x402-gated account balance endpoint on Base, pay-per-call with USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com provides an account balance lookup via the x402 payment protocol. The specific resource `/api/v1/accounts/19/balance` is described as "Premium API Access" and accepts POST requests gated by an x402 payment challenge. Payment is settled in USDC on the Base network at $0.02 per request (maxAmountRequired of 20,000 base units with USDC's 6 decimals = $0.02).
lowpaymentfee.com hosts a broader suite of pay-per-call APIs spanning data & analytics (metrics, reports, data export, insights), AI & machine learning (sentiment analysis, text 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 minimum commitments. Payments use the x402 "exact" scheme on the Base L2 network.
Documentation is extremely sparse — the docs, API, pricing, and README pages all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no further technical detail. There is no OpenAPI spec, no request/response schema documentation, and no usage examples available from the crawled material. The endpoint is confirmed live (returns a proper 402 challenge), but the actual data returned after payment is unknown.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Querying account balance data behind a per-call USDC paywall
- —Programmatic access to financial account information without API key management
- —Agent-driven balance lookups settled on Base L2
Fit
Best for
- —Developers wanting keyless, pay-per-call API access
- —AI agents that can settle x402 payments in USDC on Base
- —Users who prefer no-commitment, no-rate-limit API consumption
Not for
- —Users needing detailed API documentation or response schemas before purchasing
- —High-volume batch queries where per-call pricing may add up
- —Anyone without a Base-compatible USDC wallet
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/19/balance \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-token>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live and returns a valid x402 challenge, but documentation is essentially nonexistent — all doc pages show only 'Connect wallet'. There is no OpenAPI spec, no request/response schema, and no examples. The purpose of this specific endpoint (account 19 balance) is unclear beyond the generic 'Premium API Access' label.
Warnings
- —No API documentation available; docs/pricing/README pages all render only 'Connect wallet'
- —No OpenAPI or output schema provided — response format after payment is unknown
- —The specific meaning of 'accounts/19/balance' is undocumented; it is unclear what account or balance is being queried
- —No request body schema documented for the POST method
Citations
- —The endpoint returns a 402 challenge with maxAmountRequired of 20000 in USDC on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/19/balance
- —All endpoints are priced at $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant accesshttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —The USDC asset contract on Base is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/19/balance
- —The site lists APIs across data & analytics, AI & ML, finance & Web3, and infrastructure categorieshttps://lowpaymentfee.com