x402-gated account balance endpoint on Base, pay-per-call with USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com provides an account balance lookup via the x402 payment protocol. The specific resource `/api/v1/accounts/133/balance` is gated behind a per-request USDC payment on the Base network. The x402 challenge indicates a maximum cost of 20,000 base units of USDC (0.02 USD per request), consistent with the provider's advertised flat $0.02/request pricing across all their API endpoints.
The provider, lowpaymentfee.com, hosts a broader suite of x402-gated APIs spanning data & analytics, AI/ML inference (sentiment analysis, summarization, classification, embeddings), finance & Web3 (price feeds, exchange rates, token quotes, gas estimates), and infrastructure utilities (geocoding, validation, conversion, generation). All endpoints share the same $0.02/request pricing model with no API keys, no rate limits, and no minimum commitments — payment is handled entirely via the x402 protocol using USDC on Base.
This particular endpoint appears to return account balance information in JSON format. However, documentation is extremely sparse — the docs, pricing, and API pages all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no further technical detail. There is no OpenAPI schema, no request/response examples, and no description of what parameters the endpoint accepts or what fields the response contains. The endpoint is confirmed live (returns a proper 402 challenge), but the lack of documentation makes integration speculative.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Querying account balance information via a single paid API call
- —Integrating pay-per-request balance lookups into agent workflows
- —Demonstrating x402 protocol usage for micropayment-gated endpoints
Fit
Best for
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment protocol integration
- —Agents needing on-demand account balance data without API key management
- —Low-volume, pay-as-you-go balance queries
Not for
- —High-volume balance monitoring requiring bulk or subscription pricing
- —Use cases requiring detailed API documentation and guaranteed SLAs
- —Production systems needing well-documented request/response schemas
Quick start
# The endpoint requires an x402 payment header (USDC on Base).
# 1. POST to the endpoint without payment to receive the 402 challenge:
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/133/balance
# 2. Use an x402-compatible client to fulfill the payment challenge
# and re-submit with the X-PAYMENT header.Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is confirmed live with a valid x402 402 challenge and consistent pricing. However, there is no OpenAPI schema, no request/response examples, and all documentation pages render only a wallet-connect prompt. The purpose of this specific endpoint (account 133 balance) is unclear and undocumented, making this effectively a stub listing.
Warnings
- —No API documentation available — docs, pricing, and API pages all show only 'Connect wallet'
- —No OpenAPI or request/response schema provided
- —The specific endpoint path references a hardcoded account ID (133); unclear if this is parameterizable
- —Purpose and response format of the balance endpoint are entirely undocumented
Citations
- —The x402 challenge requires a maximum of 20,000 base units of USDC (asset 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913) on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/133/balance
- —The provider advertises $0.02/request flat pricing with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —The provider offers additional API categories including Data & Analytics, AI & Machine Learning, Finance & Web3, and Infrastructurehttps://lowpaymentfee.com