payment-ready until 2026-09-19
Skim is the x402-native clean reader for AI agents: send a URL, get back agent-ready markdown plus structured metadata in milliseconds. Pay per call in USDC over HTTP 402 - no signup, no API keys. In a production benchmark - 15 real paid calls to skim402.com over the public internet, each verifiable on-chain - Skim ran 2.3x faster than Firecrawl at the median. Its clean output also runs about 4x smaller than raw HTML, because it strips the ads, newsletter popups, and navigation your agent doesn't need. Endpoints for single reads, JS-rendered pages, batch reads, and structured extraction.
Pay from $0.002 to $0.02 per request in USDC on Base, settled onchain via the x402 protocol, no signup, no API key needed.
measured since 2026-05-17 (start of our harvest window) · $15.36 all-time · settled via coinbase
VERDICT
ranking generation 3solid 88/100 #6 of 32 in Content by measured score
What the score read on this service: status online, 99.9% uptime 30d, 586ms response p95, x402 compliance 14 of 14, $0.002 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.
It is a score inside Content, 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 32 listings, this one among them. That set is wider than the 32 the position above is counted against, 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.
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.
ALTERNATIVES IN CONTENT
Other Content services in this directory, ordered by the same measured score. The figures are ours: 30-day uptime from our own probes, 30-day settlement volume read on-chain (a conservative undercount, and null where we cannot measure it, never a zero).
| SERVICE | BAND | SCORE | UPTIME 30D | VOL 30D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AnySpend | solid | 92 | 100% | $911.00 |
| 21millionpixels.art | solid | 90 | 100% | $78.98 |
| Supreme Audiobooks | solid | 90 | 100% | $0 |
| Creative Tim shadcn/ui Blocks | solid | 88 | 98.1% | $30.21 |
| penny402 | solid | 88 | 100% | $0.08 |
ASSESSMENT
updated 4h agoThe parts the verdict above is computed from, each with its proof. Click any chip. Measured values stay read-only; unknown is honest, and an unknown is never counted as a zero.
reliability 99.9%
- uptime 24h
- 100%
- uptime 7d
- 99.8%
- uptime 30d
- 99.9%
- uptime 90d
- 100%
- response p95
- 586ms
- avg response
- 295ms
- total checks
- 2,757
Measured on the unpaid 402 handshake, not the paid call. A service can 402 correctly and still fail after payment.
compliance A (14/14)
14 of 14 x402 conformance checks pass. Full checklist below.
price $0.002 to $0.02 (p14 in Content)
- price (min)
- $0.002
- price (max)
- $0.02
- category percentile (min)
- p14 in Content
- category percentile (max)
- p34 in Content
- endpoints / prices
- 4 / 4
- model
- tiered
- stability
- 100%
risk clean
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
- 114d
- registrar
- Cloudflare, Inc.
- hosting
- custom
- domain created
- 2026-05-17
Identity facts, not a risk score.
traction $1.023 30d · 21 buyers
- volume 30d
- $1.023
- buyers 30d
- 21
- settlements 30d
- 384
- measured since
- 2026-05-17 (start of our harvest window)
- last settlement
- 2026-09-11
- top buyer share
- 70% of 30d volume
- trend 7d vs 30d
- 1.34x the 30d daily rate
- networks
- eip155:8453
- volume all-time
- $15.36
- settlements all-time
- 3,361
- median settlement 30d
- $0.002
- max settlement 30d
- $0.005
- settled via
- coinbase ($1.02, 384 tx)
Conservative undercount: only USDC settlements via facilitators we measure are counted. A measured floor, not an estimate.
Top buyer share is a concentration signal, not part of the ranking score.
WHAT IT DOES
ai-derivedNo AI synthesis has been produced for this service yet.
ENDPOINTS
| METHOD | PATH | DESCRIPTION | PRICE | NETWORK | ASSET | 402 CHANNEL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POST | /api/v2/extract | $0.015 | Base | USDC | header | |
| GET | /api/v2/read | $0.002 | Base | USDC | header | |
| POST | /api/v2/read/batch | $0.02 | Base | USDC | header | |
| GET | /api/v2/read/js | $0.005 | Base | USDC | header |
REQUEST / RESPONSE EXAMPLE
An unpaid request to GET /api/v2/read returns HTTP 402 with the payment terms. Settle onchain via your facilitator, then retry with the X-Payment header.
curl -i 'https://skim402.com/api/v2/read'
// 402 response (captured by monitor) · 4 payloads · click to expand
[
{
"error": "Payment required",
"accepts": [
{
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"extra": {
"name": "USD Coin",
"version": "2"
},
"payTo": "0x63AE98f3363B346a94Fcc1CBcB621F1C2B1Fcddc",
"amount": "20000",
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
],
"resource": {
"url": "https://skim402.com/api/v2/read/batch",
"mimeType": "application/json",
"description": "Skim: batch reader — up to 10 URLs to agent-ready markdown in one paid call."
},
"extensions": {
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"type": "http",
"method": "POST",
"queryParams": {
"urls": [
"https://example.com/article-1",
"https://example.com/article-2"
]
}
},
"output": {
"type": "json",
"example": {
"results": [
{
"ok": true,
"url": "https://example.com/article-1",
"data": {
"url": "https://example.com/article-1",
"mode": "basic",
"text": "Article 1\n\n...",
"finalUrl": "https://example.com/article-1",
"markdown": "# Article 1\n\n...",
"metadata": {
"title": "Article 1"
}
},
"error": null,
"cacheHit": false
}
],
"fetchedAt": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}
},
"schema": {
"type": "object",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"required": [
"input"
],
"properties": {
"input": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string",
"const": "http"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"urls"
],
"properties": {
"urls": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"maxItems": 10,
"minItems": 1,
"description": "Up to 10 URLs to read in parallel. Returns per-URL results; partial-success batches still settle, all-fail batches return 422 (no payment settled)."
}
}
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
},
"output": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"type"
],
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string"
},
"example": {
"type": "object"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"x402Version": 2
},
{
"error": "Payment required",
"accepts": [
{
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"extra": {
"name": "USD Coin",
"version": "2"
},
"payTo": "0x63AE98f3363B346a94Fcc1CBcB621F1C2B1Fcddc",
"amount": "5000",
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
],
"resource": {
"url": "https://skim402.com/api/v2/read/js",
"mimeType": "application/json",
"description": "Skim: JS-rendered reader — full headless browser render for SPAs and JS-gated pages."
},
"extensions": {
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"type": "http",
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"url": "https://example.com/spa-page"
}
},
"output": {
"type": "json",
"example": {
"url": "https://example.com/spa-page",
"mode": "js",
"text": "SPA Article\n\nMarkdown extracted after the page's JavaScript hydrated the article body...",
"finalUrl": "https://example.com/spa-page",
"markdown": "# SPA Article\n\nMarkdown extracted after the page's JavaScript hydrated the article body.",
"metadata": {
"title": "SPA Article",
"siteName": "Example SPA"
}
}
}
},
"schema": {
"type": "object",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"required": [
"input"
],
"properties": {
"input": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string",
"const": "http"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"url"
],
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The URL of a JavaScript-rendered page (SPA, JS-gated, lazy-loaded). The server performs a full headless browser render before extracting the article."
}
}
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
},
"output": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"type"
],
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string"
},
"example": {
"type": "object"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"x402Version": 2
},
{
"error": "Payment required",
"accepts": [
{
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"extra": {
"name": "USD Coin",
"version": "2"
},
"payTo": "0x63AE98f3363B346a94Fcc1CBcB621F1C2B1Fcddc",
"amount": "2000",
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
],
"resource": {
"url": "https://skim402.com/api/v2/read",
"mimeType": "application/json",
"description": "Skim: clean reader — URL to agent-ready markdown + structured metadata."
},
"extensions": {
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"type": "http",
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"url": "https://example.com/article"
}
},
"output": {
"type": "json",
"example": {
"url": "https://example.com/article",
"mode": "basic",
"text": "Example Article\n\nClean markdown extracted from the page...",
"finalUrl": "https://example.com/article",
"markdown": "# Example Article\n\nClean markdown extracted from the page, with headings, lists, and links preserved.",
"metadata": {
"lang": "en",
"title": "Example Article",
"siteName": "Example Site",
"publishedAt": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}
}
},
"schema": {
"type": "object",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"required": [
"input"
],
"properties": {
"input": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string",
"const": "http"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"url"
],
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The URL of the web page to clean and convert to markdown."
}
}
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
},
"output": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"type"
],
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string"
},
"example": {
"type": "object"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"x402Version": 2
},
{
"error": "Payment required",
"accepts": [
{
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"extra": {
"name": "USD Coin",
"version": "2"
},
"payTo": "0x63AE98f3363B346a94Fcc1CBcB621F1C2B1Fcddc",
"amount": "15000",
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
],
"resource": {
"url": "https://skim402.com/api/v2/extract",
"mimeType": "application/json",
"description": "Skim: structured extraction — URL + JSON Schema to schema-conforming JSON via LLM."
},
"extensions": {
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"type": "http",
"method": "POST",
"queryParams": {
"url": "https://example.com/product-page",
"schema": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"name",
"price"
],
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"price": {
"type": "number"
}
}
}
}
},
"output": {
"type": "json",
"example": {
"data": {
"name": "Example Product",
"price": 29.99
},
"source": {
"url": "https://example.com/product-page",
"finalUrl": "https://example.com/product-page",
"markdownBytes": 1234,
"readerCacheHit": false
}
}
}
},
"schema": {
"type": "object",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"required": [
"input"
],
"properties": {
"input": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string",
"const": "http"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"url",
"schema"
],
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The URL to extract structured data from."
},
"schema": {
"type": "object",
"description": "JSON Schema describing the desired output shape. The server returns JSON conforming to this schema, extracted from the page via LLM."
},
"instructions": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional natural-language guidance for the extractor (e.g. 'prefer USD; ignore sale crossouts')."
}
}
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
},
"output": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"type"
],
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string"
},
"example": {
"type": "object"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"x402Version": 2
}
] OVER TIME
All charts use the 90d selector; each series spans only the dates it has data for. Every series is also served as JSON at /api/v1/services/skim/price, /scores, /volume and /buyers. On-chain volume and distinct buyers are measured over the service's settlement address and are a conservative undercount (only settlements that reach a measured facilitator are counted). The on-chain series roll up hourly, so the latest day can be up to about an hour behind; distinct buyers are counted per payout address, so a service that settles to more than one address is an upper bound.
Median across 4 endpoints. Use the selector to isolate one.
checklist grew 11->14 on 2026-07-28; a step here is a metric change, not a regression
Measured site and economics pillars from the assessment history, so the latest value shown elsewhere on this page reads as a point on a trend rather than a permanent state.
COMPLIANCE
14/14 checks pass · grade Alast 402 captured 2026-06-16 · last up 2026-09-12
- 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
SITE PILLARS
- homepage reachable
- openapi doc
- pricing page
- llms.txt
- robots.txt
- terms page
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