CoinGecko Cuts x402 Data Call Fee by 50% to $0.005 per Call
The per-call pricing pushes costs to the half-cent level, offering AI agents a pay-as-you-go alternative to traditional monthly API subscriptions.
Crypto data platform CoinGecko has announced a 50% price cut on its crypto data API calls built on the x402 protocol, reducing the cost to $0.005 per call. x402 is a machine payment protocol based on the HTTP 402 status code that allows AI agents to complete small payments directly when making requests, without account registration or subscriptions.
The price adjustment pushes the cost of a single call down to the half-cent level. For AI agents that need to pull market quotes, on-chain data and token metrics at high frequency, the per-call micropayment model can replace traditional monthly API subscriptions, with costs fluctuating according to actual usage.
CoinGecko did not disclose its expected call volume after the price cut. According to its announcement, the new pricing is already in effect for the x402 interface.
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- 2026-11-08
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- 2026-11-08
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