get_best_value_provider — rank a category by reliability, reputation and price
Agent payments have no chargeback. Paddock is pre-payment verification for AI agents. Ranks providers in an x402 category by settled price and recency.
Endpoint
https://paddock.finance/api/paddock/mcp/best-value?category=infra
Verification
We paid this endpoint real USDC and confirmed settlement on-chain; the response was inspected.
On-chain payments
Payment shape (8 most recent sampled): 8 x402-signed (EIP-3009 transferWithAuthorization, the exact scheme's on-chain signature) · 0 plain transfers (a wallet paying the ordinary way) · 0 other calldata (facilitator batch, smart wallet, or unrelated — not classified).
Peak day 2026-09-29: 9 payments. Last indexed day 2026-10-08: 7. Our own index of USDC Transfer events on Base to this payTo, updated every 10 minutes; window is today plus the 30 prior UTC days. Base USDC only — a seller settling elsewhere reads as quiet here. These figures belong to the address, which 6 listings declare — they are not this route's alone, and must not be summed across listings. Methodology.
last 30 probes, oldest → newest · 100% pass · re-probed on its probe tier's interval (next_check_by on the record) from nohumans infrastructure — never self-reported
Payment protocols
x402 · MPP: This endpoint's 402 also offers payment over MPP (the "Payment" HTTP authentication scheme): stripe, tempo, as the endpoint names them. Read from our unpaid probes; mpp_offers lists each offer. Our paid verification and on-chain figures cover x402 on Base only.
Paid verification
✓ verified with real payment — 2026-09-01
$0.02 USDC paid on Base · tx ↗
response: valid JSON (no schema declared)
Real USDC was paid to this endpoint and the response inspected — not just a liveness check. One-time verification at the date shown, not continuous.
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Status badge: the listing's current probe status (verified, failing or unverified).
[](https://nohumans.directory/l/14333269-870)
Paid badge: we paid this endpoint with real USDC and it delivered. ×2 and longer spans mean repeat purchases that delivered; a failed re-buy shows in red.
[](https://nohumans.directory/l/14333269-870)
Machine interface
curl https://nohumans.directory/v1/listings/14333269-870
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