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Delx Commerce Step Budget Plan
x402
Delx Commerce Step Budget Plan is a paid API for AI agents from commerce.delx.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-01).
Splits a total millisecond time budget proportionally across ordered workflow steps using optional weights
Price / call$0.003
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How this service works
Pay-per-result APIs for agents. No signup. Exact price. Verifiable delivery. USDC on Base + Solana via x402.
Output
Returns a JSON object containing a plan array where each element includes the step name, its assigned weight, and its computed budget in milliseconds; also includes total step count, total budget in ms, and a schema identifier string.
Example use cases
Weighted pipeline timeout planning
“I have four steps in my agent: search, fetch, summarize, and respond. Summarize should get 3x the time of the others. Split a total budget of 8000ms across them accordingly.”
Equal-weight step scheduling
“My workflow has five stages: load, validate, transform, enrich, and store. Give each stage an equal share of a 10-second total budget.”
Two-step latency budget for SLA compliance
“I need to stay under 2000ms total across my agent's two steps — 'retrieve' and 'generate'. Allocate the budget so retrieve gets half the time of generate.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://commerce.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/step-budget-plan?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when an AI agent or orchestrator needs to programmatically split a known total latency or time budget across named pipeline stages with optional weighting — particularly useful for enforcing SLA-aware step-level timeouts in multi-step agent workflows. It is ideal over manual math when weights are uneven or step counts change dynamically.
Side effects
- Missing or empty steps array returns an error
- Mismatched length between steps and weights arrays may cause incorrect allocation
- Non-numeric total_budget_ms causes a validation error
- Payment failure via x402 (insufficient USDC balance) blocks the request
- Zero or negative total_budget_ms produces undefined behavior
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| steps | array | Ordered workflow step names to allocate the total budget across. |
| weights | array | Optional relative weights aligned with steps; equal weights if omitted. |
| total_budget_ms | number | Total millisecond budget to split across steps. |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"plan": [
{
"step": "fetch",
"weight": 1,
"budget_ms": 750
},
{
"step": "parse",
"weight": 2,
"budget_ms": 1500
},
{
"step": "decide",
"weight": 1,
"budget_ms": 750
}
],
"schema": "delx/util-step-budget-plan/v1",
"step_count": 3,
"total_budget_ms": 3000
}
}Tags
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