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 170) via the x402 payment protocol. It is part of a broader platform offering numerous pay-per-request API endpoints across data analytics, AI/ML inference, finance, and utility categories — all priced at $0.02 per call and settled in USDC on the Base network.
The specific resource `/api/v1/employees/170` returns JSON (MIME type application/json) and accepts POST requests. Payment is handled inline via the x402 protocol: callers attach an X-PAYMENT header with a signed USDC payment of up to 20,000 base units (i.e., $0.02, since USDC uses 6 decimals). The payment is sent to address 0x1A2B…85F3 on Base. No API keys, rate limits, or upfront commitments are required — access is purely pay-per-call.
The broader lowpaymentfee.com platform advertises endpoints for metrics, reports, data export, insights, sentiment analysis, text summarization, classification, embeddings, price feeds, exchange rates, token quotes, gas estimates, geocoding, validation, conversion, and generation. However, the specific endpoint being listed here is scoped to employee data. Documentation on the site is extremely thin — the docs, pricing, and README pages all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no further content. There is no OpenAPI schema, no example request/response documentation, and no description of what fields the employee record contains.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Retrieving employee record data on demand with per-call USDC payment
- —Agent-driven data lookups that require no API key or subscription
- —Demonstrating x402 payment protocol integration for data endpoints
Fit
Best for
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment protocol
- —Agents needing keyless, pay-per-call access to structured data
- —Low-volume, on-demand employee data retrieval
Not for
- —High-volume bulk employee data exports (no batch endpoint documented)
- —Users without a Base-network USDC wallet
- —Anyone needing detailed API documentation or guaranteed SLAs
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/170 \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-signed-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). However, there is no OpenAPI schema, no example request/response, and the docs pages are empty stubs. The purpose of the /employees/170 endpoint is not explained anywhere on the site, making it essentially a stub listing.
Warnings
- —No documentation available — docs, pricing, and README pages all show only 'Connect wallet' with no content.
- —No OpenAPI or schema describing the employee data fields or accepted request body.
- —The /api/v1/employees/170 path is not listed among the site's advertised endpoints; its purpose and data contents are unknown.
- —No example responses available; response structure must be discovered by calling the endpoint.
Citations
- —The endpoint returns a 402 challenge requesting up to 20,000 base units of USDC on Base network.https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/170
- —The platform prices all endpoints at $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on the Base network.https://lowpaymentfee.com
- —USDC asset address is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 on Base.https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/170