Is this price the going rate?

What the provider says

Quoted from PayAI · source record · read 2026-10-26

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Facts and where they come from

Price

0.02 USDC per call Provider claim

Recorded value: 0.02 USDC per call.

Unit

per call

Protocol

x402, REST · transport: HTTP Provider claim

Auth

x402

Endpoint

https://x402-catalog-history.ai-business-surface.workers.dev/price

Source

PayAI · Public discovery API (provider-published records)

Last checked

Not checked by us yet — the data is as the source published it

First seen

2026-10-26

Payments and earnings

No settled payment on record. Earnings for this service are unknown — not zero.

Payment rails

A payment rail is where the provider asks to be paid. It is not proof that anything was paid through it. See evidence levels.

Input and output, as published

Request

{
    "type": "http",
    "method": "GET",
    "queryParams": {
        "url": "https://example.com/api/x",
        "amount": "0.02",
        "category": "domain_dns"
    }
}

Response

{
    "type": "json",
    "example": {
        "host": {
            "host": "example.com",
            "note": "Shape only.",
            "sample_size": 0
        },
        "basis": {
            "method": {
                "unit": "USD per one call of one resource",
                "dedup": "\u540c\u3058 resource URL \u306f1\u4ef6\u306b\u7573\u3093\u3060\uff08\u8907\u6570 accepts \u306e\u91cd\u8907\u3092\u4e8c\u91cd\u306b\u6570\u3048\u306a\u3044\uff09",
                "counted": 20380,
                "category_rule": "\u8cc7\u6e90\u304c\u540d\u4e57\u308b tags \u3068\u8aac\u660e\u6587\u3092\u3001\u89e3\u91c8\u53ef\u80fd\u306a14\u5206\u985e\uff08monitoring_uptime, email_check, domain_dns, web_content, crypto_onchain, security_risk, ai_inference, search_data, time_date, weather_env, package_registry, documents_reference, identity_contact, utility_calc\uff09\u306e\u8a9e\u306b\u7a81\u304d\u5408\u308f\u305b\u308b\u30021\u3064\u306e\u8cc7\u6e90\u304c\u8907\u6570\u30ab\u30c6\u30b4\u30ea\u306b\u5165\u308b\u3053\u3068\u304c\u3042\u308b\u3002\u3069\u308c\u306b\u3082\u4e00\u81f4\u3057\u306a\u3044\u8cc7\u6e90\u306f other\u3002",
                "host_coverage": "\u8cc7\u6e90\u6570\u306e\u591a\u3044\u4e0a\u4f4d 300 \u30db\u30b9\u30c8\u3060\u3051\u3092\u8f09\u305b\u308b\uff08\u540c\u30db\u30b9\u30c8\u6bd4\u8f03\u306f\u88dc\u52a9\u3067\u3042\u308a\u3001\u5168\u6570\u3092\u8f09\u305b\u308b\u5fc5\u8981\u304c\u7121\u3044\uff09",
                "free_resources": 29,
                "category_source": "resource tags first, description as fallback",
                "thin_category_n": 20,
                "unknown_price_resources": 0
            },
            "fetched_at": "2026-10-15T14:47:05.456Z",
            "sample_size": 20380,
            "verdict_rule": "cheap = at or below p25; fair = above p25 and at or below p90; expensive = above p90. Free (0) is never ranked."
        },
        "query": {
            "category": "crypto_onchain",
            "amount_usd": 0.02,
            "target_url": "https://example.com/api/x",
            "target_host": "example.com",
            "amount_atomic": "20000",
            "category_matched_by": "target URL words"
        },
        "market": {
            "p25": 0.01,
            "p90": 0.02,
            "unit": "USD per one call of one resource",
            "bands": {
                "0.5-1": 123,
                "0-0.001": 78,
                "0.1-0.5": 655,
                "0.05-0.1": 641,
                "0.01-0.05": 14061,
                "0.005-0.01": 1326,
                "0.001-0.005": 3258,
                "1-1000000000": 238
            },
            "median": 0.01,
            "fetched_at": "2026-10-15T14:47:05.456Z",
            "sample_size": 20380
        },
        "verdict": {
            "rule": "Between the 25th and 90th percentile of measured prices (p25 = $0.01, p90 = $0.02).",
            "label": "fair",
            "plain": "inside the band most measured x402 calls sit in",
            "one_line": "$0.02 sits between the 90th and 100th percentile of measured prices \u2014 fair (measured n=20380)."
        },
        "category": {
            "name": "crypto_onchain",
            "note": "Shape only; the delivered values are measured from the bundled snapshot.",
            "matched_by": "target URL words",
            "sample_size": null
        },
        "delivery": {
            "payer": "0x\u2026",
            "payment": {
                "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
                "pay_to": "0x6f60659390aDA1D02B14024d8c9d0C889f2F89c3",
                "scheme": "exact",
                "network": "eip155:8453",
                "transaction": "0x\u2026",
                "amount_atomic": "20000"
            },
            "delivered_at": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z"
        },
        "my_price": {
            "amount_usd": 0.02,
            "amount_atomic": "20000",
            "verdict_at_median": "fair"
        },
        "product_id": "x402-price-benchmark",
        "answered_at": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z",
        "price_position": {
            "band": "0.01_to_0.05",
            "relation": "at_mark",
            "amount_usd": 0.02,
            "below_median": false,
            "percentile_low": 90,
            "percentile_high": 90,
            "percentile_text": "at the 90th percentile",
            "relation_detail": "at the 90th percentile",
            "multiple_of_median": 2
        },
        "schema_version": 1
    }
}

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