P402.io
p402.io
Optimize AI infrastructure with P402. Cost analytics, smart routing, and autonomous orchestration for AI agents and APIs.
Description
P402.io is an AI cost analytics and autonomous orchestration layer designed to optimize AI infrastructure. It sits between AI agents and providers, enforcing spend controls, settling payments in USDC, and optimizing routing in real-time. P402 helps businesses audit API usage to uncover hidden cost savings, offering features like dependency scanning, cost simulation, and smart routing. It supports the x402 standard, enabling automated payment negotiation, verification, and settlement for pay-per-call APIs and agent-to-agent interactions, and supports Base L2.
Installation
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Features
⚡️ Deep Cost Audit
Analyzes API usage, identifying wasted spend and recommending line-by-line optimizations, dependency scanning to detect and report any leak detection to avoid draining budget for the company.
⚙️ Intent-Based Routing
Dynamically routes requests based on cost, speed, or quality, integrating semantic caching for efficiency, Policy enforcement that cryptographically enforce budgets and also access rules at the edge.
🌐 Universal AI Payment Standard
Monetizes AI agents with the x402 protocol, supporting decentralized control, policy enforcement, and decision tracing, supporting bazaar discovery layer for payable endpoints, with detailed listing metadata.
Use cases
Analyze API costs to cuts expenses.
Use the Orchestrator for Haiku routing.
Achieve the payment on Base L2.
Handle requests with 402 challenges.
Settle trustlessly via the Facilitator.
FAQ
Use PAYMENT-SIGNATURE, ensure validity, amount sufficiency, and USDC/KYT compliance.
It lists payable endpoints, providing pricing and routing details for developers and AI agents.
Yes, various facilitators with different network, token, and feature profiles are available.
V2 introduces lifecycle hooks for custom logic, along with an extension system for discovery.
P402 supports settlement in USDC and USDT on the Base blockchain network.
X402 Headers use PAYMENT-REQUIRED, PAYMENT-SIGNATURE, BAZAAR, and FACILITATORS for negotiation.
MCP (Managed Compute Provider) servers can charge per tool invocation.
It enables automatic premium access upon hitting rate limits, enhancing uptime resilience.
Security is improved through role-based access, key rotation, and auditable policy changes.
Automatically list your services on the Bazaar with fresh, accurate metadata that updates itself.
Specs
| Type | Tool |
| Section | Developer Tools |
| Pricing | paid |
| Platform | Web only |
| Systems | web |
| Hosting | cloud |
| Install | saas |
| Site language | en |