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State of x402 — April 2026

a data-first snapshot · numbers are live, regenerated every 5 min

Six months after Coinbase's x402 launched and three months after Cloudflare joined to form the x402 Foundation, the agentic commerce protocol has become the single largest x402 catalog: 3,502 services advertising 107,258 effective payable endpoints (108,003 raw catalog paths).

We're pinging every one of them every ten minutes. Here's what the data says, with none of the press-release spin.

01

63.7% of x402 endpoints are online and correctly speaking the protocol.

In the last hour we received 216,137 probe responses. A 200 or 402 reply means the endpoint is up and willing to handle an x402 payment flow — that's the healthy signal. The rest is split across stale 404s, 5xx errors, and network timeouts.

02

But one service alone is 18.6% of effective endpoint supply.

orbisapi.com alone lists 19,969 effective endpoints. We now keep raw catalog paths separate from effective supply: wildcard-402 catch-alls collapse to effective=1, while SPA-fallback catch-alls use sitemap/manifest counts where available. Current wildcard-402 services: 9 (470 synthetic paths collapsed). SPA-fallback services: 24 (284 synthetic paths collapsed).

03

45 services are fully dead — listed but 100% erroring.

Every endpoint returned a network error or 5xx in the last hour. Most are abandoned demo deployments or domains that expired between a catalog update and now. Agentic.market doesn't prune them; we flag them on the homepage's zombies panel.

04

76 endpoints priced at $1,000+ — $23,206,687 in aggregate placeholder decoys.

These aren't real prices. Several providers (Questflow is the biggest) assign sky-high USDC amounts to endpoints that aren't production-ready, as a soft 'do not call' signal. Automated probers that don't blacklist these would drain a wallet on the first cycle.

05

Median price per call: $0.010. Max: $500,000.

After excluding the decoys, the working-price distribution is tightly clustered around $0.02. x402 is delivering on the thesis: true per-request micropayments. 133 endpoints are actually free (explicit price = 0) — most of them still return 402 because they want the handshake anyway.

06

USDC still dominates, but AUSD is the quiet #2 (0 endpoints).

Of the currency-labelled endpoints, 81,184 price in USDC and 0 in AUSD — Agora's stablecoin, which barely shows up anywhere else in payments. Small absolute number, but worth watching: AUSD adoption in x402 is running ahead of its overall market presence.

07

x402 catalog is Base-mainnet-dominated, but the long tail spans Solana, Ethereum, Optimism and others.

We probe every chain we see in the catalog. 107,771 endpoints settle on eip155:8453 (99.8% of raw catalog paths). Payments to x402station itself settle exclusively on Base mainnet (and Sepolia for testing); chain coverage on the agent side runs ahead of payment-network coverage on our side.

Full chain breakdown at /reports/chain-distribution.json.

08

The top five services by reported usage are not who the press thinks they are.

Mainstream narratives lead with Anthropic / OpenAI / Google wrappers. In the actual totalCalls field the API exposes, the leaderboard is different: weirder, smaller, and more interesting.

For agents

The data on this page is a teaser. The production interface is an x402-paid API at /api. Your agent POSTs a URL to /api/v1/preflight, pays $0.001 USDC, and gets back { ok, warnings, metadata } detecting decoys, zombies, and price traps before committing a payment. No keys, no accounts.

API docs →ManifestGitHub