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Coinbase x402

Coinbase, Inc. (protocol stewarded by the x402 Foundation, a Linux Foundation project) · commercial

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Try itExperimental

See what an agent can do with Coinbase x402 before you ever sign up. Pick a story: recorded sessions replay real probe-harness transcripts; commands tagged live-capable can re-run against the real endpoint from our edge, right now (▶ run live — the exact same request, live and recorded lines always labeled); sandboxed self-drive sessions are designed and gated (docs/TRY-IT.md).

$curl -s https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources # the x402 Bazaar, keyless by designrecorded session — replayed, not live
recorded 2026-09-14 · exit 0 · captured verbatim by our probe harness, secrets redacted · pure-HTTP probe — ▶ run live re-runs it from our edge

Verified integrations

No integration evidence found in our corpus for this product yet — that means none was found, never that it doesn’t integrate.

By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme

Agent checkout — stories about agent checkout in this arenaAgent checkoutevidence →

Stories about agent checkout in this arena

18.6/100

Agent discovery — stories about agent discovery in this arenaAgent discoveryevidence →

Stories about agent discovery in this arena

64.2/100

Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →

How well agents can access and operate the product

24.9/100

Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →

How much of the product can run unattended

31.2/100

Fees economics — stories about fees economics in this arenaFees economicsevidence →

Stories about fees economics in this arena

63.3/100

Merchant enablement — stories about merchant enablement in this arenaMerchant enablementevidence →

Stories about merchant enablement in this arena

34.3/100

Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →

Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories

33.6/100

Order lifecycle — stories about order lifecycle in this arenaOrder lifecycleevidence →

Stories about order lifecycle in this arena

n/a

Payment credentials — stories about payment credentials in this arenaPayment credentialsevidence →

Stories about payment credentials in this arena

54.5/100

Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →

Data-handling and privacy stories

0.0/100

Protocol openness — stories about protocol openness in this arenaProtocol opennessevidence →

Stories about protocol openness in this arena

80.0/100

Refunds disputes — stories about refunds disputes in this arenaRefunds disputesevidence →

Stories about refunds disputes in this arena

9.0/100

Trust safety — stories about trust safety in this arenaTrust safetyevidence →

Stories about trust safety in this arena

3.6/100

Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts

What’s free: 13 free · 0 paid · 0 enterprise · 16 not stated in evidence

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Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 56/56 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence

Connect an agent via an official MCP server G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3partialfree6/10C

Drive the product through a documented public API G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3partialfree6/10T

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3n/auntestednone yet

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3n/auntestednone yet

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2fullfree8/10T

Build against official SDKs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partialfree6/10T

Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial5/10C

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial4/10C

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial4/10C

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Operate the product with natural-language commands G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Subscribe to events via webhooks G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Use an official CLI G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness1partial3/10C

My agent can programmatically search products or services across merchants — keylessly or with self-service credentials, no private partnership required C

Agent search

ai-native userAgent discovery — stories about agent discovery in this arenaAgent discovery3fullfree9/10T

I have a documented self-serve path to start accepting agent traffic — enable a setting, sign an agreement, or publish an endpoint C

Onboarding to agents

merchantMerchant enablement — stories about merchant enablement in this arenaMerchant enablement3fullfree8/10T

Monetize an API or service with HTTP 402 machine payments that agents pay per call without a checkout UI C

Machine payments

developerPayment credentials — stories about payment credentials in this arenaPayment credentials3full8/10T

The commerce protocol this product speaks is published as an open, versioned specification I can read and implement without signing anything C

Spec publication

developerProtocol openness — stories about protocol openness in this arenaProtocol openness3fullfree8/10T

My agent can complete a purchase end-to-end — checkout session, delegated payment credential, confirmed order C

Checkout

ai-native userAgent checkout — stories about agent checkout in this arenaAgent checkout3partial7/10T

Publish my product or service catalog into agent surfaces through a documented feed or import API so AI agents can discover what I sell C

Merchant feeds

merchantAgent discovery — stories about agent discovery in this arenaAgent discovery3partialfree6/10T

Self-host the core product G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3partial6/10T

Hand my agent a scoped, limited-use payment credential — amount limits, expiry, merchant restrictions — instead of a raw card number C

Delegated credentials

ai-native userPayment credentials — stories about payment credentials in this arenaPayment credentials3partial5/10C

Provision a wallet my agent holds and spends from — funded and controlled by me, with balance visibility C

Wallets

ai-native userPayment credentials — stories about payment credentials in this arenaPayment credentials3partial5/10C

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth3partial4/10C

Agents identify themselves verifiably — registered profiles, signatures, or trust tiers — so I can tell trusted agent traffic from anonymous bots C

Agent identity

merchantTrust safety — stories about trust safety in this arenaTrust safety3none0/10

My agent can create and update a cart or order draft through a documented protocol call C

Cart

ai-native userAgent checkout — stories about agent checkout in this arenaAgent checkout3none0/10

Sensitive agent spending requires my documented approval — a confirmation step, signed mandate, or per-purchase consent — before money moves C

Human oversight

ai-native userTrust safety — stories about trust safety in this arenaTrust safety3none0/10

Export all of my data in open formats and leave G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3n/auntestednone yet

My agent or backend can subscribe to order lifecycle events — created, updated, fulfilled, canceled — pushed programmatically C

Order events

developerOrder lifecycle — stories about order lifecycle in this arenaOrder lifecycle3n/auntestednone yet

Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture3n/auntestednone yet

My agent can discover payable services and APIs through a published directory or discovery index C

Service discovery

ai-native userAgent discovery — stories about agent discovery in this arenaAgent discovery2fullfree9/10T

Settle agent-initiated payments in stablecoins over documented rails C

Settlement rails

developerPayment credentials — stories about payment credentials in this arenaPayment credentials2full9/10T

At least two independent parties beyond the vendor implement the protocol or platform — it is an ecosystem, not a private integration C

Ecosystem adoption

developerProtocol openness — stories about protocol openness in this arenaProtocol openness2full8/10X

The fees for agent-originated transactions are published — I can price agentic channels without asking sales C

Fees transparency

merchantFees economics — stories about fees economics in this arenaFees economics2fullfree8/10C

Perform bulk operations across many items at once G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2partial7/10C

Read machine-readable offer data — price, availability, variants, checkout links — for any listed product or service C

Machine readable offers

developerAgent discovery — stories about agent discovery in this arenaAgent discovery2partialfree7/10T

Build against a versioned commerce protocol with a published schema and conformance or validation tooling C

Protocol conformance

developerAgent checkout — stories about agent checkout in this arenaAgent checkout2partialfree5/10T

Read the product's source under an open license G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2partial5/10T

Refunds on agent-placed orders can be initiated and tracked programmatically C

Refunds

developerRefunds disputes — stories about refunds disputes in this arenaRefunds disputes2partial3/10C

Set per-agent spend caps and usage limits and revoke an agent's payment authority instantly G

Spend controls

ai-native userTrust safety — stories about trust safety in this arenaTrust safety2partial3/10X

Buyers can complete purchases of my products inside chat and assistant surfaces (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and peers) C

Embedded surfaces

merchantAgent checkout — stories about agent checkout in this arenaAgent checkout2none0/10

Disputes and chargebacks on agent transactions can be handled via API — evidence submission, status, outcomes C

Disputes

developerRefunds disputes — stories about refunds disputes in this arenaRefunds disputes2none0/10

Rate-limit, allow, or deny specific agents and agent platforms accessing my catalog and checkout C

Traffic controls

merchantMerchant enablement — stories about merchant enablement in this arenaMerchant enablement2none0/10

The fraud, liability, and chargeback rules for agent-initiated transactions are documented so I know who bears the risk C

Liability

merchantTrust safety — stories about trust safety in this arenaTrust safety2none0/10

Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2n/auntestednone yet

Control data retention and deletion G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2n/auntestednone yet

My agent can query the status and tracking of an order it placed, after the purchase C

Post purchase status

ai-native userOrder lifecycle — stories about order lifecycle in this arenaOrder lifecycle2n/auntestednone yet

Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Orders are attributed to the originating agent and I can report on or filter transactions by agent C

Attribution analytics

merchantMerchant enablement — stories about merchant enablement in this arenaMerchant enablement2noneuntestednone yet

Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2n/auntestednone yet

Agent-originated payments settle through documented payout and reporting flows, reconcilable like any other channel C

Payouts

merchantFees economics — stories about fees economics in this arenaFees economics1partialfree5/10X

Version, review, and roll back my automations G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth1n/auntestednone yet

Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 34 stories with headroom

What would move Coinbase x402’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.

  1. Agent checkout — stories about agent checkout in this arenaMy agent can create and update a cart or order draft through a documented protocol call

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Missing: any documented cart/order object, create/update API or protocol verbs, and evidence of persisted order state across calls.

  2. Trust safety — stories about trust safety in this arenaAgents identify themselves verifiably — registered profiles, signatures, or trust tiers — so I can tell trusted agent traffic from anonymous bots

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    x402 verifies and screens the *payment* (signed payment proof, OFAC/KYT checks on wallet addresses) but has no mechanism for merchants to identify or tier *agents* themselves — no registered agent profiles, agent-level signatures/identity credentials, or trust tiers are described; the protocol is explicitly designed for signup-free, pseudonymous access ('No signups or approvals required'), the opposite of verifiable agent identity.

  3. Trust safety — stories about trust safety in this arenaSensitive agent spending requires my documented approval — a confirmation step, signed mandate, or per-purchase consent — before money moves

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    x402's own documentation frames the protocol as removing friction rather than adding human oversight — 'AI agent pays instantly with stablecoins, No signups or approvals required' (docs-17) — and the signing step in the handshake is the agent's wallet cryptographically authorizing payment (supp-1, comm-7), not a documented user-facing confirmation, mandate, or per-purchase consent screen.

  4. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productUse an official CLI

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    Missing: any mention of an x402 CLI, its commands, or install instructions.

  5. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productExplore an interactive API reference with runnable examples

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    The evidence pack shows extensive text documentation but no mention of an interactive API reference or runnable examples; a probe explicitly found no OpenAPI/Swagger spec at any candidate path (404s), indicating no interactive reference tooling is exposed.

  6. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productDownload a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    A direct probe for OpenAPI/swagger specs at all standard paths on the CDP docs site returned 404s, and no other evidence pack item points to a downloadable machine-readable API spec; the docs only offer markdown/llms.txt style documentation, not an OpenAPI equivalent.

  7. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productRely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    The evidence pack shows a 'v2' support table for the facilitator API but nowhere documents an API versioning scheme, backward-compatibility guarantees, or a deprecation policy for x402 endpoints/SDKs; no changelog, sunset timeline, or version-support-window language appears anywhere in the docs or probes.

  8. Trust safety — stories about trust safety in this arenaThe fraud, liability, and chargeback rules for agent-initiated transactions are documented so I know who bears the risk

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 20

    Evidence covers OFAC/KYT screening for sanctioned addresses and onchain settlement finality, but nowhere documents fraud liability allocation, chargeback rules, or who bears risk for disputed/unauthorized agent-initiated transactions.

Showing the top 8 of 34 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.

Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.

Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map7 surfaces · 29 covered stories

Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.

X402 docs28 stories

Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs

Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.

$curl -s https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources # the x402 Bazaar, keyless by designreproduced
$ curl -s https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources  # the x402 Bazaar, [redacted]less by design
{"items":[{"accepts":[{"amount":"3000","asset":"0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913","currency":"0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913","extra":{"credentialTypes":["authorization"],"name":"USD Coin","version":"2"},"maxAmountRequired":"3000","maxTimeoutSeconds":3600,"network":"eip155:8453
$curl -si https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/supported # the hosted facilitator, auth-gatedreproduced
$ curl -si https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/supported  # the hosted facilitator, auth-gated
HTTP/2 401

Unauthorized
$npm view x402 version # the protocol SDK, on the public registryreproduced
$ npm view x402 version  # the protocol SDK, on the public registry
x402 version: 1.2.0

Claims vs evidence — vendor claims reconciled against independent verdictsClaims vs evidence

9 of 13 testable claims verified · 0 contradictedintegrity 69/100

20 distinct capability claims found in Coinbase x402’s own claimed-docs/GitHub materials, reconciled against our judge’s independent verdicts.

9

Verified

4

Unverified

0

Contradicted

16

Undersold

Verified (13)
Unverified (5)
Undersold (16)
Claims outside our story set (4)

Real capability claims found in Coinbase x402’s own materials, but no story in this arena’s taxonomy covers them yet — that’s feedback on the taxonomy, not a mark against the product.

  • Sellers can receive payments at any wallet they control, including CDP custodial, Coinbase Business/Prime, or self-custody wallets

    source ↗
  • Built-in OFAC and Know-Your-Transaction screening automatically declines payments from sanctioned or high-risk addresses

    source ↗
  • Sellers can price with fixed, usage-based (up-to), or batch-settlement payment schemes

    source ↗
  • An AWS Payment Manager plus CDP connector gives Bedrock AgentCore agents access to x402-payable services

    source ↗
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Business model

free-tierusage-based

The protocol is open and free to implement; Coinbase's hosted CDP facilitator includes 1,000 onchain settlements per month free, then $0.001 per onchain transaction — payment verification is always free.

pricing ↗

Score trend

How this product’s scores have moved as evidence and verdicts are re-derived — a point per change, not per day.

PA Scoretracked since Sep 15 '26 — no movement recorded yet
Agent-readytracked since Sep 15 '26 — no movement recorded yet

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Recorded agent sessions — and a live MCP handshake where the vendor ships one.

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Data

⚿ auth1 auth-gated probe