A few weeks ago I wrote up what agents were paying for on NetIntel, my platform of pay-per-call APIs settled in USDC over x402 — no signup, no API keys, no accounts. An agent hits an endpoint, gets a 402 Payment Required, pays a fraction of a cent, and gets structured data back. That's the whole loop.
Since then the dataset has grown, I've instrumented every settled call into a proper database (payer wallet, endpoint, price, latency, transaction hash), and I've launched a second settlement rail. So this is the rewrite with real numbers instead of eyeballed ones — and the findings didn't soften. They sharpened.
The setup
2,646 settled paid calls from 194 distinct paying wallets, across 101 live endpoints, over six weeks of instrumented production data. Every call in this dataset is a real on-chain payment with a transaction hash — no test traffic, no estimates. Settlement runs on Base, and as of this month on Solana too.
This is still one platform's data in a young ecosystem — the caveats are at the bottom, and one of them is bigger than it looks. But the shape has now held for six weeks straight, and it's the same shape I flagged the first time.
