Pay-per-call employee salary lookup API on Base via x402, settled in USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com provides access to employee salary data via a POST request to `/api/v1/employees/6/salary`. It is part of a broader platform (lowpaymentfee.com) that offers dozens of x402-payable API endpoints spanning data analytics, AI/ML inference, finance, and utility services. All endpoints on the platform use the x402 protocol for payment, settling in USDC on the Base network.
The specific endpoint probed returns salary information for employee ID 6. The x402 challenge indicates a maximum cost of 20,000 base units of USDC (0.02 USD per request), consistent with the platform's uniform $0.02/request pricing. Payment is made via the x402 "exact" scheme to the specified wallet address. No API keys or rate limits are advertised — access is granted purely through per-call micropayment.
Documentation on the site 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 description of what fields the salary endpoint returns or what input it expects beyond being a POST request. The endpoint is confirmed live (402 challenge returned), but the lack of documentation makes it difficult to know what payload to send or what response to expect.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Retrieving salary information for a specific employee by ID
- —Integrating pay-per-call salary data into HR or payroll workflows
- —Agent-driven lookups of compensation data without API key management
Fit
Best for
- —Developers needing on-demand employee salary data without subscription commitments
- —AI agents that can settle x402 micropayments on Base
- —Prototyping pay-per-use data access patterns
Not for
- —Bulk payroll data exports (no batch endpoint documented)
- —Users who need detailed API documentation or OpenAPI specs before integrating
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/6/salary \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-header>"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is confirmed live via a valid 402 challenge, and pricing is clear ($0.02 USDC on Base). However, there is no OpenAPI schema, no request/response examples, and all documentation pages return only a wallet-connect prompt. The endpoint's purpose (employee salary data) is only inferable from the URL path. This is effectively a stub listing.
Warnings
- —No OpenAPI or schema documentation available for this endpoint
- —All doc/pricing/README pages render only 'Connect wallet' with no content
- —Request body format and response structure are completely undocumented
- —The endpoint path suggests sample/demo data (employee ID 6) — unclear if this is production data or a test fixture
Citations
- —The endpoint returns a 402 challenge with maxAmountRequired of 20000 base units of USDC on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/6/salary
- —Platform pricing is $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and no minimumshttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —USDC asset contract on Base: 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/6/salary