Real-time stock price for Morgan Stanley (MS) via x402 micropayment on Base, $0.02 per request.
What it does
This endpoint returns the current stock price for Morgan Stanley (ticker: MS) as a pay-per-call API secured by the x402 protocol. It is part of a broader suite of APIs hosted at lowpaymentfee.com covering data analytics, AI/ML inference, finance, crypto, and utility services — all priced at $0.02 per request.
Payment is settled on the Base network using USDC (contract 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913). The x402 challenge advertises a maxAmountRequired of 20,000 base units, which at 6 decimals equals $0.02. No API keys, rate limits, or upfront commitments are required; callers simply attach an X-PAYMENT header with a valid x402 payment proof to each POST request.
The endpoint was confirmed live, returning a 402 challenge as expected for unauthenticated requests. Documentation beyond the landing page is sparse — the /docs, /pricing, and /README pages all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no additional technical detail. No OpenAPI schema or response examples are published, so the exact response shape must be inferred (likely a JSON object containing the stock price). The provider's landing page lists the endpoint under "Finance & Web3 — Market data and financial calculations."
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Fetching the latest Morgan Stanley (MS) stock price for portfolio dashboards
- —Autonomous trading agents that need real-time equity prices without API key management
- —Embedding live stock prices into AI agent workflows with per-call micropayments
- —Quick spot-checks of MS share price from scripts or bots
Fit
Best for
- —AI agents needing keyless, pay-per-call stock price data
- —Developers prototyping finance apps who want instant access without signup
- —x402-compatible wallets and agents on the Base network
Not for
- —Bulk historical stock data downloads (single-ticker, single-price endpoint)
- —Users who need sub-second, high-frequency trading data with SLA guarantees
- —Non-crypto users who cannot settle payments in USDC on Base
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/stocks/MS/price \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402_payment_proof>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Example
Response
{
"price": 112.45,
"ticker": "MS",
"currency": "USD",
"timestamp": "2025-01-15T14:30:00Z"
}Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live and returns a valid x402 402 challenge with clear pricing ($0.02 USDC on Base). However, there is no OpenAPI schema, no documented response format, no example responses, and all documentation pages beyond the landing page are empty wallet-connect stubs. The response example above is entirely inferred.
Warnings
- —No OpenAPI or response schema published — response format is unknown and the example_response_json is fabricated as a plausible guess.
- —Documentation pages (/docs, /pricing, /README) contain no useful content, only a 'Connect wallet' prompt.
- —No information on data source, update frequency, or accuracy of the stock price data.
- —Single-ticker endpoint; unclear if other tickers are available at similar paths.
Citations
- —The endpoint returns a 402 x402 challenge with maxAmountRequired of 20000 base units of USDC on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/stocks/MS/price
- —USDC asset contract is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/stocks/MS/price
- —All APIs priced at $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —The endpoint is listed under Finance & Web3 category on the provider's landing pagehttps://lowpaymentfee.com