x402-gated employee data endpoint on Base, pay $0.02 per request in USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com provides access to an employee record (ID 182) behind an x402 paywall. The site lowpaymentfee.com hosts a broad collection of x402-enabled APIs spanning data & analytics, AI/ML inference, finance/Web3, and infrastructure utilities, all priced at $0.02 per request settled in USDC on the Base network.
The specific resource `/api/v1/employees/182` is not listed on the provider's landing page among the advertised API categories, so its exact response schema and data contents are unknown. The x402 challenge confirms it is live, accepts POST requests, and requires a payment of up to 20,000 base units of USDC (0x8335…2913 on Base, 6 decimals = $0.02). Payment is made via the x402 "exact" scheme to wallet 0x1A2B13E97f5F837C8F9FA1F95a1484B7C70d85F3 with a 300-second timeout.
Documentation is extremely thin — the docs, pricing, and API pages all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no further content. There is no OpenAPI spec, no example request/response, and no description of the employee data model. The endpoint appears to be a demonstration or test resource rather than a production data service. Use with caution and expect to discover the response format empirically.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Retrieving employee record data on a per-request payment basis
- —Testing x402 payment flows against a live endpoint
- —Demonstrating pay-per-call API patterns on Base network
Fit
Best for
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment protocol
- —Agents that need on-demand data access without API key provisioning
- —Low-volume, pay-as-you-go data retrieval
Not for
- —Bulk employee data exports or HR system integrations
- —Users who need detailed documentation or guaranteed SLAs
- —Applications requiring well-documented response schemas
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/182 \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402_payment_token>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live (402 challenge confirmed) and pricing is clear ($0.02 USDC on Base), but there is no OpenAPI spec, no documentation beyond a wallet-connect prompt, no example responses, and the specific /employees/182 resource is not even listed among the provider's advertised APIs. The data model is entirely unknown.
Warnings
- —The /api/v1/employees/182 path is not listed among the provider's advertised endpoints — it may be a test or undocumented resource.
- —No documentation, OpenAPI spec, or example responses are available; the response schema must be discovered empirically.
- —All documentation pages (docs, pricing, API, README) render only a 'Connect wallet' prompt with no substantive content.
- —Employee data may be synthetic/demo data — no provenance or accuracy guarantees are documented.
Citations
- —The endpoint returns a 402 challenge with maxAmountRequired of 20000 base units of USDC on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/182
- —All listed APIs are priced at $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —USDC asset contract on Base is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/182