Demand Live X402 Payment Preflight
by Live x402 Payment Preflight in Search & web
Fetch one approved public endpoint without payment. Inspect Base and Arbitrum native-USDC quotes against caller-declared payee and spending caps, plus bounded discovery-schema observations and latency. No signing, settlement test, paid delivery, uptime guarantee or safety clearance.
https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/demand/live-x402-payment-preflight- Price
- $0.035
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 406 ms
- 723 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
How to call it
POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/demand/live-x402-payment-preflight
Each call costs $0.0349 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
From the listing.
POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/demand/live-x402-payment-preflight
content-type: application/json
{
"dataClass": "synthetic",
"expectedPayee": "0xec84c1cd6602bbe387bc8e6f0d3c062f2762de28",
"maximumAmountBaseUnits": "2000",
"requiredNetworks": [
"eip155:8453",
"eip155:42161"
],
"resource": "https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/compress"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
dataClass | string | Yes | One of: public, synthetic. |
expectedPayee | string | Yes | |
maximumAmountBaseUnits | string | Yes | |
requiredNetworks | array | Yes | |
resource | string | Yes |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 33 lines
{
"inputHash": "sha256:f7939781fcb75d5934b6b1e57fab7973742c70482e254ab338644bf42…",
"limitations": [
"Public or synthetic input only. Caller labels do not detect sens…"
],
"productId": "live-x402-payment-preflight",
"receiptDigest": "sha256:a4738c7dee75db2c9a17de1e65b969c624ec21adde68f445b1d97b3d5…",
"result": {
"allRequiredQuotesValid": true,
"deliveryTested": false,
"observation": {
"challengeDigest": "sha256:2e3c2e86639945575fa369af54f340405c259551bf3f2fc8e80280f08…",
"challengeState": "observed",
"durationMs": 20,
"networks": [
{
"amountBaseUnits": "1000",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"reasons": [],
"state": "valid_quote"
}
],
"observedAt": "2026-10-12T12:00:00.000Z",
"resource": "https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/compress",
"responseStatus": 402,
"schemaDigest": "sha256:996dfe72b52d6610106b64cf47bc4d22123c1dc8370a91608cc3b699f…",
"schemaState": "present_not_validated"
},
"paymentsMade": 0
},
"resultHash": "sha256:902d833fa3a16cd2b546ea2e30e34d0700d67905ad6d778d226a51fe9…",
"version": "maha-demand6/1.0.0"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.0349.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/demand/live-x402-payment-preflight' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"dataClass":"synthetic","expectedPayee":"0xec84c1cd6602bbe387bc8e6f0d3c062f2762de28","maximumAmountBaseUnits":"2000","requiredNetworks":["eip155:8453","eip155:42161"],"resource":"https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/compress"}'
# 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 - -X POST 'https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/demand/live-x402-payment-preflight' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"dataClass":"synthetic","expectedPayee":"0xec84c1cd6602bbe387bc8e6f0d3c062f2762de28","maximumAmountBaseUnits":"2000","requiredNetworks":["eip155:8453","eip155:42161"],"resource":"https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/compress"}' \
| 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 $0.0349 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.0349" });
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 $0.0349 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mahastrategies.com%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fdemand%2Flive-x402-payment-preflight&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/demand/live-x402-payment-preflight", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"dataClass": "synthetic",
"expectedPayee": "0xec84c1cd6602bbe387bc8e6f0d3c062f2762de28",
"maximumAmountBaseUnits": "2000",
"requiredNetworks": [
"eip155:8453",
"eip155:42161"
],
"resource": "https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/compress"
}),
});
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 $0.0349 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.0349"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/demand/live-x402-payment-preflight",
json={
"dataClass": "synthetic",
"expectedPayee": "0xec84c1cd6602bbe387bc8e6f0d3c062f2762de28",
"maximumAmountBaseUnits": "2000",
"requiredNetworks": [
"eip155:8453",
"eip155:42161",
],
"resource": "https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/compress",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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| 2 h ago | Passed | 402 | 893 ms | $0.035 |
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