x402-gated employee data endpoint on Base, pay-per-request with USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com provides access to an employee record (ID 145) behind an x402 payment wall. The endpoint accepts POST requests and returns JSON. 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). No API keys or rate limits are required — callers simply attach an X-PAYMENT header with a valid x402 payment proof.
The broader lowpaymentfee.com platform advertises a wide catalog of x402-gated APIs spanning data & analytics, AI/ML inference (sentiment, summarization, classification, embeddings), finance/Web3 (price feeds, exchange rates, token quotes, gas estimates), and infrastructure utilities (geocoding, validation, conversion, generation), all priced at $0.02 per request. However, the specific endpoint being listed here (/api/v1/employees/145) is not documented on the site's landing page and its response schema is unknown. It is described only as "Premium API Access" in the x402 challenge. The endpoint is live and returning a proper 402 challenge.
Documentation is extremely thin — the /docs, /pricing, /api, and /README pages all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no additional technical content. There is no OpenAPI spec, no example request/response, and no description of what fields the employee record contains. Callers should expect a JSON response but will need to discover the schema empirically.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Retrieving employee record data for ID 145 via a single paid API call
- —Demonstrating x402 payment protocol integration with a live endpoint
- —Agent-driven data retrieval with per-request micropayments
Fit
Best for
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment protocol
- —Agents that need to fetch employee data without API key provisioning
- —Low-volume, pay-as-you-go data access on Base
Not for
- —Bulk employee data retrieval (no batch endpoint documented)
- —Users who need detailed API documentation or guaranteed SLAs
- —Anyone needing employee records beyond ID 145 (no other IDs confirmed)
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/145 \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-proof>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live and returns a valid x402 402 challenge, confirming it works. However, there is no OpenAPI spec, no documented request/response schema, no examples, and the docs pages are empty. The specific employee endpoint is not listed on the site's own catalog. This is effectively a stub listing with confirmed liveness but almost no usable documentation.
Warnings
- —No OpenAPI or schema documentation available for this endpoint
- —The /api/v1/employees/145 path is not listed in the site's own API catalog
- —All documentation pages (/docs, /pricing, /api, /README) render only 'Connect wallet' with no content
- —Response schema is completely unknown — callers must discover fields empirically
- —Only employee ID 145 is referenced; unclear if other IDs are accessible
Citations
- —Endpoint returns HTTP 402 with x402 challenge on POST, confirming it is livehttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/145
- —Payment is 20,000 base units of USDC (6 decimals = $0.02) on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/145
- —Site advertises $0.02/request pricing with no API keys, no rate limits, instant access on Basehttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —Documentation pages render only 'Connect wallet' with no technical contenthttps://lowpaymentfee.com/docs