Real-time CVS stock price via x402 micropayment on Base for $0.02 per request.
What it does
This endpoint returns the current stock price for CVS Health Corporation (ticker: CVS) through a pay-per-call x402 protocol. It is part of the lowpaymentfee.com platform, which offers a broad suite of data, AI, finance, and utility APIs all priced at $0.02 per request, settled in USDC on the Base network.
The endpoint accepts POST requests and returns JSON. Payment is handled inline via the x402 protocol: callers attach an X-PAYMENT header containing a signed USDC payment of up to 20,000 base units ($0.02, since USDC uses 6 decimals) on Base. No API keys, accounts, or rate limits are required — access is granted per-payment.
The broader lowpaymentfee.com platform advertises additional endpoints for analytics, AI inference (sentiment analysis, summarization, classification, embeddings), finance (price feeds, exchange rates, crypto quotes, gas estimates), and utilities (geocoding, validation, conversion, generation), all at the same $0.02 price point. Documentation pages beyond the landing page were largely empty at crawl time, so detailed request/response schemas for this specific stock-price endpoint are not available.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Fetching the current CVS stock price for a trading bot or portfolio tracker
- —Agents that need on-demand equity price data without managing API keys
- —Pay-per-use stock price lookups embedded in financial dashboards
Fit
Best for
- —AI agents needing instant, keyless access to CVS stock price data
- —Developers who want pay-per-call pricing without subscriptions
- —Crypto-native applications settling on Base L2
Not for
- —Bulk historical stock data downloads (only current price is offered)
- —Users who need stock data for tickers other than CVS from this specific endpoint
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/stocks/CVS/price \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-signed-payment>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live (402 challenge captured) with clear pricing ($0.02 USDC on Base), but there is no OpenAPI schema, no documented request/response format, and the docs/pricing/README pages were empty. The specific stock-price endpoint's response shape must be inferred.
Warnings
- —No OpenAPI or JSON schema available for request or response bodies
- —Documentation pages (/docs, /pricing, /README) returned no useful content at crawl time
- —Response format for the stock price endpoint is unknown — no example responses available
- —The platform lists many endpoints but it is unclear which are fully functional beyond returning 402 challenges
Citations
- —Endpoint returns HTTP 402 with x402 challenge requiring USDC payment on Basehttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/stocks/CVS/price
- —maxAmountRequired is 20000 base units of USDC (asset 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913), equaling $0.02https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/stocks/CVS/price
- —Platform pricing is $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —Platform offers APIs across data/analytics, AI/ML, finance/Web3, and infrastructure categorieshttps://lowpaymentfee.com