What AI agents pay per call, part 3: which x402 listings actually get paid
Part 1 and part 2 compared the prices printed in x402 listings. A listed price says what a seller hopes to charge. It does not say whether anyone pays it. The Coinbase CDP Bazaar also reports, per listing, how many distinct wallets paid it and how many paid calls it served in the last 30 days. Our price pages now have a "Which listings agents actually pay" section built from those two numbers.…
The Coinbase CDP Bazaar tracks how many unique wallets paid for listings and how many calls each listing served in the last 30 days. This analysis reveals seven categories where the patterns are unusual.
The most consistently paid listings are reselling or running known search engines (Exa, Tavily, You.com, Firecrawl), and they charge around the median price, not the lowest. Tanod's search costs USD 0.012 and has just one wallet and one call.
Among the eight most-paid listings from the EVM chain, all are hosted on api.onesource.io. They charge between USD 0.001 to 0.005 and have between 438 to 678 paying wallets each, with payments typically made once per wallet.
In the fiat rate exchange listings, the most-paid are at USD 0.005, five times the price of Tanod's USD 0.001 listing. These listings return bid and ask quotes rather than converting amounts.
For sentiment analysis, a USD 10 listing with 42 wallets has 48 calls, six times its price. The price range runs from USD 0.002 to USD 10, but the actual demand is low outside a few categories. The cheapest listings often have fewer wallets and calls.
In email verification, the most-active listing has 11 wallets and 7,206 calls at USD 0.001. Despite the high call volume, it's the only one with that many wallets.
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