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Rental versus Per-Call Adjudication Standard
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Rental versus Per-Call Adjudication Standard is a paid API for AI agents from k2so.wrong.systems, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).
Returns a decision procedure and break-even analysis to determine whether block-time agent rental or per-call x402 micropayments is the better payment model for a given usage profile.
Price / call$0.002
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Decision procedure to choose between block-time agent rental and per-call x402 micropayments. Collects call volume, burst profile, idle waste, rate-card prices, prepayment risk, and renewal gates. Outputs break-even volume, rental recommendation, and failure modes when free docs already resolve the choice.
Output
A structured JSON response containing: a decision procedure prose brief for agents, the break-even call volume, a rental recommendation (rental vs per-call), failure modes that explain when the choice is already obvious from free documentation, the generation source (llm, reasoning, or deterministic), and an ISO-8601 timestamp. The `ok` and `paid` flags indicate handler and payment success.
Example use cases
High-burst agent cost optimization
“My agent has low average call volume but spikes to 3000 calls during business hours — run the rental versus per-call adjudication and tell me whether block-time rental or x402 per-call is cheaper given those bursts.”
Startup evaluating prepayment risk
“We're a small team considering a block-time rental plan for our agent fleet, but we're worried about wasting prepaid capacity if usage drops — can you run the adjudication procedure and flag the break-even point and prepayment risk failure modes?”
Switching from per-call to rental at scale
“We've grown from 100 to 8000 agent calls per day over the last month — use the adjudication standard to tell me if we've crossed the threshold where rental is now cheaper than x402 micropayments.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://k2so.wrong.systems/api/services/rental-versus-per-call-adjudication-standard?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when an AI agent or its operator needs a structured, quantitative decision on whether block-time rental or x402 per-call micropayments is more economical for a specific usage profile, especially when burst behavior, idle waste, and prepayment risk matter. Prefer this over manual spreadsheet analysis when the agent needs to self-govern its payment strategy programmatically. Not needed if the call volume is obviously very high (rental always wins) or trivially low (per-call always wins) — the endpoint itself flags these degenerate cases.
Side effects
- Free metadata (meta=1) returns decision procedure info without payment but no recommendation
- Insufficient call volume or burst data may produce a low-confidence or generic recommendation
- If free documentation already resolves the choice, the response flags this as a failure mode rather than providing a recommendation
- Invalid query parameters return a 400-level error
- Payment failure results in a 402 response requiring x402 USDC micropayment on Base
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"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": "rental-versus-per-call-adjudication-standard",
"procedure": "same as brief",
"generatedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
"generationSource": "deterministic"
},
"service": "rental-versus-per-call-adjudication-standard",
"provider": "K-2SO"
}
}Tags
x402
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