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Machine Shop – Provider Preflight
x402
Machine Shop – Provider Preflight is a paid API for AI agents from api.pay-forge.online, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-20).
Previews the cost, inputs, and evidence for a document analysis or x402 API call before committing payment
Price / call$0.01
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Turn Apify product scrape results into safe catalog updates with Catalog Update Gate. Find evidence in supplied documents, compare snapshots, extract typed JSON fields, inspect x402 quotes and assess API migrations. Preview inputs, evidence and cost for free. No live web search, scheduled monitoring or third-party purchasing.
Output
Returns a JSON preview including the estimated cost, evidence found in supplied documents, fields that would be extracted, and an inspection of the x402 challenge — all without executing a live paid call or triggering any side effects.
Example use cases
x402 quote inspection before payment
“I got an x402 payment quote from an API and I want to inspect it before accepting — can you run a preflight check on this challenge object and tell me what it's actually asking for and what it would cost?”
Document evidence preview before analysis
“Before I pay for the full document analysis, can you do a free preflight pass on these documents and show me what evidence would be surfaced and which JSON fields would be extracted?”
API migration cost assessment
“I'm thinking of migrating to a new API — can you run a preflight check on the challenge to assess whether the migration looks viable and what the cost ceiling would be, keeping the max at 10000 atomic units?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://api.pay-forge.online/v2/provider-preflight?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you want a zero-cost, no-side-effect preview of what a paid Machine Shop operation would do — ideal for validating x402 quotes, checking document evidence, or estimating costs before committing USDC. Not suitable if you need live web search, real-time monitoring, or third-party purchasing.
Side effects
- Invalid or malformed challenge object returns a validation error
- maximum_amount_atomic exceeds 1,000,000,000 returns a 422 range error
- Missing required challenge field returns a 400 bad request
- Unsupported challenge type may return an empty or partial preview
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| challenge | object | |
| maximum_amount_atomic | — |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json"
}Tags
x402
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