Monetize paid APIs for agents
One x402-protected endpoint hands out a quota-bearing API key. The provider keeps their own metering, no per-call settlement. Live in production with Exa. Best when your service already has API keys with quotas.
Why “Use Cases” is a separate section
Nevermined started by monetizing agents — letting builders charge for the AI services they expose. But the same primitives also monetize what agents pay for to get their job done: third-party APIs, MCP tools, data feeds, anything an agent needs mid-task that a human would have paid for in a browser. That second class of integration looks different on the wire — often one purchase endpoint and the provider’s existing metering everywhere else — and it deserves its own home in the docs. More use cases will land here as the patterns get productized.Related
- Solutions — the technical implementation guides behind each use case
- Payment patterns — the lower-level building blocks
- Nevermined x402 — the protocol everything sits on