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Detail Modal ForgeMesh Labs
What it doesThe platform for production AI Pay-per-crawl infrastructure for AI agents across ten web stacks
StageNot given Not given
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inUS US
Pricing modelPaid Paid
PricingStarter plan is free with $30/month compute credits. Team plan is $250/month plus compute. Enterprise plan is custom. Compute is billed per second for CPU, GPU, and memory with no charges for idle time. 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.
Key features
  • Serve LLMs, image, video, and audio models
  • Isolated environments for coding agents and RL rollouts
  • Fine-tune and train models on GPUs
  • Autoscale compute from zero to thousands of GPUs
  • Distributed storage for models and weights
  • Global capacity across 20+ clouds
  • Serverless functions with HTTPS endpoints
  • Out-of-the-box observability and logs
  • 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
What makes it different
  • Custom infrastructure built for AI including container runtime, storage, and scheduler
  • Sub-second container startup times for GPU workloads
  • Pay only by the second with no idle charges
  • Programmatically create millions of concurrent sandboxes
  • 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
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)81 +1 (up) since last check26 −1 (down) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)336
Citation Flow (Majestic)5334
Referring domains (Majestic)6174168

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