x402-payable employee salary lookup endpoint on Base, paid per-request in USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com provides access to employee salary data via an x402 payment-gated API. The specific resource `/api/v1/employees/163/salary` returns salary information for employee ID 163 when called with a POST request and a valid x402 payment header. Payment is settled on the Base network using USDC (contract 0x8335…2913) at a cost of $0.02 per request (20,000 base units with 6 decimals).
The provider lowpaymentfee.com hosts a broader catalog of x402-enabled APIs spanning data analytics, AI/ML inference, finance, and utility services, all priced uniformly at $0.02 per request. The platform advertises no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access — payment is the only authentication mechanism. However, documentation beyond the landing page is essentially empty (all doc/pricing/API pages just show a "Connect wallet" prompt), so the exact request body schema and response format for this employee salary endpoint are unknown.
The endpoint is confirmed live: it returns a proper HTTP 402 challenge with x402 version 1 headers. The payment scheme is "exact" with a max timeout of 300 seconds. No OpenAPI spec or detailed documentation is available, making it difficult to know what fields the response contains or what POST body (if any) is expected.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Retrieving salary data for a specific employee by ID
- —Integrating payroll lookups into agent workflows without API key management
- —Programmatic salary verification via micropayment-gated access
Fit
Best for
- —Agents needing on-demand employee salary data with no signup
- —Developers prototyping x402 payment flows on Base
- —Scenarios where per-call pricing is preferred over subscriptions
Not for
- —Bulk payroll data exports (no batch endpoint documented)
- —Users who need detailed API documentation or OpenAPI specs before integrating
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/163/salary \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-token>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live and returns a valid x402 402 challenge, but there is no OpenAPI spec, no documentation, no request/response schema, and no examples. The employee salary endpoint is not listed on the provider's landing page (which only shows analytics, AI, finance, and utility APIs), raising questions about its purpose and data source. Effectively a stub listing.
Warnings
- —No OpenAPI spec or schema available for request or response bodies
- —All documentation pages (docs, pricing, API, README) return only a 'Connect wallet' prompt with no actual content
- —This specific employee salary endpoint is not listed among the provider's advertised APIs on the landing page
- —The nature and source of the 'employee salary' data is completely undocumented — unclear if this is real payroll data, mock/demo data, or something else
- —No information on data privacy, compliance, or authorization beyond payment
Citations
- —Endpoint returns HTTP 402 with x402 version 1 challenge, scheme exact, on Base network using USDChttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/163/salary
- —maxAmountRequired is 20000 base units of USDC (6 decimals) = $0.02https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/163/salary
- —Provider advertises $0.02/request, no API keys, no rate limits, instant access on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —Documentation pages show only 'Connect wallet' with no substantive contenthttps://lowpaymentfee.com/docs