x402-gated account balance endpoint on Base, pay-per-call with USDC.
What it does
This endpoint at lowpaymentfee.com provides a "Premium API Access" resource at `/api/v1/accounts/72/balance`, gated behind the x402 payment protocol. It accepts POST requests and returns JSON. Payment is settled on the Base network using USDC (contract 0x8335…2913) with a maximum amount of 20,000 base units, which equals $0.02 per request (USDC uses 6 decimals).
The broader lowpaymentfee.com platform advertises a suite of pay-per-call APIs spanning data & analytics, AI/ML (sentiment analysis, summarization, classification, embeddings), finance & Web3 (price feeds, exchange rates, token quotes, gas estimates), and infrastructure utilities (geocoding, validation, conversion, generation) — all priced at $0.02 per request. The platform emphasizes no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access via x402 on the Base network.
However, the specific endpoint being listed here (`/api/v1/accounts/72/balance`) is not explicitly documented on the site's landing page among the advertised APIs. Its purpose — presumably returning an account balance — is inferred from the URL path. No request/response schema, documentation, or examples are available beyond the x402 challenge metadata. The docs, pricing, API, and README pages all resolve to a minimal "Connect wallet" prompt with no additional content.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Querying an account balance via a pay-per-call x402 endpoint
- —Integrating micropayment-gated data retrieval into agent workflows
- —Demonstrating x402 protocol usage on the Base network
Fit
Best for
- —Developers experimenting with x402 payment protocol
- —Agents that need pay-per-call access without API key management
- —Low-cost per-request data retrieval on Base
Not for
- —Production use cases requiring documented request/response schemas
- —High-volume batch queries where per-call pricing is inefficient
- —Users who need fiat-only payment rails
Quick start
curl -X POST https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/72/balance \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <x402-payment-token>"Endpoint
Quality
The endpoint is live (402 challenge captured) and pricing is clear ($0.02/request in USDC on Base), but there is no documentation, no request/response schema, no examples, and the specific endpoint path is not listed among the site's advertised APIs. Docs pages are empty stubs. This is effectively a stub listing.
Warnings
- —The endpoint /api/v1/accounts/72/balance is not listed among the site's advertised APIs — its purpose is inferred from the URL path only.
- —No request body schema or response schema is documented anywhere.
- —All documentation pages (docs, pricing, API, README) resolve to a minimal 'Connect wallet' prompt with no useful content.
- —The hardcoded account ID '72' in the path suggests this may be a specific resource rather than a general-purpose API.
Citations
- —The x402 challenge returns maxAmountRequired of 20000 base units in USDC on Base networkhttps://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/72/balance
- —The platform advertises $0.02/request pricing with no API keys, no rate limits, and instant access on Basehttps://lowpaymentfee.com
- —USDC asset contract is 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913https://lowpaymentfee.com/api/v1/accounts/72/balance