x402-gated employee data endpoint on Base, pay $0.02 per request in USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com provides access to an employee record (ID 149) via the x402 payment protocol. It is part of a broader platform offering dozens of pay-per-call API endpoints across data analytics, AI/ML inference, finance/Web3, and infrastructure utilities — all gated behind x402 micropayments on the Base network.
The specific resource `/api/v1/employees/149` returns JSON data when a valid x402 payment header is supplied. The x402 challenge indicates a maximum cost of 20,000 base units of USDC (0x8335…2913 on Base), which equals $0.02 per request. Payment is settled on-chain to the provider's wallet. No API keys, rate limits, or subscriptions are required — each call is independently paid.
The endpoint's purpose appears to be serving structured employee data, though the exact response schema is not documented in the crawled material. The broader lowpaymentfee.com platform advertises a uniform $0.02/request pricing model across all its endpoints. Documentation pages (/docs, /pricing, /README) returned only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no substantive content, so details about request parameters, response fields, and data sources remain unknown.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Retrieving structured employee record data on demand with per-call payment
- —Integrating pay-per-use data lookups into agent workflows without managing API keys
- —Demonstrating x402 micropayment protocol usage on Base network
Fit
Best for
- —Agents or applications needing on-demand employee data without subscription overhead
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment-gated APIs
- —Low-volume, pay-as-you-go data retrieval use cases
Not for
- —High-volume bulk employee data exports (no documented batch endpoint)
- —Use cases requiring detailed schema documentation or SLA guarantees
- —Applications that cannot settle USDC payments on Base
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/149 \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-header>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live (402 challenge captured) and pricing is clear ($0.02 USDC on Base), but there is no documentation of request parameters, response schema, or data source. The /docs, /pricing, and /README pages are empty stubs. The specific purpose of an 'employees/149' endpoint on a generic API platform is unclear.
Warnings
- —No response schema or example response available — actual data returned is unknown
- —Documentation pages (/docs, /pricing, /README) contain no content beyond a wallet-connect prompt
- —The nature and source of 'employee' data is undocumented — unclear if this is sample/demo data or a real dataset
- —No OpenAPI spec or machine-readable schema provided
Citations
- —The x402 challenge returns maxAmountRequired of 20000 base units of USDC on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/149
- —Platform advertises $0.02/request uniform pricing with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —USDC contract on Base is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/149