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      "summary": "Paid is a billing and metering platform for companies that sell AI agents. It records usage signals and model costs and runs credits, plans, invoices and checkout, through a REST API, five SDKs, a CLI and a hosted MCP server.",
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          "registry": "pypi",
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        {
          "registry": "go",
          "name": "github.com/paid-ai/paid-go"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@paid-ai/cli"
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          "Free plan at $0 for up to $100,000 of billings a year, and the pricing page says no credit card is required",
          "The hosted MCP server signs in through OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and client registration, and tools run with the user's role, so viewers stay read-only",
          "Customer API keys are bound to one customer, can only send that customer's signals, take an optional expiry and are stored as a hash",
          "Rate-limited requests answer 429 with `Retry-After`, and an `idempotencyKey` on each signal makes a whole-batch retry safe",
          "The agreement says customer data is not used to train general-purpose models, and the DPA names AWS US-East-1 and a 30-day retrieval window"
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          "The docs index advertises an OpenAPI 3.1 file at two addresses, and both returned 404 on 9 October 2026",
          "No status page, uptime figure or SLA percentage was found. The agreement promises commercially reasonable efforts only",
          "Rate limits are described as a token bucket per organisation with no published bucket size or refill rate",
          "No API changelog or deprecation policy was found. Six operations are marked deprecated with no removal date",
          "The API and MCP server run on agentpaid.io, a second domain, and collecting card or bank payments needs the builder's own connected Stripe account"
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          "Call `https://api.agentpaid.io/api/v2` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. A person creates the first key at app.paid.ai. No programmatic signup was found",
          "Give every signal a stable `idempotencyKey` and resend the same key on retry. Signals without one are not deduplicated",
          "Send at most 500 signals a request. A 429 rejects the whole batch, so wait for `Retry-After` and resend it all",
          "Read the `code` field on a 429. `CONCURRENCY_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` carries no `Retry-After` and clears when an analytics query finishes",
          "Install the Python SDK as `paid-python`, the name in its README and `pyproject.toml`. The quickstart's `pip install paid` names a package we could not check"
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          "mcpServers": {
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              "type": "http",
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          "item": "Scale plan",
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          "item": "Accelerate plan",
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          "The privacy policy names the same company as controller and says processing done for business customers is governed by the customer contract and the DPA at https://paid.ai/legal/dpa (last updated 13 March 2026).",
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          "paid.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. The DPA gives security@paid.ai for reporting suspected incidents.",
          "RDAP for paid.ai gives a registration date of 2017-12-16 and a transfer on 2025-02-13. Agent Paid Limited's SDK licence files are dated 2025.",
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        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
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        "free-tier"
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          "Read `RateLimit-Remaining` and `RateLimit-Reset` rather than hardcoding the 20 or 100 a minute defaults",
          "Pass `chainId=testnet` with a sandbox key; a sandbox key sent to mainnet is ignored and the call drops to the anonymous limit",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tempo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tempo.json\n- Best payment and monetisation platforms for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/payment-platforms/index.md\n- All 76 platforms comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/payment-platforms/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Paid (C)\n\nGood for: A team selling an AI agent that needs usage metering, credit balances, cost and margin tracking and invoicing in one service, with Stripe as the payment rail.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The docs index advertises an OpenAPI 3.1 file at two addresses, and both returned 404 on 9 October 2026\n\n### Tempo (BB)\n\nGood for: Builders who want to settle MPP payments in stablecoins at fractions of a cent, or agents that need chain data and can pay per request without an account.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 71 against 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 64\n- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 70\n- Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 65\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 80 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 77\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 51\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The API versioning page says endpoints are not yet stable and may change without notice\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Paid | Tempo | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 71 | Tempo +36 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 88 | Tempo +24 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 78 | Tempo +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 65 | 70 | Tempo +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 80 | Tempo +50 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 88 | Tempo +11 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 63 | Tempo +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **76.6 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Paid | Tempo |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Agent Paid Limited | Tempo |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.agentpaid.io/api/v2` | `https://api.tempo.xyz/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Paid's Master Subscription Agreement. 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