Pay-per-call employee salary data endpoint on Base via x402 (USDC).
What it does
This x402-enabled endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com returns employee salary data for a specific employee (ID 199) via a POST request. It is part of a broader suite of pay-per-request APIs offered by lowpaymentfee.com, which spans data analytics, AI/ML inference, finance, and utility categories. All endpoints on the platform use the x402 payment protocol, settling in USDC on the Base network.
The specific endpoint `/api/v1/employees/199/salary` costs $0.02 per request (20,000 base units of USDC with 6 decimals). Payment is handled via the x402 `X-PAYMENT` header with the "exact" scheme. The platform advertises no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access — you simply attach a valid x402 payment header to each call.
Documentation is extremely sparse. The crawled docs, API, pricing, and README pages all returned only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no substantive content. There is no OpenAPI schema, no request/response examples, and no description of what fields the salary endpoint returns or what input it expects beyond the HTTP POST method. The endpoint is confirmed live (returns a proper 402 challenge), but the actual data payload and its structure are unknown.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Retrieving salary information for a specific employee on demand
- —Integrating pay-per-call salary data into HR or payroll workflows
- —Agent-driven lookups of compensation data without API key management
Fit
Best for
- —Agents needing on-demand salary data with no subscription or API key
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment-gated APIs
- —Low-volume, pay-as-you-go data retrieval
Not for
- —Bulk employee data exports (single-employee endpoint, no batch support evident)
- —Users who need detailed API documentation or response schema guarantees
- —Production systems requiring SLA or uptime guarantees (no docs or terms available)
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/199/salary \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-token>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live and returns a valid x402 402 challenge, confirming it exists and accepts payments. However, there is no OpenAPI schema, no documentation, no request/response examples, and no explanation of what data is returned. The crawled pages beyond the landing page were all empty ("Connect wallet" only). This is effectively a stub listing.
Warnings
- —No API documentation available — all doc pages return only a wallet connect prompt
- —No request body schema or response schema provided; data structure is entirely unknown
- —The endpoint path suggests demo/sample data (employee ID 199) rather than a production data source
- —No terms of service, privacy policy, or SLA information found
Citations
- —The endpoint returns HTTP 402 with an x402 challenge requiring USDC payment on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/199/salary
- —The platform advertises $0.02 per request pricing with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant accesshttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —The USDC asset contract on Base is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/199/salary
- —maxAmountRequired is 20000 base units (= $0.02 USDC with 6 decimals)https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/199/salary