Zero pricing intelligence kills agent businesses. Devs underprice and quit at $0.50/month, or overprice and get zero calls. Use the band. Stay near the market.
| Capability | Market | Band | SML live |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crypto price lookup | $0.001 | ±0.0002 | $0.001 |
| Gas tracker | $0.001 | ±0.0001 | $0.001 |
| Funding rates / news snack | $0.001 | ±0.0002 | $0.001 |
| Federal grants / FMR lookup | $0.001–0.01 | wide | $0.001 |
| SEC filing parse | $0.03 | ±0.005 | check tool |
| AI summary (1K tokens) | $0.005 | ±0.001 | tool-dependent |
| Wallet analysis | $0.02 | ±0.003 | tool-dependent |
If your API is priced at $0.05 for a simple price lookup → ~5× market. Consider $0.001–$0.01 depending on uniqueness.
Our public snacks ship at $0.001 USDC on Base for high-volume commodity data. Premium compute and deep federal packs can step up — but discovery snacks stay cheap so agents actually call.
# live challenge curl -sS https://acp-x402-scriptmasterlabs.onrender.com/x402/gas-tracker # → HTTP 402, amount 1000 atomic USDC ($0.001)