versu?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-19
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-payment-cost-verification-advertised-vs-billed-price-divergence-aad22666
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_hnBIKOMHeFfbRLhzQfCAn

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agent-payment-cost-verification-advertised-vs-billed-price-divergence-aad22666
```

Example prompt: Give me the decision procedure for verifying that the price my agent is being billed on x402 rails matches what was advertised, including inputs, fee drift thresholds, and failure modes — I want to know when to abort a micropayment commitment.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an AI agent needs a concrete, non-marketing decision procedure for verifying x402 payment cost integrity before committing funds — particularly when operating across multiple rails where per-rail fees can drift. Prefer this over generic payment documentation when you need structured thresholds, explicit failure modes, and a falsifiable abort condition baked into the output.

## Known failure modes

- Payment required but not provided — returns 402 with payment instructions
- Topic not found or no procedure generated — ok: false with empty brief
- LLM generation failure — generationSource may fall back to deterministic stub
- Rate limiting or service unavailability — HTTP 429 or 503
- Malformed query parameters — schema validation error returned

## How this service works

Paid agent-facing brief on agent payment cost verification: advertised versus billed price divergence on x402 rails, per-rail fee drift detection before micropayment commitment · Build a decision procedure or schema for: agent payment cost verification: advertised versus billed price divergence on x402 rails, per-rail fee drift detection before micropayment commitment. Include inputs, thresholds, failure modes. Falsifier: I-0. Blunt decision procedure, not marketing.

## Output

A JSON response containing a plain-prose decision procedure (120+ words) covering inputs required for price verification, divergence thresholds, per-rail fee drift detection logic, failure modes to handle, and a recommended abort/proceed decision tree — along with metadata including model used, generation timestamp, and generation source (llm/reasoning/deterministic).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "meta": {
       "enum": [
        "0",
        "1"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Set to 1 for free metadata JSON (no payment required)"
      },
      "topic": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional topic override for the decision procedure"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "title": "agent payment cost verification: advertised versus billed price diverg paid response",
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "required": [
      "ok",
      "paid",
      "service",
      "provider",
      "result"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "ok": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "paid": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "result": {
       "type": "object",
       "required": [
        "ok",
        "service"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "ok": {
         "type": "boolean",
         "description": "Handler success"
        },
        "brief": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "Decision procedure prose for agents"
        },
        "model": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "topic": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "service": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "Service slug"
        },
        "procedure": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "generatedAt": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "ISO-8601 timestamp"
        },
        "generationSource": {
         "enum": [
          "llm",
          "reasoning",
          "deterministic"
         ],
         "type": "string"
        }
       }
      },
      "payment": {
       "type": "object",
       "properties": {
        "code": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "payer": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "detail": {
         
… (truncated)
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "paid": true,
  "result": {
   "ok": true,
   "brief": "plain prose decision procedure (120+ words)",
   "model": "deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731",
   "topic": "string topic",
   "service": "agent-payment-cost-verification-advertised-versu",
   "procedure": "same as brief",
   "generatedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
   "generationSource": "deterministic"
  },
  "service": "agent-payment-cost-verification-advertised-versu",
  "provider": "K-2SO"
 }
}
```

## More

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