x402-gated employee data endpoint on Base, pay-per-request with USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com serves employee data behind an x402 payment wall. The specific resource `/api/v1/employees/152` returns JSON data for employee record #152 when a valid X-PAYMENT header is provided. 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 broader lowpaymentfee.com platform advertises a catalog of pay-per-call 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 are listed at $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and no commitments required — just an x402-compatible payment header.
The specific `/api/v1/employees/152` endpoint is not listed on the provider's landing page among the advertised API categories. It appears to be an additional or unlisted resource. Documentation pages (/docs, /pricing, /README) returned only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no substantive content, so the exact schema of the employee response and the full set of input parameters are unknown.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Retrieving employee records on-demand with per-call USDC payment
- —Integrating employee data into agent workflows without API key management
- —Programmatic access to structured employee information via x402 protocol
Fit
Best for
- —Agents or services that need on-demand employee data with crypto micropayments
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment protocol on Base
- —Use cases requiring keyless, pay-as-you-go API access
Not for
- —Bulk employee data exports requiring thousands of records at low latency
- —Users without USDC on the Base network
- —Applications needing well-documented, schema-validated endpoints
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/152 \
-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, no OpenAPI schema, no example request/response, and the employee endpoint is not even listed on the provider's own landing page. Docs pages are empty stubs.
Warnings
- —The /api/v1/employees/152 endpoint is not listed among the provider's advertised APIs — it may be a test or unlisted resource.
- —All documentation pages (/docs, /pricing, /README) returned only 'Connect wallet' with no actual content.
- —No response schema or example data is available; the structure of the employee record is unknown.
- —No OpenAPI spec or machine-readable schema was found.
Citations
- —The x402 challenge returns maxAmountRequired of 20000 in USDC (6 decimals) on Base, equaling $0.02 per request.https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/152
- —The platform advertises $0.02/request pricing with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on Base network.https://lowpaymentfee.com
- —USDC asset contract is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 on Base.https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/152
- —Documentation pages (/docs, /pricing, /README) returned only 'Connect wallet' with no substantive content.https://lowpaymentfee.com/docs