These are observations, not accusations. A band of LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH describes how much of what we check we were able to confirm — it is not a judgement about the operator of an endpoint. Every signal, its weight and its rationale are published on the methodology page, and any operator can claim an endpoint, correct a fact or opt out.

What does this x402 endpoint charge?

1.000000 USDC per request

https://cheaptokens.ai/api/buy

LOW 96/100

Observed 2026-08-15T14:32:24Z · 176 ms · HTTP 402 · v1 methodology

WIRE_FORMS_DISAGREEBoth wire forms were served and they describe different terms.

Endpoint

What we observed about the endpoint
URL	https://cheaptokens.ai/api/buy
Canonical	https://cheaptokens.ai/api/buy
Endpoint id	3e78742bf2a3742049be8f79c15d48fc
HTTP status	402
Latency	176 ms
Redirects	0
TLS	handshake okThe negotiated TLS version is not exposed to a Worker.
Wire form	both the v2 header and a v1 body
Bytes read	4930
Strict decoder	accepteddecodePaymentRequired, imported from tx402 — the same code the SDK runs before it pays.

Payment

accepted by the decoder

These terms were accepted by the strict decoder tx402 uses before it pays.

The payment terms this endpoint asks for
Price	1.000000 USDC
Amount (atomic)	1000000
Scheme	exact
Network	eip155:8453 in manifestRecognized means present in the tx402 signed release manifest. Nothing more is claimed.
Asset	USDC 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913 in manifestRecognized means present in the tx402 signed release manifest. Nothing more is claimed.
Pay to	0x213c8d7434E2ae7AA1C392767c5120778D413215
Pay to declared dynamic	nox402 v2 has no on-the-wire declaration of a dynamic payTo, so this is usually unobservable.
Authorization window	300s
Resource	https://cheaptokens.ai/api/buy
MIME type	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.
Facilitator	not observed

Risk

LOW 96/100 · v1 · static_only

A band describes how much of what we check we were able to confirm. It is not a judgement about the operator of an endpoint.

Result: pass 25 The challenge decodes under the strict x402 decoder tx402 uses before paying. challenge_decodes
Result: pass 15 The challenge describes the endpoint that served it. resource_origin_match
Result: pass 12 The amount is a canonical atomic integer. amount_canonical
Result: pass 12 The recipient is a well-formed address for the declared network. pay_to_wellformed
Result: pass 8 The network is in the tx402 signed release manifest. network_recognized
Result: pass 8 The asset is in the tx402 signed release manifest for this network. asset_recognized
Result: skip — The challenge named no facilitator. facilitator_known
Result: pass 6 The payment scheme is one tx402 can route. scheme_known
Result: pass 5 The endpoint was reached over a valid TLS connection. tls_ok
Result: warn 4 The authorization window is outside the maximum tx402 will sign for. timeout_sane
Result: pass 3 No redirect downgraded the connection. redirect_scheme_downgrade
Result: pass 3 The endpoint serves the x402 v2 header form. wire_form
Result: pass 2 The amount is within the range we see for x402 endpoints. amount_magnitude_band

Security

1 to look at

A check that could not run reports skip, and a skip is never counted as a pass.

Result: pass wire_form_detected Served as both.
Result: pass base64_strict The strict decoder accepted the header's base64 framing.
Result: pass json_wellformed
Result: pass x402_version_known Declared x402Version 2.
Result: pass accepts_present The challenge offers one way to pay.
Result: pass size_within_limit Read 4930 bytes, within the probe's cap.
Result: pass network_caip2_wellformed network: eip155:8453
Result: pass network_recognized Recognized means present in the tx402 signed release manifest.
Result: pass asset_recognized Recognized means present in the tx402 signed release manifest.
Result: pass amount_atomic_canonical
Result: pass amount_positive
Result: pass pay_to_wellformed
Result: warn max_timeout_sane Authorization window 300s exceeds the tx402 maximum of 60s.
Result: pass resource_origin_match
Result: pass scheme_known
Result: skip facilitator_known The challenge named no facilitator.
Result: pass mime_type_wellformed mimeType: application/json
Result: pass extra_wellformed `extra` carries 2 field(s), preserved verbatim.
Result: skip amount_within_observed_range needs our data No prior observations of this endpoint.
Result: skip recipient_matches_observed needs our data No prior observations of this endpoint.

Observed

What the corpus knows about this endpoint
First seen	2026-08-15T04:00:12Z
Last seen	2026-08-15T14:32:24Z
Scans recorded	2
Availability (30d)	not measured yet
Latency p50	not measured yet

Recorded changes to this endpoint's terms
2026-08-15T04:30:49Z	first_seen: challenge_hash — → 85e637d005076053978183dde025c5387cec96b340ab9b2ae1c5915c0e06ebcd

Test with tx402 →

Pre-filled with this endpoint's real terms. Your signer stays in your process — this service never sees a key, never asks for one, and cannot build a payment.

CLI — dry run, nothing is signed

npx tx402 call "https://cheaptokens.ai/api/buy" \
  --max-spend "1.000000 USDC" \
  --network "eip155:8453" \
  --dry-run

# --dry-run stops after the policy decision. Nothing is signed and nothing is spent.

TypeScript

import { createTx402Client } from "tx402";
// Your signer stays in your process. tools.tx402.io never sees a key,
// never asks for one, and cannot build a payment.
import { signers } from "./signers.js";

const tx402 = createTx402Client({
  signers,
  policy: {
    maxPerRequest: "1.000000 USDC",
    allowedDomains: ["cheaptokens.ai"],
    allowedNetworks: ["eip155:8453"],
  },
});

// Policy and budget are committed before the signer is reachable, so a
// refusal here is a payment that was never authorized.
const response = await tx402.fetch("https://cheaptokens.ai/api/buy");

Python

from tx402 import Tx402Client, Policy

# Your signer stays in your process. tools.tx402.io never sees a key,
# never asks for one, and cannot build a payment.
tx402 = Tx402Client(
    evm_signer=evm,
    policy=Policy(
        max_per_request="1.000000 USDC",
        allowed_domains=["cheaptokens.ai"],
        allowed_networks=["eip155:8453"],
    ),
)

# Policy and budget are committed before the signer is reachable, so a
# refusal here is a payment that was never authorized.
response = tx402.fetch("https://cheaptokens.ai/api/buy")

This report, as JSON or Markdown

curl -sS 'https://tools.tx402.io/api/v1/inspect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcheaptokens.ai%2Fapi%2Fbuy'

# The same result as Markdown, for a terminal or an agent:
curl -sS -H 'Accept: text/markdown' 'https://tools.tx402.io/inspect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcheaptokens.ai%2Fapi%2Fbuy'

The challenge, as served

Public data: the endpoint serves this to anyone who asks. It is shown exactly as it arrived, truncated to the documented cap.

raw challenge

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SHA-256 of the canonicalized challenge: 85e637d005076053978183dde025c5387cec96b340ab9b2ae1c5915c0e06ebcd

Raw signals

The exact input the scoring function was given. A signal we could not determine has observed: false and contributes nothing to the score — it is never counted as a failure.

signals

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  {
    "id": "probe_ok",
    "value": true,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "challenge_served",
    "value": true,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "challenge_decodes",
    "value": true,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "wire_form",
    "value": "both",
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "x402_version",
    "value": 2,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "tls_ok",
    "value": true,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "tls_protocol",
    "value": null,
    "observed": false,
    "detail": "The negotiated TLS version is not exposed to the probe."
  },
  {
    "id": "redirect_count",
    "value": 0,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "redirect_scheme_downgrade",
    "value": false,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": "Cross-scheme redirects are refused."
  },
  {
    "id": "resource_origin_match",
    "value": true,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "network_recognized",
    "value": true,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": "Recognized means present in the tx402 signed release manifest."
  },
  {
    "id": "asset_recognized",
    "value": true,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": "Recognized means present in the tx402 signed release manifest."
  },
  {
    "id": "facilitator_known",
    "value": null,
    "observed": false,
    "detail": "The challenge named no facilitator."
  },
  {
    "id": "amount_canonical",
    "value": true,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "amount_magnitude_band",
    "value": "medium",
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "pay_to_wellformed",
    "value": true,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "pay_to_declared_dynamic",
    "value": false,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "timeout_sane",
    "value": false,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": "Authorization window 300s exceeds the tx402 maximum of 60s."
  },
  {
    "id": "scheme_known",
    "value": true,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "requirement_count",
    "value": 1,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "challenge_size_bytes",
    "value": 4930,
    "observed": true,
    "detail": null
  },
  {
    "id": "first_seen_age_days",
    "value": null,
    "observed": false,
    "detail": "No history yet."
  },
  {
    "id": "scan_count",
    "value": null,
    "observed": false,
    "detail": "No history yet."
  },
  {
    "id": "availability_30d",
    "value": null,
    "observed": false,
    "detail": "No history yet."
  },
  {
    "id": "latency_p50_ms",
    "value": null,
    "observed": false,
    "detail": "No history yet."
  },
  {
    "id": "price_changes_90d",
    "value": null,
    "observed": false,
    "detail": "No history yet."
  },
  {
    "id": "recipient_changes_90d",
    "value": null,
    "observed": false,
    "detail": "No history yet."
  },
  {
    "id": "recipient_unstable_undeclared",
    "value": null,
    "observed": false,
    "detail": "No history yet."
  },
  {
    "id": "terms_changed_within_24h",
    "value": null,
    "observed": false,
    "detail": "No history yet."
  }
]

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