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/41/balance` is gated behind a per-request USDC payment on the Base network. The x402 challenge indicates a maximum cost of 20,000 base units of USDC (0.02 USD per request), consistent with the site-wide $0.02/request pricing advertised across all endpoints.
The provider lowpaymentfee.com hosts a broader suite of APIs spanning data & analytics, AI/ML inference (sentiment analysis, summarization, classification, embeddings), finance & Web3 (price feeds, exchange rates, token quotes, gas estimates), and infrastructure utilities (geocoding, validation, conversion, generation). All endpoints share the same $0.02 per-request pricing model with no API keys, no rate limits, and no minimum commitments. Payment is settled in USDC on the Base L2 network via the x402 exact-payment scheme.
The specific endpoint probed here (`/api/v1/accounts/41/balance`) is described only as "Premium API Access" with no further documentation on request parameters or response format. The docs, pricing, API, and README pages on the site all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no additional content, so the actual behavior and output schema of this endpoint remain unclear.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Querying account balance information via a single paid API call
- —Integrating pay-per-request balance lookups into agent workflows
- —Demonstrating x402 payment protocol integration on Base
Fit
Best for
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment-gated APIs
- —Agents needing on-demand account balance data without API key management
- —Low-volume, pay-as-you-go API consumption
Not for
- —High-volume balance queries where per-request fees add up
- —Use cases requiring detailed API documentation or guaranteed SLAs
- —Users who need non-crypto payment options
Quick start
# 1. Send a POST to get the 402 challenge
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/41/balance
# Response: 402 with x402 payment challenge
# 2. Construct X-PAYMENT header with USDC payment proof on Base
# 3. Resend request with the header to receive the balance dataEndpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live (returns a valid 402 x402 challenge) and pricing is clear ($0.02 USDC on Base), but there is no documentation on request parameters, response schema, or what 'account balance' actually returns. The docs pages are empty beyond a wallet connect prompt, making this effectively a stub listing.
Warnings
- —No documentation available — docs, pricing, API, and README pages all show only 'Connect wallet'
- —No request or response schema provided; actual endpoint behavior is unknown
- —The specific endpoint path (/api/v1/accounts/41/balance) with a hardcoded account ID '41' is unusual and unexplained
- —Cannot verify what data this endpoint actually returns without making a paid request
Citations
- —The x402 challenge requires a maximum of 20,000 base units of USDC (0.02 USD) per request on the Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/41/balance
- —The site advertises $0.02/request pricing across all endpoints with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant accesshttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —The USDC asset contract on Base is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/41/balance
- —Docs, pricing, API, and README pages render only a 'Connect wallet' prompthttps://lowpaymentfee.com/docs