Arc Gas
by Gas price on Arc, from receipts in Onchain & crypto
What a transaction on Arc ACTUALLY costs, measured from real receipts rather than quoted from the docs. The companion to /api/x402/arc-cost, which prices a named operation at the current gas price: that one is the quote, this one is the measurement and the tail. The most repeated claim about Arc is that USDC-as-gas means predictable low fees. The low half is true; the predictable half does not survive measurement, and that is what you are buying.
https://apexfaucet.xyz/api/x402/arc-gas- Price
- $0.004
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 180 ms
- 3.0 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://apexfaucet.xyz/api/x402/arc-gas
Each call costs $0.004 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
The listing has no example input.
GET https://apexfaucet.xyz/api/x402/arc-gasExample response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"data": {
"ageSeconds": 440,
"baseFeeGwei": {},
"byKind": {},
"chain": "arc",
"chainId": 5042,
"costPerTransactionUsdc": {},
"freshness": "fresh: measured 7 minute…",
"measuredAt": "2026-10-06T05:13:18.421Z",
"method": {},
"ok": true,
"stale": false
},
"ok": true,
"paid": 0.004
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.004.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://apexfaucet.xyz/api/x402/arc-gas'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://apexfaucet.xyz/api/x402/arc-gas' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.004 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.004" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.004 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapexfaucet.xyz%2Fapi%2Fx402%2Farc-gas
const res = await pay("https://apexfaucet.xyz/api/x402/arc-gas");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.004 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.004"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://apexfaucet.xyz/api/x402/arc-gas")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 h ago | Passed | 402 | 56 ms | $0.004 |
| 6 h ago | Passed | 402 | 221 ms | $0.004 |
| 11 h ago | Passed | 402 | 259 ms | $0.004 |
| 16 h ago | Passed | 402 | 2.6 s | $0.004 |
| 20 h ago | Passed | 402 | 311 ms | $0.004 |
Show 10 older checks
| 25 h ago | Passed | 402 | 198 ms | $0.004 |
| 29 h ago | Passed | 402 | 190 ms | $0.004 |
| 33 h ago | Passed | 402 | 184 ms | $0.004 |
| 38 h ago | Passed | 402 | 133 ms | $0.004 |
| 42 h ago | Passed | 402 | 235 ms | $0.004 |
| 46 h ago | Passed | 402 | 119 ms | $0.004 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 172 ms | $0.004 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 170 ms | $0.004 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 323 ms | $0.004 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 271 ms | $0.004 |