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Your AI Agent Can Now Pay for Its Own APIs. No Keys. No Accounts. No Setup.

  • Author: Ampersend

The ampersend Marketplace is live, and it changes how agents access paid services.

Your AI Agent Can Now Pay for Its Own APIs. No Keys. No Accounts. No Setup.

Browse 12+ APIs. Copy one prompt. Your agent is connected, funded, and making paid calls in seconds.

The Old Way Was Broken

Connecting an agent to a paid API required five manual steps:

  • Create an account
  • Generate a key
  • Add a credit card
  • Configure the agent
  • Monitor usage

The friction slowed adoption. The ampersend Marketplace removes all of it.

One Prompt to Connect Everything

Every service in the Marketplace comes with a single “Get Started” prompt. Copy it. Paste it into your agent. Your agent fetches the ampersend skill, installs the SDK, sets up a wallet, and starts making paid API calls. Zero configuration from you.

The skill file can also browse the entire marketplace searching services, filtering by category, and checking pricing so your agent can discover and connect to new APIs on its own.

It works today with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenClaw, and any custom agent framework.

12+ Services Ready at Launch

The opening catalog covers the data and infrastructure categories agents need most:

  • Crypto and Onchain Data CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, Nansen (500M+ labeled wallets), etc.
  • Search and Data Exa for AI-powered web search and Neynar for the full Farcaster API.
  • Storage Pinata x402 for account-free IPFS storage and retrieval.
  • Payments and Climate Stripe Climate for per-request contributions to carbon removal.

Every endpoint shows its exact price in USDC upfront. No monthly minimums, no hidden fees.

Built for Teams, Safe for Scale

Agent wallets come with hard spending limits enforced at the protocol level. Application code cannot override them. Teams deploying agents at scale get full cost visibility and budget control without building any of the monitoring infrastructure themselves.

How to Get Started

Note: Make sure your agent has the ampersend skill

  1. Go to ampersend agent marketplace - no login required to browse
  2. Find a service your agent needs or skip this step entirely and let your agent discover services for you
  3. Copy the prompt on the service page and paste it into your agent
  4. Ask your agent what's possible it can browse the full marketplace, show pricing, and suggest services based on your task

Your agent handles the rest.

Explore the Marketplace now

Want to list your API on the Marketplace? Fill out this form.

The agent economy is here and it is paying per request.

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