How Does Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines Work? 9 Payments, 1 Budget, 0 Per-Payment Approvals Named
How Does Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines Work? 9 Payments, 1 Budget, 0 Per-Payment Approvals Named Mastercard opened early access to Agent Pay for Machines on October 20, 2026, at Cloudflare Connect. In the live demonstration, an agent for marketing agency Hype made 9 payments to 2 merchants — social-media research from AIsa and eight campaign images from Cloudflare AI Gateway — inside one…
Mastercard introduced Agent Pay for Machines on October 20, 2026, during Cloudflare Connect. An agent for marketing agency Hype was able to make nine payments to two merchants through one budget and one plan. The payments were processed using the x402 protocol, with no separate accounts, API keys, or invoices required. The merchants, AIsa and Cloudflare AI Gateway, verified the signed payment vouchers before delivering the services. The project is still in pilot stage and not commercially available.
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