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Economics Automation Comparison

by Automation Economics Comparison in Markets & finance

x402 APIPassing, checked 4 h ago

Compare up to 20 automation scenarios using declared setup cost, per-unit costs and volumes. Exact cents, savings and break-even counts; no currency conversion, demand forecast, investment advice or independently measured costs. New modular adapter: retained result recovery for 24 hours, minimal receipt metadata for 90 days. Existing live route unchanged.

POST
https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/compute/economics/automation-comparison
Price
$0.1
per call in USDC
Uptime
100%
last 30 days
Response time
187 ms
203 ms slowest 5%
Last check
Passed
4 h ago, next any minute now

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How to call it

POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/compute/economics/automation-comparison

Each call costs $0.100004 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/compute/economics/automation-comparison
content-type: application/json

{
  "currency": "USD",
  "dataClass": "synthetic",
  "scenarios": [
    {
      "assistedPerUnitCents": "600",
      "id": "small-run",
      "manualPerUnitCents": "1000",
      "setupCents": "50000",
      "units": 100
    },
    {
      "assistedPerUnitCents": "600",
      "id": "larger-run",
      "manualPerUnitCents": "1000",
      "setupCents": "50000",
      "units": 1000
    }
  ]
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
currencystringYes One of: USD.
dataClassstringYes One of: public, synthetic.
scenariosarrayYes

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

Example response, 39 lines
{
  "data": {
    "chargedAmount": "100004",
    "inputHash": "sha256:fb0b3664bb47957512ae3ffe4dd154f09f1e0387355e3d610b244582a…",
    "limitations": [
      "Public or synthetic inputs only. Caller labels are declarations,…"
    ],
    "productId": "automation-economics-compare",
    "result": {
      "approvalGranted": false,
      "basis": "synthetic",
      "limitations": [
        "USD nominal declared costs only, without discounting, tax, maint…"
      ],
      "method": "automation-economics-compare/1",
      "rows": [
        {
          "id": "small-run",
          "metrics": [
            {
              "name": "manualCents",
              "value": "100000"
            }
          ],
          "relatedIds": [],
          "status": "estimated"
        }
      ],
      "totals": []
    },
    "resultHash": "sha256:3f0696d36a9b6344058a103e77af7b73b84b93ade3837f4874ae1c4cd…",
    "sourceContractAmount": "90000",
    "version": "maha-legacy-adapter/1"
  },
  "proof": {
    "settlement_id": "0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000…"
  },
  "success": true
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.100004.

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/compute/economics/automation-comparison' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"currency":"USD","dataClass":"synthetic","scenarios":[{"assistedPerUnitCents":"600","id":"small-run","manualPerUnitCents":"1000","setupCents":"50000","units":100},{"assistedPerUnitCents":"600","id":"larger-run","manualPerUnitCents":"1000","setupCents":"50000","units":1000}]}'

# 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/compute/economics/automation-comparison' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"currency":"USD","dataClass":"synthetic","scenarios":[{"assistedPerUnitCents":"600","id":"small-run","manualPerUnitCents":"1000","setupCents":"50000","units":100},{"assistedPerUnitCents":"600","id":"larger-run","manualPerUnitCents":"1000","setupCents":"50000","units":1000}]}' \
  | 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 $0.100004 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.100004" });
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 $0.100004 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mahastrategies.com%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fcompute%2Feconomics%2Fautomation-comparison&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/compute/economics/automation-comparison", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "currency": "USD",
    "dataClass": "synthetic",
    "scenarios": [
      {
        "assistedPerUnitCents": "600",
        "id": "small-run",
        "manualPerUnitCents": "1000",
        "setupCents": "50000",
        "units": 100
      },
      {
        "assistedPerUnitCents": "600",
        "id": "larger-run",
        "manualPerUnitCents": "1000",
        "setupCents": "50000",
        "units": 1000
      }
    ]
  }),
});
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 $0.100004 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.100004"})
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/compute/economics/automation-comparison",
        json={
            "currency": "USD",
            "dataClass": "synthetic",
            "scenarios": [
                {
                    "assistedPerUnitCents": "600",
                    "id": "small-run",
                    "manualPerUnitCents": "1000",
                    "setupCents": "50000",
                    "units": 100,
                },
                {
                    "assistedPerUnitCents": "600",
                    "id": "larger-run",
                    "manualPerUnitCents": "1000",
                    "setupCents": "50000",
                    "units": 1000,
                },
            ],
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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