# Circle Gateway Nanopayments vs TermiX AACP (slim)

> Circle Gateway Nanopayments scores 67.6 (B) to TermiX AACP's 46.2 (D) for stablecoin payments. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Circle Gateway Nanopayments scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against TermiX AACP's 46.2 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do stablecoin payments.

- Circle Gateway Nanopayments: B 67.6, rank #249 of 961 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/circle-gateway-nanopayments.min.md
- TermiX AACP: D 46.2, rank #861 of 961 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/termix.min.md
- Circle Gateway Nanopayments, good for Sellers charging fractions of a cent per API call and agents making many small payments from one prefunded balance on EVM chains. Ahead on Reliability, 56 against 28; Schema & documentation, 80 against 54; Security & auth, 64 against 55; Payments & pricing, 80 against 55; Maintenance & community, 77 against 39; Transparency & trust, 72 against 4. Also No key needed to call it.
- TermiX AACP, good for Agents that buy or sell work from other agents for USDC or USDT, with escrow, staking and an evaluator panel for disputes, on BNB Chain, Base or Robinhood Chain. Also No incidents deducted, where Circle Gateway Nanopayments loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Circle Gateway Nanopayments | TermiX AACP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 56 | 28 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 54 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 80 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 39 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 4 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Circle Gateway Nanopayments | TermiX AACP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Circle | TermiX |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://gateway-api.circle.com` | `https://platform-backend.prod.termix.live` |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| x402 | payer tooling only | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under the Circle Developer Terms. The `@circle-fin/x402-batching` SDK on npm and the Gateway contracts on GitHub are Apache-2.0 | No terms of service found. The public skills repository is MIT, the whitepaper is CC BY-SA 4.0, and the skill package downloaded from termix.ai carries no licence file. |
| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-16 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 17k npm/wk | none |