# Pay-Per-Crawl Economics Decision Brief for x402-Gated Websites

> Pay-Per-Crawl Economics Decision Brief for x402-Gated Websites is a paid API for AI agents from k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-16).

Returns a blunt, agent-facing decision procedure covering crawl depth vs cost budgeting, page-level payment verification, cache TTL reuse, and stop-loss thresholds for agents crawling Cloudflare-edge x402-gated sites.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev/api/services/pay-per-crawl-economics-for-agents-hitting-cloud?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/pay-per-crawl-economics-decision-brief-for-x402-gated-websites-f86175b7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Nbk1P_i8TH7cyL86oIN-7

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 pay-per-crawl-economics-decision-brief-for-x402-gated-websites-f86175b7
```

Example prompt: Give me the decision procedure for how my crawling agent should handle cost budgeting versus crawl depth when hitting x402-gated Cloudflare-edge pages — including when to stop based on a loss threshold and how to reuse cached pages to avoid paying twice.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when your agent needs concrete, opinionated guidance on economics and decision logic for x402 pay-per-crawl scenarios — specifically when balancing crawl depth against cost, verifying paid delivery, reusing cache to avoid duplicate payments, or enforcing stop-loss limits. Prefer this over generic crawling documentation when you need a blunt, agent-optimized decision procedure rather than marketing material.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid payment results in unpaid/gated response
- Topic override parameter ignored if malformed string
- LLM generation failure may return ok:false with no brief field
- Stale or cached brief may be returned if TTL not yet expired
- Service unavailable on provider infrastructure returns non-200 error

## How this service works

Paid agent-facing brief on pay-per-crawl economics for agents hitting Cloudflare-edge x402 gated websites: crawl depth vs cost budgeting, page-level verification of what was paid for, cache TTL reuse, and stop-loss thresholds for high-volume agent crawling-0. Blunt decision procedure, not marketing.

## Output

A generated decision procedure brief (prose and structured fields) covering: crawl depth vs cost budgeting rules, cache TTL reuse logic, page-level verification of paid content, and stop-loss thresholds for high-volume x402 agent crawling. Includes metadata such as generation source (llm/reasoning/deterministic), model name, topic, and ISO-8601 timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "meta": {
       "enum": [
        "0",
        "1"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Set to 1 for free metadata JSON (no payment required)"
      },
      "topic": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional topic override for the decision procedure"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "title": "pay-per-crawl economics for agents hitting Cloudflare-edge x402 gated paid response",
     "$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)
```

## More

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