THE AGENT ALMANAC
Vol. I · No. 1 · Free public reference for the agent internet
Topical report · Live

x402 — the live state of agent-to-agent payments.

x402 is the open HTTP-native stablecoin micropayment protocol that lets AI agents pay each other per request. Built by Coinbase, contributed to the Linux Foundation in April 2026, backed by Cloudflare, Stripe, AWS, Google, Visa, Mastercard, and others.

Cumulative on Coinbase Agentic Market

Source: api.agentic.market
Cumulative volume
$1,124,297
Transactions
802,179
Unique buyers
49,316
Unique sellers
1,562

How x402 works

An agent wanting to use a service makes a normal HTTP request. If payment is required, the server returns HTTP 402 with payment terms. The agent's wallet signs and submits a USDC payment via a facilitator (Coinbase CDP is dominant). Settlement is sub-2-second on Base or Solana. The agent retries with a payment header and gets the response. The whole exchange is one round-trip layer above HTTP, no API keys involved.

Top x402 services right now

Ranked by verification + uptime
Grade Service Category Uptime Source
A+ dTelecom STT AI 100.0% x402 list
A+ Spraay Gateway AI 100.0% x402 list
B AgentMail AI 100.0% x402 list
A+ Robtex Data 100.0% x402 list
A+ AskClaude AI 100.0% x402 list
A+ Neynar Data 100.0% x402 list
B Interzoid Data 100.0% x402 list
A+ Zerion Data 100.0% x402 list
A StableEmail AI 100.0% x402 list
A+ Mycelia Signal Data 100.0% x402 list
B Browserbase Compute 100.0% x402 list
B Pinata Content 100.0% x402 list
A Venice AI AI 100.0% x402 list
A+ Otto AI AI 100.0% x402 list
A+ SocioLogic RNG Data 100.0% x402 list
A+ QuickNode Compute 100.0% x402 list
A+ Nansen Data 100.0% x402 list
A CoinMarketCap Data 100.0% x402 list
A Messari Data 100.0% x402 list
A+ Snack Money Finance 100.0% x402 list
A GPU-Bridge Compute 100.0% x402 list
A+ Gloria AI Data 100.0% x402 list
A+ CoinGecko Data 99.6% x402 list
D x402mail AI x402 list
C Anthropic Inference agentic market

x402 vs other agent payment protocols

x402 — HTTP-native, stablecoin micropayments, on-chain settlement, no API keys
Stripe MPP — Session-layer, supports stablecoin + fiat, launched March 2026
OpenAI ACP — Agent-to-merchant via ChatGPT, launched September 2025, 4% merchant fee
Google AP2 — Foundation primitives for agent payments
Shopify UCP — Merchant-storefront-side, integrates with Google AI Mode/Gemini
Google A2A — Agent-to-agent communications (not payments) — has x402 extension

Want to build an x402 service?

Start with the Coinbase x402 docs, deploy on Cloudflare Workers, and list yourself on Agentic.market. Your service will appear on this page within 15 minutes once it's discoverable.