x402-gated employee salary endpoint on Base, pay $0.02 per request in USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com provides access to employee salary data via the x402 payment protocol. The specific resource `/api/v1/employees/195/salary` returns salary information for employee ID 195 in JSON format. Payment is settled on the Base network using USDC (contract 0x8335…2913) at $0.02 per request (20,000 base units with 6 decimals).
The provider lowpaymentfee.com hosts a broad catalog of x402-gated APIs spanning data & analytics, AI/ML inference, finance/Web3, and infrastructure utilities — all priced uniformly at $0.02 per call. The platform advertises no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access; callers simply attach an x402 payment header to each request. The endpoint accepts POST requests and is discoverable via the x402 challenge.
Documentation is extremely sparse — the docs, pricing, API, and README pages all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no further technical detail. There is no OpenAPI spec, no request/response schema, and no example payloads available. The exact structure of the salary response and any required POST body fields are unknown. The endpoint is confirmed live (returns 402 with a valid x402 challenge).
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Retrieving salary information for a specific employee programmatically
- —Integrating employee compensation data into payroll or HR dashboards
- —Agent-driven lookups of salary records with micropayment settlement
Fit
Best for
- —Developers needing on-demand employee salary data without API key management
- —AI agents that can settle x402 micropayments on Base
- —Quick one-off salary lookups at low per-request cost
Not for
- —Bulk payroll data exports (no batch endpoint documented)
- —Users without a Base-compatible USDC wallet
- —Applications requiring detailed API documentation or guaranteed SLAs
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/195/salary \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-header>"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live and returns a valid x402 challenge, but there is no OpenAPI spec, no request/response schema, no documentation beyond a wallet-connect prompt, and the purpose of this specific employee-salary endpoint is unclear in the context of a generic API marketplace. Effectively a stub listing.
Warnings
- —No OpenAPI or schema documentation available — request body and response format are unknown.
- —Docs, pricing, API, and README pages all render only 'Connect wallet' with no technical content.
- —The employee salary endpoint seems like a demo/placeholder resource; actual data quality and coverage are unverified.
- —No information on data source, accuracy, or freshness of salary data.
Citations
- —Endpoint returns 402 with x402 challenge advertising USDC on Base at maxAmountRequired 20000https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/195/salary
- —Platform advertises $0.02 per request, no API keys, no rate limits, instant access on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —USDC asset contract is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 on Basehttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/195/salary