x402-gated account balance endpoint on Base, pay-per-call with USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com provides an account balance lookup via the x402 payment protocol. The specific resource `/api/v1/accounts/132/balance` is described as "Premium API Access" and accepts POST requests. Payment is settled on the Base network using USDC (contract 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913) with a maximum cost of $0.02 per request (20,000 base units at 6 decimals).
The broader lowpaymentfee.com platform advertises a suite of x402-gated APIs spanning data analytics, AI/ML inference (sentiment analysis, summarization, classification, embeddings), finance/crypto data (price feeds, exchange rates, token quotes, gas estimates), and infrastructure utilities (geocoding, validation, conversion, generation). All endpoints are listed at $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and no minimum commitments required.
Documentation is extremely sparse — the docs, API, pricing, and README pages all render only a "Connect wallet" prompt with no further content. There is no OpenAPI schema, no request/response examples, and no detailed documentation for what the account balance endpoint actually returns or what parameters it accepts. The endpoint is confirmed live (returns a proper 402 x402 challenge), but the lack of documentation makes it difficult to use without experimentation.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Querying account balance data with per-request USDC micropayments
- —Agent-driven API access without pre-registration or API keys
- —Programmatic balance lookups settled on Base L2
Fit
Best for
- —Developers wanting zero-signup, pay-per-call API access
- —AI agents that can handle x402 payment challenges natively
- —Users who prefer crypto micropayments over subscription billing
Not for
- —Users needing detailed API documentation or OpenAPI specs before integrating
- —High-volume use cases where per-request pricing may add up versus flat-rate plans
- —Anyone without a Base-compatible USDC wallet
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/132/balance \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-token>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is confirmed live with a valid x402 402 challenge, but documentation is essentially nonexistent — all doc pages show only 'Connect wallet'. No OpenAPI schema, no request/response examples, and no description of what the account balance endpoint actually returns or accepts. The listing is effectively a stub.
Warnings
- —Documentation pages (docs, API, pricing, README) all render only 'Connect wallet' with no usable content
- —No OpenAPI or schema available — request parameters and response format are unknown
- —The specific endpoint path '/api/v1/accounts/132/balance' includes a hardcoded account ID (132); unclear if this is parameterizable
- —No request or response examples available anywhere in crawled content
Citations
- —Endpoint returns 402 with x402 challenge advertising USDC on Base network at maxAmountRequired 20000https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/132/balance
- —All endpoints listed at $0.02 per request with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —USDC asset contract is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/132/balance