Pay-per-call stock price lookup for USB via x402 on Base, settled in USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com returns stock price data for the ticker "USB" (U.S. Bancorp). It is part of a broader suite of pay-per-request APIs offered by lowpaymentfee.com, which spans data analytics, AI/ML inference, finance, crypto, and utility services. All endpoints use the x402 payment protocol, requiring a one-time USDC micropayment on the Base network per request — no API keys, no subscriptions, no rate limits.
The specific endpoint `/api/v1/stocks/USB/price` accepts POST requests and returns JSON. The x402 challenge advertises a maximum cost of 20,000 base units of USDC (0x8335…2913 on Base), which equals $0.02 per call (USDC uses 6 decimals). The payment is sent to address 0x1A2B13E97f5F837C8F9FA1F95a1484B7C70d85F3 with a 300-second timeout window.
Documentation beyond the landing page is extremely sparse — the /docs, /api, /pricing, and /README pages all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no additional technical detail. There is no OpenAPI spec, no example request/response payloads, and no description of the response schema. The endpoint is confirmed live (returns a valid 402 challenge), but the actual data source, update frequency, and response format for stock prices are unknown.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Fetching the current price of U.S. Bancorp (USB) stock programmatically
- —Agent-driven portfolio monitoring that pays per data request
- —Integrating real-time equity pricing into trading bots without API key management
Fit
Best for
- —AI agents needing on-demand stock price data with no signup
- —Developers who want keyless, pay-as-you-go financial data
- —Crypto-native workflows that can settle USDC on Base
Not for
- —Bulk historical stock data retrieval (single-ticker, single-call design)
- —Users who cannot transact in USDC on the Base network
- —Applications requiring documented response schemas or SLA guarantees
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/stocks/USB/price \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402_payment_token>"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live and returns a valid x402 challenge with clear pricing, but there is no OpenAPI spec, no documented request/response schema, no example payloads, and all documentation pages are empty beyond a wallet-connect prompt. The actual data source and response format are entirely unknown.
Warnings
- —No OpenAPI or schema documentation available — response format is unknown
- —All doc pages (/docs, /api, /pricing, /README) render only 'Connect wallet' with no content
- —The stock ticker 'USB' in the URL path is hardcoded; it is unclear whether other tickers are supported at similar paths
- —Data source, freshness, and accuracy of stock prices are undocumented
Citations
- —The endpoint returns a 402 challenge with maxAmountRequired of 20000 base units of USDC on Basehttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/stocks/USB/price
- —The site advertises $0.02 per request across all APIs with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —USDC contract on Base is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/stocks/USB/price