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Sells discounted Venice.ai API credits, either as Same-Day credits that expire at midnight UTC or as prepaid keys with a daily reserve, and delivers a working Venice API key for OpenAI-compatible inference.

Call it x402 v2

x402 v2

Base URL
https://cheaptokens.ai
Payment
x402 v2, header channel
$ curl -i -X POST 'https://cheaptokens.ai/api/buy'

An unpaid request returns HTTP 402 with the payment terms. Settle onchain via your facilitator, then retry with the X-Payment header.

Endpoints 1 paid route on cheaptokens.ai

POST/api/buyBase$1.00since 10-07

Prices as captured in the 402 response: $1.00, unchanged since first capture.

Example 402 response

Endpoints and prices

Current paid endpoints; minimum quoted prices in USD where available; first capture dates in UTC
MethodPathDescriptionPriceNetworkAsset402 channelCaptured
POST/api/buyNo description$1.00BaseUSDCheadersince 10-07

Payment evidence

402 payload captured at . Check evidence JSON · Measurement methodology.

1 payload captured by the monitor.

176 lines, scroll inside

{
  "accepts": [
    {
      "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
      "extra": {
        "name": "USD Coin",
        "version": "2"
      },
      "payTo": "0x213c8d7434E2ae7AA1C392767c5120778D413215",
      "amount": "1000000",
      "scheme": "exact",
      "network": "eip155:8453",
      "maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
    }
  ],
  "resource": {
    "url": "https://cheaptokens.ai/api/buy",
    "tags": [
      "inference",
      "llm",
      "openai",
      "chat-completions",
      "ai",
      "venice",
      "api-credits",
      "openai-compatible"
    ],
    "category": "Inference",
    "mimeType": "application/json",
    "description": "OpenAI-compatible LLM inference and chat completions via discounted Venice API credits. Pay USDC to receive a live Venice.ai API key for /api/v1 models, chat, images, audio, video, and embeddings. Same-Day credits are 30–90% below Venice direct and expire at 23:59 UTC; Prepaid API Keys support recurring agent jobs.",
    "serviceName": "CheapTokens AI Inference"
  },
  "extensions": {
    "bazaar": {
      "info": {
        "input": {
          "body": {
            "usdPaid": 1
          },
          "type": "http",
          "method": "POST",
          "bodyType": "json"
        },
        "output": {
          "type": "json",
          "example": {
            "success": true,
            "purchase": {
              "id": "purchase_01HEXAMPLE",
              "ids": [
                "purchase_01HEXAMPLE"
              ],
              "dates": [
                "2026-04-25"
              ],
              "usdPaid": 1,
              "expiresAt": "2026-04-25T23:59:59.000Z",
              "purchaseMode": "spot",
              "creditsIssuedUsd": 2,
              "settlementTxHash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
              "discountMultiplier": 0.5
            },
            "veniceApiKey": "vn-...live-key...",
            "veniceKeyLast6": "abc123"
          }
        }
      },
      "tags": [
        "inference",
        "llm",
        "openai",
        "chat-completions",
        "ai"
      ],
      "schema": {
        "type": "object",
        "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
        "required": [
          "input"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "input": {
            "type": "object",
            "required": [
              "type",
              "method",
              "bodyType",
              "body"
            ],
            "properties": {
              "body": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                  "usdPaid"
                ],
                "properties": {
                  "usdPaid": {
                    "type": "number",
                    "minimum": 0.01,
                    "description": "Discounted USD amount to pay for Venice API credits. Minimum is based on receiving at least $0.50 in credits after current time-based pricing."
                  },
                  "purchaseMode": {
                    "enum": [
                      "spot",
                      "prepaid"
                    ],
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "Use \"spot\" for Same-Day Credits or \"prepaid\" for a Prepaid API Key with prepaid balance and daily credit reserve."
                  },
                  "reserveStart": {
                    "enum": [
                      "tomorrow"
                    ],
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "Prepaid API Key daily credit reserve start. New Prepaid API Keys start tomorrow UTC; use Same-Day Credits for work today."
                  },
                  "topUpKeyLast6": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "Optional last 6 characters of a wallet-owned active Prepaid API Key to top up."
                  },
                  "dailyReservedUsd": {
                    "type": "number",
                    "description": "Daily credit reserve amount in Venice API credits per UTC day. Required when purchaseMode=\"prepaid\". Must fit unreserved capacity for the start date and be at least one-seventh of the reserve balance."
                  },
                  "paymentSessionId": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "Opaque session ID returned in a prior 402 response; echo it back on retry."
                  }
                },
                "additionalProperties": false
              },
              "type": {
                "type": "string",
                "const": "http"
              },
              "method": {
                "enum": [
                  "POST",
                  "PUT",
                  "PATCH"
                ],
                "type": "string"
              },
              "bodyType": {
                "enum": [
                  "json",
                  "form-data",
                  "text"
                ],
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "additionalProperties": false
          },
          "output": {
            "type": "object",
            "required": [
              "type"
            ],
            "properties": {
              "type": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "example": {
                "type": "object"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "category": "Inference",
      "discoverable": true
    }
  },
  "x402Version": 2
}

Can I trust it score from our own monitoring

score from our own monitoring

82/100 Solid

#101 of 181 in AI. Bands: strong 93+, solid 75+, mixed 55+, weak below 55.

Reliability
100% uptime since 10-07
Compliance
A 14/14 checks pass
Price
$1.00 p92 in AI
Risk
clean no risk flag
Traction
$0.00 30d 0 buyers
14/14 compliance checks
  • 402 payload captured
  • accepts[] array present
  • payTo address recoverable
  • payTo at accepts[0].payTo (conformant shape)
  • payTo is a valid on-chain address
  • atomic price declared
  • atomic price in a sane range
  • asset (token) address declared
  • network resolves to CAIP-2
  • payment scheme declared
  • served over HTTPS
  • declares the current x402 version (2)
  • EIP-712 domain parameters present on every EVM entry
  • x402 v2 envelope delivered in the payment-required header

402 terms unchanged since 2026-10-07. Last up 2026-10-07.

── Site signals

  • homepage reachable
  • openapi doc
  • pricing page
  • llms.txt
  • robots.txt
  • terms page
How the score works

What the score read on this service: status online, 100% uptime, latest daily rollup (no 30d window yet), 235ms response p95, x402 compliance 14 of 14, $1 price against the category, on-chain traction measured. Each of those is measured, and each is published in full below.

The score comes from our own monitoring, never from reviews, operator claims, or a language model: reliability, x402 compliance, price against the category, a deterministic risk flag, and a small on-chain traction term, weighted by ranking generation 3. It is not placement anyone can buy: the paid verify tier is reported beside it and is not one of its inputs. Every component below stays published and read-only.

Bands on the 0 to 100 measured score: strong at 93 and above, solid from 75, mixed from 55, weak below 55. Price and speed are scored against the whole category field, every listing in it that carries no danger flag, the scored service included, so the score places a service in its own field.

It is a score inside AI, and only there: price and speed are scored against the whole category field, every listing in it that carries no danger flag, the scored service included, which here means 181 listings, this one among them: the same 181 the position above is counted against. When the two differ, the field is the wider one, because a listing we have measured too little of to rank still sits in the field the price and the speed are normalized over. The same service in a different field would read differently. The same engine answers GET /api/v1/best, and asked for a different pool (the whole directory, or another filter) it returns a different number for this service under this same ranking generation. Neither is more correct: they answer different questions, and the methodology states which is which.

Traction is a conservative undercount.

All measured facts

What it does

Sells discounted Venice.ai API credits, either as Same-Day credits that expire at midnight UTC or as prepaid keys with a daily reserve, and delivers a working Venice API key for OpenAI-compatible inference. Payment is in USDC on Base via x402.

CheapTokens is a listed x402 AI API. Captured payment terms name Base. Monitoring and settlement figures below describe the observations available to this directory; an unpaid HTTP 402 check does not prove that a paid call will deliver.

Assessment computed at . Latest service check observed at . Service data JSON · Measurement methodology.

Page rendered at . This response time is separate from the observation and computation times attached to each measurement.

Latest endpoint observation: . Latest price capture: . Prices are recorded quotes, not a promise of availability. Token assets and payment terms are listed separately. Endpoint data JSON · Price history JSON · Measurement methodology.

Assessment computed at . Uptime uses the stated daily-rollup window; response times are in milliseconds, compliance is passed/evaluated checks, and traction is a measured settlement floor. The comparison score is out of 100 within this category. Assessment JSON · Measurement methodology.

Observed daily coverage: 2026-09-08 to 2026-10-07 UTC. Daily monitoring and settlement rollups do not expose their computation time; a bucket date is not an update timestamp. Uptime and response JSON · Volume JSON · Buyers JSON · Measurement methodology.

Ranked from the measured category pool, refreshed at most once a minute. The comparison has no persisted computation timestamp; the assessment time above belongs to this service only. Ranking API documentation · Ranking methodology.

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uptime · latest daily rollup
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uptime 7d
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uptime 30d
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uptime 90d
-
response p95
235ms
avg response
235ms
total checks
1

Measured on the unpaid 402 handshake, not the paid call. A service can 402 correctly and still fail after payment.

price (min)
$1.00
category percentile (min)
p92 in AI
endpoints / prices
1 / 1
model
flat
stability
100%

No deterministic risk flag. Risk fires only on an exact blocklist match, or a reserved-brand name with a mismatched verified payTo. Never from low uptime, a high price, or a model guess.

domain age
237d
registrar
Cloudflare, Inc
hosting
custom
domain created
2026-02-12

Identity facts, not a risk score.

assessment volume 30d
$0.00
exact assessment volume 30d (USD)
0
assessment recorded at (UTC)
2026-10-07T10:33:02.769Z
buyers 30d
0
settlements 30d
0
measured since
--- (start of our harvest window)
last settlement
---
top buyer share
-
trend 7d vs 30d
-
networks
eip155:8453
volume all-time
$0
settlements all-time
0
median settlement 30d
-
max settlement 30d
-

Assessment volume uses the latest 30d assessment. Over time sums daily address snapshots, rounded to cents and refreshed separately. The two sources can differ in timing, precision and shared-address attribution. Amounts use cents for comparison; known sub-cent values keep up to 12 significant digits. The exact stored assessment value is shown above.

Conservative undercount: only USDC settlements via facilitators we measure are counted. A measured floor, not an estimate.

Top buyer share is part of the ranking score: a higher share lowers the traction part of the score, by up to half when one address holds all 30d volume.

member since
2026-10-07
Recent checks
Latest 11 unpaid HTTP checks, newest first; response times in milliseconds, observation times in UTC
Checked at (UTC)StatusHTTPResponseEndpoints
Online4021080ms1
Online402362ms1
Online402303ms1
Online402835ms1
Online402423ms1
Online402315ms1
Online4021417ms1
Online402495ms1
Online402578ms1
Online4021010ms1
Online402235ms1

Over time

On-chain volume daily snapshots, USD 30d: $0.00, peak $48.74 on 10-06
volume
Distinct buyers per dayDistinct buyers per day
Uptime no completed-day data
Volume 30d
$0.00
Uptime
no completed-day data
Daily on-chain settlement volume in US dollars, 2026-09-08 to 2026-10-07; highest day $48.74 on 10-06; distinct buyers per day
More charts
Response time daily average, ms min 641ms, avg 641ms, max 641ms

09-08 to 10-07* UTC

Each series spans only the dates it has data for. Every series is also served as JSON at /api/v1/services/cheaptokens/price, /scores, /volume and /buyers.

Values

* today so far, partial (UTC).

The uptime summary counts completed UTC days only. The strip, readouts and table retain today's partial reading.

Daily snapshot total, 30d: $512.27, peak $48.74 on 10-06. The visible 30d total in Traction comes from the latest assessment. These sources can differ in their window, refresh time, cent rounding and shared-address attribution.

Daily address snapshots: 2026-09-08 to 2026-10-07 UTC; * today so far, partial (UTC). Daily snapshots store cents. A recorded $0.00 with settlements cannot distinguish exact zero from volume rounded away. Lost precision is unavailable here.

Settlement volume uses the stored USD valuation of tracked payments; it is distinct from token quantities. USD-pegged assets are valued at 1 USD per token in these rollups. The measured settlement floor does not cover all payments to this service.

Assessment history last recorded at . Each UTC day uses its last recorded run; missing readings stay unmeasured. Assessment history JSON · Measurement methodology.

Daily values, 2026-09-08 to 2026-10-07: address settlement volume in USD, distinct buyer and settlement counts, uptime percent, average response milliseconds, compliance passed/total, price percentile 0-100, site signals out of 6; UTC dates
DayVolumeBuyersSettlementsUptimeResponseCompliancePrice percentileSite signals
2026-09-08$7.5049no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-09$25.47524no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-10$29.10425no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-11$21.60615no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-12$14.23712no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-13$5.0546no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-14$9.85510no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-15$12.0868no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-16$12.3557no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-17$7.2768no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-18$13.26514no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-19$6.4267no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-20$8.3045no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-21$28.64427no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-22$37.49639no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-23$21.90616no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-24$20.18715no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-25$6.2158no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-26$6.0026no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-27$38.17533no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-28$15.31316no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-29$6.9858no datano datano datano datano data
2026-09-30$18.50411no datano datano datano datano data
2026-10-01$25.00221no datano datano datano datano data
2026-10-02$20.07518no datano datano datano datano data
2026-10-03$9.4234no datano datano datano datano data
2026-10-04$5.1057no datano datano datano datano data
2026-10-05$29.94429no datano datano datano datano data
2026-10-06$48.74537no datano datano datano datano data
2026-10-07*$2.1434100%641.18ms14/14p925/6

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