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Arc Gas

by Gas price on Arc, from receipts in Onchain & crypto

x402 APIPassing, checked 2 h ago

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.

GET
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

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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-gas

Example 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 --decode
JavaScript: 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)

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