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 114) behind an x402 payment wall. The x402 challenge confirms the endpoint is live and accepts USDC payments on the Base network at $0.02 per request (20,000 base units of USDC with 6 decimals). The payment is settled on-chain to the specified wallet address, with no API keys, rate limits, or subscriptions required.
The broader lowpaymentfee.com platform advertises a range of pay-per-call APIs spanning data analytics, AI/ML inference (sentiment analysis, summarization, classification, embeddings), finance/Web3 data (price feeds, exchange rates, token quotes, gas estimates), and infrastructure utilities (geocoding, validation, conversion, generation) — all at $0.02 per request via x402 on Base. However, the specific endpoint being listed here (`/api/v1/employees/114`) is not documented on the site's landing page among the advertised API categories. It appears to be an employee data resource, but no schema, field definitions, or example responses are available in the crawled material.
Without documentation or an output schema describing the response payload, the exact fields returned for this employee record are unknown. The endpoint accepts POST requests and returns application/json. The platform's general value proposition is frictionless, wallet-based micropayments with no signup friction, but the lack of docs for this specific resource is a notable gap.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Retrieving employee record data for ID 114 via a single paid API call
- —Demonstrating x402 micropayment integration on Base network
- —Programmatic access to employee information without API key management
Fit
Best for
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment protocol
- —Agents that need on-demand employee data without subscription overhead
- —Micropayment-based data access on Base L2
Not for
- —Bulk employee data retrieval (single-record endpoint, no batch support documented)
- —Users who need detailed API documentation or guaranteed SLAs
- —Free or unauthenticated data access
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/114 \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402_payment_token>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Endpoint
Quality
The x402 challenge is live and pricing is clear ($0.02 USDC on Base), but this specific endpoint (/api/v1/employees/114) is not documented anywhere in the crawled material. No output schema, no example responses, and no description of what employee fields are returned. The docs, pricing, and README pages all rendered only a 'Connect wallet' prompt with no useful content.
Warnings
- —This specific endpoint (/api/v1/employees/114) is not listed among the advertised APIs on the provider's landing page — its purpose and response schema are unknown.
- —Documentation pages (/docs, /pricing, /README, /api) returned no meaningful content beyond a wallet-connect prompt.
- —No output schema or example response is available; the data returned is entirely opaque.
- —The endpoint path suggests personal/employee data — consider privacy and regulatory implications (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) before use.
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/114
- —The platform advertises $0.02/request pricing with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on Base network.https://lowpaymentfee.com
- —The USDC asset contract on Base is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913.https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/114