Retrieve employee salary data via x402 micropayment on Base network for $0.02 per request.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com returns salary information for a specific employee (ID 171) behind an x402 paywall. It accepts POST requests and settles payments in USDC on the Base network. The x402 challenge advertises a maxAmountRequired of 20,000 base units of USDC (6 decimals), which equals $0.02 per call.
The provider lowpaymentfee.com hosts a broad catalog of pay-per-request APIs spanning data analytics, AI/ML inference, finance, and utility services — all priced at $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and no commitments. This particular endpoint sits under what appears to be an employee/HR data path. However, the crawled documentation pages (docs, pricing, README) returned only a wallet-connect prompt with no additional detail, so the exact schema of the salary response body is unknown.
Because there is no OpenAPI spec, no request/response examples, and no documentation beyond the landing page listing, the actual data returned by this endpoint is unclear. It could be sample/demo data or a real HR data service. Users should verify the response format by making a paid test call.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Retrieving salary information for employee records
- —Integrating employee compensation data into payroll dashboards
- —Agent-driven lookups of salary data without API key management
Fit
Best for
- —Developers needing on-demand salary data without subscription commitments
- —AI agents that can settle x402 USDC payments autonomously
- —Prototyping pay-per-request data access patterns on Base
Not for
- —Bulk payroll data exports requiring thousands of records at once
- —Users who need detailed API documentation and response schemas before integrating
- —Production HR systems requiring guaranteed SLAs and compliance certifications
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/171/salary \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-token>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live (402 challenge captured) and pricing is clear ($0.02 USDC on Base), but there is no OpenAPI spec, no request/response schema, no documentation beyond a landing page, and the purpose of the specific employee/salary path is unexplained. Effectively a stub listing.
Warnings
- —No OpenAPI or schema documentation available — response format is unknown
- —Documentation pages (/docs, /pricing, /README) returned only a wallet-connect prompt with no content
- —The endpoint path references a specific employee ID (171); unclear if this is demo data or a real service
- —No information on data provenance, accuracy, or compliance for salary/HR data
Citations
- —The x402 challenge advertises maxAmountRequired of 20000 base units of USDC on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/171/salary
- —All APIs on lowpaymentfee.com are priced at $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant accesshttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —USDC asset address 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/employees/171/salary