RESEARCH LEDGER

x402 evidence for buyers and builders.

Fifteen practical guides and field reports built from live directory data, public registries, official protocol documentation and explicit verification rules.

FIELD REPORT2026-07-10

State of x402 pricing in 2026: what agents actually pay

A practical reading of visible per-call prices in the TOLL·402 catalog, including what the data can and cannot support.

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FIELD REPORT2026-07-10

x402 endpoint health report: July 2026

What a 74,889-resource crawl reveals about healthy, degraded, down and unknown x402 endpoints.

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FIELD REPORT2026-07-10

How TOLL·402 discovered 25,783 x402 services

The primary CDP Bazaar service crawl, secondary health crawl, normalization, deduplication and labeling rules behind the TOLL·402 datasets.

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BUYER GUIDE2026-07-10

Best x402 APIs for web scraping and extraction

How to evaluate pay-per-page scrapers, extraction gateways and browser services without confusing availability with verification.

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BUYER GUIDE2026-07-10

Best x402 MCP servers: a buyer's evidence checklist

A criteria-first guide to choosing paid MCP tools by capability, transport, price and connection reality.

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BUYER GUIDE2026-07-10

Free and sub-cent x402 APIs: what 'cheap' really means

How to find low-cost x402 tools without treating unknown prices, free overview calls and paid work as the same thing.

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BUYER GUIDE2026-07-10

x402 on Base vs Solana: how buyers should choose

A buyer-focused comparison of network identifiers, wallet support, service availability and policy implications.

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BUYER GUIDE2026-07-10

How AI agents pay for APIs with x402

A direct, current explanation of the unpaid request, payment requirements, signer, retry and settlement response.

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BUYER GUIDE2026-07-10

How to choose an x402 service before your agent pays

A reusable decision framework covering capability, evidence, price, policy and one-call validation.

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BUYER GUIDE2026-07-10

x402 vs API keys and subscriptions for agent tools

Where pay-per-call HTTP payments reduce friction, and where accounts or subscriptions still provide useful control.

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FIELD REPORT2026-07-10

x402 quote checked vs paid-call verified

The exact difference between observing a valid 402 requirement and proving settlement plus useful output.

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FIELD REPORT2026-07-10

How TOLL·402 verifies x402 services

The directory's evidence ladder, safety boundaries and rules for awarding or removing trust signals.

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PROVIDER GUIDE2026-07-10

How to make an MCP server payable with x402

A provider-oriented implementation map covering payment wrappers, discovery metadata and buyer compatibility.

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PROVIDER GUIDE2026-07-10

How to publish x402 Bazaar metadata agents can use

A practical checklist for discoverable route descriptions, schemas, examples and settlement-backed indexing.

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PROVIDER GUIDE2026-07-10

Why x402 services fail verification

The practical causes behind unreachable endpoints, invalid requirements, stale schemas and paid-but-unusable responses.

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