Pricing an x402 endpoint is a blind guess without market data. Below are live benchmarks from 86 monitored services on x402-list.com (Jul 2026), cross-referenced with CDP bazaar discovery data (25,311 registered resources). Every number machine-verified.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Median price | $0.005 (half a cent) |
| Average price | $0.418 |
| Minimum | $0.000 (free tier) |
| Maximum | $19.97 |
| Services tracked | 86 (66 online, 25 verified) |
Key takeaway: median is $0.005. Average skewed by few high-ticket services ($19.97 max). Pricing above $0.01 needs a moat (unique data, low latency, compliance, brand).
| Network | Services | Avg uptime |
|---|---|---|
| Base (USDC) | 79 | 88.4% |
| Solana | 29 | 94.5% |
| Polygon | 7 | 100% |
| Arbitrum | 4 | 100% |
Base dominates: 79 of 86 services. USDC on Base is de facto standard for x402.
Services above $0.10: proprietary data (on-chain analytics, compliance), LLM inference (upstream API costs), enterprise compliance (KYC/KYT), high fixed cost (transcoding, large files). Commodity data (weather, HTTP, generic search) clusters at $0.001-$0.01.
Several services return HTTP 200 with partial data for unpaid requests, only issuing 402 when caller exceeds quota or needs premium fields. Lets crawlers index you without payment.
| Directory | Services | Index method |
|---|---|---|
| CDP Bazaar (Coinbase) | 25,311 | Auto-indexed on CDP settlement |
| Agentic.Market (Coinbase) | Public | Same index + UI |
| x402-list.com | 86 | Manual submission + probe + review |
| PayAI /list | 23,808 | Auto-indexed on PayAI settlement |
| Voidly | ~36 | Manual registration |
| Satring | 5 | Paid submission ($0.50) |
| ForgeMesh | Public | Reg via /x402/report |