x402-gated employee salary endpoint on Base, pay-per-request with USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com provides access to employee salary data behind an x402 payment wall. The specific resource `/api/v1/employees/4/salary` returns salary information for employee ID 4 in JSON format. Payment is settled on the Base network using USDC (contract 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913) via the x402 "exact" scheme.
The endpoint charges a maximum of 20,000 base units of USDC per request. Since USDC uses 6 decimals, this translates to $0.02 per call, consistent with the provider's site-wide pricing of $0.02/request. The provider advertises no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access. Payment timeout is 300 seconds.
lowpaymentfee.com hosts a broader catalog of x402-gated APIs spanning data analytics, AI/ML inference, finance, and utility services, all at the same $0.02/request price point. However, this specific endpoint is focused on employee salary data. Documentation beyond the landing page 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 schema, no request/response examples, and no description of what fields the salary response contains.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Retrieving salary information for a specific employee via a pay-per-call model
- —Integrating employee compensation data into payroll or HR dashboards
- —Agent-driven lookups of salary records without API key management
Fit
Best for
- —Agents needing on-demand employee salary data without subscription commitments
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment-gated APIs on Base
- —Low-volume, pay-as-you-go salary data retrieval
Not for
- —Bulk payroll data exports requiring thousands of records at once
- —Users who need detailed API documentation and response schemas before integrating
- —Anyone without a Base-compatible USDC wallet
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/4/salary \
-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. However, there is no OpenAPI schema, no request/response examples, no documentation beyond a landing page, and the purpose of the endpoint (employee salary data) is vaguely described. The docs, API, pricing, and README pages are all empty beyond a wallet connect prompt.
Warnings
- —No OpenAPI or JSON schema available for request or response bodies
- —Documentation pages (/docs, /api, /pricing, /README) are effectively empty
- —The nature of the 'employee salary' data is unclear — it may be demo/mock data
- —No information on authentication, data source, or data freshness
Citations
- —The endpoint returns a 402 challenge with maxAmountRequired of 20000 base units of USDC on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/4/salary
- —Site-wide pricing is $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant accesshttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —USDC asset contract is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/4/salary