Reports / 2026-41
State of paid agent tools, 2026-41
ISO week 2026-41 (2026-10-05 to 2026-10-11) · JSON · RSS · compared with 2026-40
Data snapshot: Oct 5, 2026, 10:06 AM ET · window: rolling 30 days ending at data_as_of · ISO week 2026-41
Headline (wash-filtered)
| x402 services with verified paid usage | 495 (+29 vs prior report) |
| Settlements, last 30 days | 331,729 (-38,578 vs prior report) |
| Measured volume, last 30 days | $41,349.14 USDC (-3,029.56 vs prior report) |
| Verified buyers, summed per service* | 15,324 (-4 vs prior report) |
| Median verified buyers per service | 8 |
| Median lowest listed price | $0.01 per call |
| Listings excluded for wash signals | 119 of 906 x402 services tracked |
| Top 10 services' share of summed buyers | 36.9% |
* A wallet that pays several services is counted once per service, so this is not the number of unique buyers.
By category
| Category | Services with paid usage | Verified buyers* | Settlements 30d | Volume 30d | Median price | Excluded (wash) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crypto & on-chain data | 75 | 5,492 | 80,638 | $28,923.2 | $0.007 | 13 |
| Security & verification | 109 | 2,489 | 20,276 | $210.88 | $0.01 | 22 |
| Media: speech, video & image | 47 | 1,726 | 19,767 | $3,554.52 | $0.005 | 13 |
| Scraping & extraction | 35 | 998 | 5,749 | $660.66 | $0.01 | 5 |
| LLM inference | 47 | 989 | 86,865 | $4,876.45 | $0.01 | 13 |
| People & company enrichment | 44 | 978 | 59,339 | $1,643.97 | $0.01 | 24 |
| Social data | 22 | 814 | 21,809 | $433.61 | $0.01 | 7 |
| Web search | 39 | 641 | 12,040 | $180.37 | $0.005 | 7 |
| Finance & markets | 23 | 500 | 6,946 | $14.89 | $0.03 | 2 |
| Other | 24 | 282 | 13,018 | $175.57 | $0.02 | 4 |
| Compute & infra tools | 8 | 137 | 2,425 | $62.03 | $0.06 | 2 |
| Off-ramp, gift cards & payouts | 3 | 93 | 697 | $602.91 | $0.01 | 1 |
| Travel | 8 | 70 | 750 | $5.65 | $0.05 | 3 |
| Reports & research | 7 | 60 | 955 | $4.1 | $0.01 | 2 |
| Developer tools | 1 | 28 | 355 | $0.09 | $0.02 | 0 |
| Weather & geo | 1 | 17 | 77 | $0.08 | $0.001 | 1 |
| Productivity & docs | 2 | 10 | 23 | $0.15 | $0.002 | 0 |
Top 10 services by verified buyers
| Service | Category | Buyers 30d | Settlements 30d | Volume 30d | From | Trust |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OneSource | crypto onchain data | 1,990 | 16,049 | $109.59 | $0.001 | 80 |
| BlockRun | llm inference | 471 | 75,224 | $3,756.52 | $0.003 | 87 |
| Otto AI | media speech video image | 464 | 4,829 | $46.36 | $0.001 | 92 |
| Content Intelligence API (shared payout) | scraping extraction | 390 | 874 | $0.65 | $0.01 | 84 |
| Domain Intelligence API (shared payout) | security verification | 390 | 874 | $0.65 | $0.02 | 84 |
| Gotobi Calendar API (shared payout) | crypto onchain data | 390 | 874 | $0.65 | $0.01 | 84 |
| Hugen DeFi Intelligence API (shared payout) | security verification | 390 | 874 | $0.65 | $0.01 | 84 |
| Hugen Intel API (shared payout) | security verification | 390 | 874 | $0.65 | $0.5 | 84 |
| Hugen Visual API (shared payout) | media speech video image | 390 | 874 | $0.65 | $0.02 | 84 |
| Hugen Weather API (shared payout) | crypto onchain data | 390 | 874 | $0.65 | $0.01 | 84 |
Price bands (lowest listed price, services with paid usage)
| under $0.001 | 5 services |
| $0.001 to under $0.01 | 206 services |
| $0.01 to under $0.10 | 218 services |
| $0.10 and up | 66 services |
Index coverage
40,208 listings: MCP servers 39,171, paid HTTP APIs 1,034, kits 3. Sources: Official MCP Registry 39,171, x402-list 906, MPP registry 137, first-party 3. Discovery files found: x402 manifest 610, OpenAPI 742, llms.txt 700, A2A card 300.
Settlements Agentropolis verified on-chain
3 listings · 0 independent settlements in 30 days · 3 disclosed test purchases (not counted). Our own three kits have only disclosed test purchases so far: no independent sales yet.
Methodology
- Scope: x402 services listed on x402-list.com with on-chain measured USDC settlements in the 30 days before the data snapshot. MPP services and MCP servers are counted in the index totals but have no settlement data yet.
- Wash filter (hub-trust-v0.1): a service is excluded when one buyer makes up 80% or more of volume (10+ settlements), when 2 or fewer buyers account for $50+, or when there are 1.5 or fewer calls per buyer across 50+ buyers (wallet-farm pattern). Excluded services count toward 'excluded for wash signals' only.
- Verified buyers are summed per service: a wallet that pays five services is counted five times. The sum is therefore not the number of unique buyers in the market.
- Prices are the lowest listed price per call or unit from public metadata; the seller's live HTTP 402 challenge is authoritative and actual paid amounts can differ.
- Windows are rolling 30 days ending at the data snapshot time, not the calendar week in the report name. The week is the ISO week of the snapshot.
- Agentropolis-verified settlements are payments we confirmed ourselves by reading Base receipts to a payTo the seller published. Purchases by the seller, the operator or Agentropolis (test sales) are shown but never counted.
- Volume is the measured USDC value of settlements. It can differ from listed price x settlements (tiered prices, discounts, test-priced calls).
- Coinbase x402 Bazaar / Agentic.Market data is not used or republished (their terms forbid aggregation).
Caveats
- Wash flags are signals, not accusations; sybil farms using many funded wallets can still pass.
- x402-list coverage is incomplete, so totals are a lower bound for x402 activity.
- Services that share one payout wallet (marked shared payout) can show identical numbers, because settlements are measured per wallet; each listing is still counted separately.
- Not financial advice.
Attribution. Paid-usage data: x402-list.com (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), on-chain measured USDC settlements. Wash filtering, aggregation and categories: Agentropolis (hub-trust-v0.1).
Cite as: Agentropolis, "State of paid agent tools, 2026-41", https://agentropolis.io/reports/2026-41. Paid-usage data: x402-list.com (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), on-chain measured USDC settlements. Wash filtering, aggregation and categories: Agentropolis (hub-trust-v0.1).
Cite as: Agentropolis, "State of paid agent tools, 2026-41", https://agentropolis.io/reports/2026-41. Paid-usage data: x402-list.com (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), on-chain measured USDC settlements. Wash filtering, aggregation and categories: Agentropolis (hub-trust-v0.1).
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