Pay-per-crawl infrastructure for AI agents across ten web stacks
Member-governed cooperative for AI inference
Stage
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Founded
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Based in
US
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Pricing model
Paid
Freemium
Pricing
API services priced from $0.005 per call in USDC. Pro plan $4.99 per month for up to 5 sites. x402 Starter Kit from $49.
Dues: sliding scale starting at $5/month. All members receive $15/month credit for chat and API. Additional credits available for purchase; credits never expire and carry over month to month.
Key features
HTTP 402 payment gating across ten web stacks
Direct wallet payments with no custody or intermediaries
Support for WordPress, Drupal, Laravel, Next.js, Node, Cloudflare, nginx, Caddy, Traefik and Python
Shared crawler catalog with 85 agents
USDC payments on Base mainnet
Pro dashboard with paywall monitoring and crawler intel
Discovery files including /.well-known/x402.json, llms.txt and agents.txt
PayAI default facilitator with support for custom facilitators
Published to npm, PyPI, Packagist and drupal.org
Web search built into chat
File uploads and document support
OpenAI-compatible developer API
Personal API keys
Encrypted enclave privacy option
100% renewable energy option
Member governance participation
Shared monthly credit allowance
Publicly developed models
What makes it different
Single identical payment gate that works across ten different web stacks without requiring accounts or API keys
100% of payments go directly to site owners' wallets with no custody or intermediaries
Runs by one person with nineteen live paid services and no outside capital
All services self-serve and automated by design with on-chain settlement
Member-governed cooperative structure where users help decide the direction and choices
Equal membership with sliding-scale pricing based on ability to pay
Choice of AI models by values including privacy and renewable energy
No data lock-in; members own their data and can cancel anytime
Credits never expire and carry over month to month