The AI network · ≈ 12 min

Put it together: an agent that pays for what it uses

Discovery, price comparison and payment — the loop that makes an autonomous agent more than a chatbot.

An agent with a wallet can buy the capabilities it lacks. On Animica that loop is: discover → compare → quote → pay → use.

Find something that does what you need, under a price you set:

curl "https://x402.animica.dev/api/v1/search?capability=web+search&max_price=0.01&asset=USDC"

Every listing carries an observed reliability score, measured uptime and p50 latency — not a self-reported one.

Then take a quote. A quote reserves a price; it does not charge you:

curl -sX POST https://x402.animica.dev/api/v1/route/quote \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"capability":"web search","max_price":"0.005","asset":"ANM"}'

The response splits the price honestly:

"seller_price":    "0.005000000",
"marketplace_fee": "0.000025000",
"total_price":     "0.005025000"

Note that max_price is a ceiling on the total, fee included. A router that filtered on the seller price and then added a fee would quietly exceed the limit you gave it.

The x402 protocol in one paragraph: you call a paid endpoint, it answers 402 Payment Required with machine-readable terms, you sign a payment for exactly those terms, you call again with the proof, you get the resource. No account, no API key, no signup — which is precisely what an autonomous agent needs, because it cannot fill in a signup form.

Paying in ANM is usually cheaper than USDC, and for a structural reason worth understanding: on Base, a facilitator sponsors the gas for your payment, which puts a floor of roughly \$0.008 under any transaction. On Animica the payer signs and pays their own fee, so that floor does not exist. Sub-cent calls — most of the x402 economy by volume — are only really sellable on the native lane.

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