x402-gated account balance endpoint on Base, pay-per-call with USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com provides a pay-per-request "Premium API Access" resource at the path `/api/v1/accounts/11/balance`. It is part of a broader platform that offers dozens of x402-gated API endpoints spanning data analytics, AI/ML inference, finance/Web3 data, and utility services — all settled on the Base network using USDC.
The specific endpoint probed returns account balance information via HTTP POST. It uses the x402 payment protocol (version 1, "exact" scheme) and requires a maximum of 20,000 base units of USDC (0.02 USD) per request, paid to the address `0x1A2B13E97f5F837C8F9FA1F95a1484B7C70d85F3` on Base. The asset contract `0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913` is the canonical USDC contract on Base. No API keys or rate limits are advertised; access is gated purely by the x402 payment challenge.
Documentation is extremely sparse — the /docs, /pricing, /api, and /README pages all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no substantive content. There is no OpenAPI schema, no request/response examples, and no detailed description of what the balance endpoint actually returns. The platform's landing page lists many endpoints at $0.02 each but provides no further technical detail. Treat this as a functional but minimally documented service.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Querying account balance data with per-request USDC micropayments
- —Integrating pay-per-call balance lookups into agent workflows
- —Accessing financial data without API key registration
Fit
Best for
- —Agents or services that need keyless, pay-per-call account balance queries
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment protocol integrations
- —Use cases requiring low-friction API access without subscriptions
Not for
- —Production workloads requiring detailed API documentation and SLAs
- —High-volume batch queries where per-request pricing is inefficient
- —Users without a Base-network USDC wallet
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/11/balance
# Returns 402 with x402 payment challenge.
# Include X-PAYMENT header with a valid x402 payment proof to access the resource.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 schema, no request/response examples, and no description of what the balance endpoint returns. The specific endpoint path (/accounts/11/balance) is not listed on the landing page, adding uncertainty about its purpose.
Warnings
- —No documentation available — all doc/pricing/API pages render only 'Connect wallet'
- —No OpenAPI or JSON schema describing request parameters or response format
- —The specific endpoint /api/v1/accounts/11/balance is not listed among the platform's advertised APIs
- —Purpose and response structure of 'account balance' endpoint is unknown — could be a demo or placeholder
Citations
- —The endpoint returns a 402 x402 challenge with maxAmountRequired of 20000 base units of USDC on Basehttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/11/balance
- —The platform advertises $0.02 per request, no API keys, no rate limits, Base network settlementhttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —The USDC asset contract is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 on Basehttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/11/balance
- —Documentation pages (/docs, /pricing, /api, /README) contain only 'Connect wallet' with no substantive contenthttps://lowpaymentfee.com/docs