x402 sellers earned $40,326 from per-call payments in October
Monthly report · October 2026, published 2026-11-05. Figures cover 1–31 October (UTC) and do not update. The next one covers November.
x402 lets software pay for an API one request at a time, in USDC. In October, 1,536 sellers listed in our directory were paid $40,326 in 1.7 million per-call payments from 13,019 different wallets. The average payment was 2.3 cents.
The money is real, and very unevenly shared. Seven sellers earned more than $1,000 and took 76% of it. The median seller earned 29 cents. 611 sellers were paid by ten or more different wallets, and 28 of those earned $100 or more.
How the money was shared
| what a seller earned in October | sellers | money they received | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| under $1 | 1,034 | $220.07 | ||
| $1 – $10 | 360 | $1,187.96 | ||
| $10 – $100 | 113 | $3,456.30 | ||
| $100 – $1,000 | 22 | $4,933.16 | ||
| $1,000 – $10,000 | 6 | $16,984.63 | ||
| $10,000 – $100,000 | 1 | $13,544.29 | ||
| all sellers | 1,536 | $40,326.41 |
The 10th-largest seller received $445.31 and the 100th $18.53. The top 10 received 79% of the money and the top 100 received 95%.
What these figures are
- Source: our own index of USDC transfers on Base to the payment addresses (payTo) of x402 APIs listed in nohumans.directory. We can see payments to the APIs we list, not every x402 payment there is.
- Per-call payments only: a payer’s transfers to an address on one day count only when they average $1 or less, so top-ups and treasury moves are left out. With every transfer counted, October’s total would be $969,363, most of it in transfers averaging more than $1, which are not per-call payments.
- A seller is one payment address. Some sellers run several APIs on one address; a few addresses may be shared.
- Payers are wallets. We cannot tell which are AI agents and which are scripts or people. Our own wallets are excluded.
- A transfer to a listed payTo is a payment to that address, not proof that it was for the listed service.
- No seller or payer is named here, and none will be.
For sellers
What x402 APIs charge, and what separates the few that earn: guide 5. Building one: guide 1. Already built one: check it free and list it.
Data
- /state/economy-2026-10.json — these figures as JSON (CC-BY-4.0).
- /state — the weekly reports, with a three-day economy line each week.
- methodology — how we probe and buy.
Corrections: hello@nohumans.directory · CC-BY-4.0.