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pay.sh catalog pulse / 2026-05-10

Agent-paid APIs need launch controls before agents start spending.

Pay.sh exposes a live catalog of APIs that agents can discover, price, and call. This pulse turns that machine-readable catalog into a launch-readiness map: where spend, contact data, messaging, DNS, finance, and wide endpoint surfaces need price previews, caps, receipts, metadata filtering, and provider validation.

providers
72
metered
61
free tier
27

review priority

Provider surfaces to inspect before public agent demos.

open gate

high / 66

AgentMail

Create and operate dedicated email inboxes for AI agents. Supports programmatic inbox creation, outbound sending, inbound message retrieval, unique agent addresses, workflow automation, and no manual account setup for email-based agent tasks.

category
messaging
endpoints
83
price
$0-$10
free tier
yes
  • meaningful per-call spend
  • wide endpoint surface
  • message-sending workflow
  • personal or business-contact data
provider endpoint

medium / 56

StableCrypto

Access crypto market and on-chain data through CoinGecko, DefiLlama, Alchemy, and Etherscan. Covers prices, DEX pools, DeFi TVL, yields, bridges, treasuries, token balances, transactions, contracts, logs, gas, and Ethereum stats.

category
finance
endpoints
105
price
$0.01
free tier
no
  • wide endpoint surface
  • financial data or wallet context
  • untrusted web-data input
  • metered without free tier
provider endpoint

medium / 50

StableDomains

Register, renew, and manage DNS for domains via stablecoin micropayments. Supports common TLDs including .com, .org, .net, .io, .ai, .dev, .app, and .xyz, plus DNS record creation and updates without traditional registrar billing.

category
cloud
endpoints
9
price
$0.1-$1,500
free tier
yes
  • large per-call ceiling
  • message-sending workflow
  • domain or DNS workflow
provider endpoint

medium / 44

Quicknode

Pay-per-request JSON-RPC endpoints for 140+ blockchain networks. Each chain is its own path (e.g. solana-mainnet, ethereum-mainnet). Supports SIWX session auth, x402 micropayments, dynamic per-method pricing, and direct node access without infrastructure.

category
compute
endpoints
141
price
$0.001-$1
free tier
yes
  • wide endpoint surface
  • financial data or wallet context
provider endpoint

medium / 44

Alibaba Cloud OCR API

Extract text and structured document data with Alibaba Cloud OCR API, including high-Precision Full-Text Recognition, air Travel Itinerary Recognition, and unified OCR Recognition, for OCR workflows.

category
ai_ml
endpoints
75
price
$0.001
free tier
no
  • wide endpoint surface
  • metered without free tier
provider endpoint

medium / 44

StableEnrich

Unified enrichment gateway for Apollo, Exa, Firecrawl, Google Maps, Hunter, Minerva, Reddit, Serper, Whitepages, Cloudflare, and more. Covers people and company enrichment, web search, scraping, maps, email verification, and property data.

category
data
endpoints
34
price
$0.002-$0.44
free tier
yes
  • message-sending workflow
  • personal or business-contact data
  • untrusted web-data input
provider endpoint

medium / 44

Nyne AI

Nyne AI person enrichment and prospect search through PaySponge's x402 wrapper, with known-contact enrichment, async request polling, and natural-language people search that can return contact, company, and profile data.

category
data
endpoints
3
price
$0-$0.02
free tier
no
  • message-sending workflow
  • voice or calling workflow
  • personal or business-contact data
  • untrusted web-data input
provider endpoint

medium / 44

Textbelt SMS API

Send outbound SMS to supported-country phone numbers and check delivery status through PaySponge's x402-wrapped Textbelt service. Supports optional sender metadata, reply webhooks, and webhook data passthrough.

category
messaging
endpoints
2
price
$0-$0.02
free tier
no
  • message-sending workflow
  • voice or calling workflow
  • financial data or wallet context
  • untrusted web-data input
provider endpoint

catalog shape

Where the catalog clusters.

category providers
ai_ml33
data6
search5
messaging4
maps4
translation4
security4
shopping3

spend ceiling

Highest per-call price surfaces.

medium / 50

StableDomains

Register, renew, and manage DNS for domains via stablecoin micropayments. Supports common TLDs including .com, .org, .net, .io, .ai, .dev, .app, and .xyz, plus DNS record creation and updates without traditional registrar billing.

category
cloud
endpoints
9
price
$0.1-$1,500
free tier
yes
  • large per-call ceiling
  • message-sending workflow
  • domain or DNS workflow
provider endpoint

medium / 42

StablePhone

Make AI-powered outbound phone calls, buy dedicated phone numbers, extend number leases, and look up iMessage or FaceTime capability. Supports call IDs, caller ID continuity, global phone workflows, and pay-per-call voice automation.

category
messaging
endpoints
7
price
$0.05-$20
free tier
yes
  • meaningful per-call spend
  • message-sending workflow
  • voice or calling workflow
provider endpoint

high / 66

AgentMail

Create and operate dedicated email inboxes for AI agents. Supports programmatic inbox creation, outbound sending, inbound message retrieval, unique agent addresses, workflow automation, and no manual account setup for email-based agent tasks.

category
messaging
endpoints
83
price
$0-$10
free tier
yes
  • meaningful per-call spend
  • wide endpoint surface
  • message-sending workflow
  • personal or business-contact data
provider endpoint

watch / 32

StableEmail

Send email, buy dedicated inboxes, manage custom subdomains, and retrieve inbound messages through per-request email APIs. Supports shared relay sending, subdomain sender identities, forwarding inboxes, message storage, and attachment access.

category
messaging
endpoints
24
price
$0.001-$8
free tier
yes
  • message-sending workflow
  • domain or DNS workflow
provider endpoint

endpoint width

Widest endpoint surfaces.

medium / 44

Quicknode

Pay-per-request JSON-RPC endpoints for 140+ blockchain networks. Each chain is its own path (e.g. solana-mainnet, ethereum-mainnet). Supports SIWX session auth, x402 micropayments, dynamic per-method pricing, and direct node access without infrastructure.

category
compute
endpoints
141
price
$0.001-$1
free tier
yes
  • wide endpoint surface
  • financial data or wallet context
provider endpoint

medium / 56

StableCrypto

Access crypto market and on-chain data through CoinGecko, DefiLlama, Alchemy, and Etherscan. Covers prices, DEX pools, DeFi TVL, yields, bridges, treasuries, token balances, transactions, contracts, logs, gas, and Ethereum stats.

category
finance
endpoints
105
price
$0.01
free tier
no
  • wide endpoint surface
  • financial data or wallet context
  • untrusted web-data input
  • metered without free tier
provider endpoint

high / 66

AgentMail

Create and operate dedicated email inboxes for AI agents. Supports programmatic inbox creation, outbound sending, inbound message retrieval, unique agent addresses, workflow automation, and no manual account setup for email-based agent tasks.

category
messaging
endpoints
83
price
$0-$10
free tier
yes
  • meaningful per-call spend
  • wide endpoint surface
  • message-sending workflow
  • personal or business-contact data
provider endpoint

medium / 44

Alibaba Cloud OCR API

Extract text and structured document data with Alibaba Cloud OCR API, including high-Precision Full-Text Recognition, air Travel Itinerary Recognition, and unified OCR Recognition, for OCR workflows.

category
ai_ml
endpoints
75
price
$0.001
free tier
no
  • wide endpoint surface
  • metered without free tier
provider endpoint

control list

What every agent-payment demo should prove.

price

Quote before action

The agent should see provider, endpoint, quoted price, network, max total, and failure state before the paid call is allowed.

cap

Enforce outside the prompt

Spend caps should live in wallet, server, policy middleware, or facilitator configuration, not only in natural-language instructions.

metadata

Filter payment metadata

Prompts, private user IDs, contact data, ticket text, and retrieval context should not leak into receipts or provider-visible metadata.

audit

Preserve receipts and denials

Keep payment request, decision, receipt, retry, refund, deny reason, and human approval evidence in a reviewable log.