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/118/balance` is gated behind an x402 challenge requiring payment in USDC on the Base network. The maximum amount required per call is 20,000 base units of USDC (6 decimals), which equals $0.02 per request. Payment is made via the "exact" scheme to a specified wallet address, with a timeout of 300 seconds.
The broader lowpaymentfee.com platform advertises a suite of x402-gated 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. However, the specific endpoint being listed here is an account balance resource under `/api/v1/accounts/118/balance`, which does not appear in the site's public API catalog and has only the generic description "Premium API Access."
Documentation is extremely sparse — the docs, API, pricing, and README pages all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no further content. There is no OpenAPI schema, no request/response examples, and no detailed documentation for this or any other endpoint on the platform. The endpoint is confirmed live (returns a proper 402 x402 challenge), but what the balance response actually contains is unknown.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Querying account balance information for account 118 via a single paid API call
- —Demonstrating x402 payment protocol integration on Base network
- —Agent-driven balance lookups without API key provisioning
Fit
Best for
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment protocol
- —Agents that can settle USDC payments on Base
- —Use cases requiring keyless, pay-per-call API access
Not for
- —Production workloads requiring documented response schemas and SLAs
- —Users who need free or subscription-based access to balance data
- —Anyone needing detailed API documentation before integration
Quick start
# The endpoint returns a 402 challenge. Supply an X-PAYMENT header with a valid x402 payment proof.
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/118/balance \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-token>"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is confirmed live via a valid 402 x402 challenge, but there is no documentation, no OpenAPI schema, no request/response examples, and the specific endpoint (/api/v1/accounts/118/balance) is not listed in the site's public catalog. The docs pages are empty. This is effectively a stub listing.
Warnings
- —No documentation available — all doc/API/pricing/README pages render only 'Connect wallet' with no content
- —This specific endpoint (/api/v1/accounts/118/balance) does not appear in the site's public API catalog
- —No request or response schema is available; the actual response format is unknown
- —The endpoint path references a hardcoded account ID (118), suggesting it may be account-specific rather than a general-purpose API
Citations
- —The x402 challenge requires a maximum of 20,000 base units of USDC (asset 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913) on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/118/balance
- —All listed endpoints are priced at $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and no minimumshttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —The platform advertises APIs across data & analytics, AI & ML, finance & Web3, and infrastructure categorieshttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —Docs, API, pricing, and README pages render only a 'Connect wallet' prompthttps://lowpaymentfee.com/docs