Stock market quote for CVS via x402 micropayment on Base, $0.02 per request.
What it does
This endpoint provides a stock market quote for CVS (CVS Health Corporation) through the lowpaymentfee.com platform. It is part of a broader suite of pay-per-call APIs covering finance, AI/ML, data analytics, and utility services, all settled via the x402 protocol on the Base network using USDC.
The endpoint accepts POST requests and returns JSON. Payment is handled inline via the X-PAYMENT header — no API keys, accounts, or rate limits are required. Each call costs $0.02 (20,000 base units of USDC with 6 decimals) and settles on-chain to the provider's wallet. The x402 challenge was confirmed live, returning a proper 402 with payment parameters.
The specific data fields returned in the quote response are not documented; the provider's docs pages, pricing page, and README all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no further detail. Because of this, the exact schema of the response (e.g., whether it includes bid/ask, volume, last price, etc.) cannot be confirmed from available material. The broader lowpaymentfee.com site lists similar finance endpoints for price feeds, exchange rates, token quotes, and gas estimates, all at the same $0.02 price point.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Fetching a real-time or recent stock quote for CVS Health Corporation
- —Building trading bots or dashboards that need on-demand equity data without API key management
- —Agent-driven portfolio monitoring that pays per call with USDC on Base
Fit
Best for
- —Developers wanting keyless, pay-per-call stock quotes
- —AI agents that can settle x402 payments autonomously
- —Low-volume or sporadic equity data needs where subscriptions are overkill
Not for
- —High-frequency trading requiring sub-millisecond latency and bulk data
- —Users who need historical OHLCV time-series data (not evidenced here)
- —Anyone without a Base-network USDC wallet or x402-compatible client
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/market/quote/CVS \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-token>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Endpoint
Quality
The x402 challenge is live and pricing is clear ($0.02/request in USDC on Base). However, there is no documented request or response schema, no OpenAPI spec, and the docs/pricing/README pages all render only a wallet-connect prompt. The actual content of the quote response is unknown, making this effectively a stub listing.
Warnings
- —No response schema documented — the fields returned in the stock quote are unknown.
- —Docs, pricing, and README pages all render only 'Connect wallet' with no usable documentation.
- —No OpenAPI or machine-readable schema available.
- —It is unclear whether this returns real-time, delayed, or cached stock data.
Citations
- —The endpoint returns a 402 x402 challenge with maxAmountRequired of 20000 base units of USDC on Base network.https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/market/quote/CVS
- —All APIs on lowpaymentfee.com cost $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on the Base network.https://lowpaymentfee.com
- —The asset address 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 is USDC on Base (named 'USD Coin' in the challenge).https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/market/quote/CVS