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: 516 services advertising 20,347 payable endpoints.
We're pinging every one of them every ten minutes. Here's what the data says, with none of the press-release spin.
90.6% of x402 endpoints are online and correctly speaking the protocol.
In the last hour we received 81,353 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.
But one service alone is 52.4% of the whole catalog.
lowpaymentfee.com alone lists 10,659 endpoints — each a generated route under its own billing namespace. If you strip out the top 5 high-multiplicity services, the "real" service count is closer to 500 distinct providers than to the headline count of 20,347 endpoints. Catalog-size numbers by themselves are misleading.
- lowpaymentfee.com — 10,659 endpoints
- orbisapi.com — 4,507 endpoints
- Sponge — 361 endpoints
- x402.aurelianflo.com — 339 endpoints
- bridge.eruditepay.com — 284 endpoints
22 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.
146 endpoints priced at $1,000+ — $46,501,478 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.
Median price per call: $0.020. 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. 134 endpoints are actually free (explicit price = 0) — most of them still return 402 because they want the handshake anyway.
USDC still dominates, but AUSD is the quiet #2 (73 endpoints).
Of the currency-labelled endpoints, 20,274 price in USDC and 73 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.
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.
- orbisapi.com — 17,202 calls · 3,041 unique payers
- protocol.origindao.ai — 16,057 calls · 16 unique payers
- signal-engine-production-d88d.up.railway.app — 10,672 calls · 35 unique payers
- Nansen — 7,456 calls · 112 unique payers
- x402.twit.sh — 6,877 calls · 81 unique payers
Who is this for
x402station is built for developers picking services from the catalog, for the x402 Foundation team tracking ecosystem health, and for crypto data researchers looking for signal instead of press releases. The dashboard is free. A Pro tier with alerts, CSV export and a real-time API is coming shortly.