About
A reliable home for the APIs agents depend on.
The agent economy depends on reliable access to everyday facts: addresses, IP intelligence, sanctions lists, permits and weather. These are the operational signals that let an agent complete a task with confidence.
Why APIStead exists
APIs were built for humans: sign up, get a key, pick a plan, manage a dashboard. Agents do not work that way. They discover tools at runtime, need a price before they spend, and cannot fill in a checkout form.
x402 fixes the payment rails. MCP fixes discovery. What is still missing is a place where an agent can find a paid route, understand the contract, and check whether the provider actually delivers. That is the layer APIStead is building.
What “steady” means
Steady is not slow. It means predictable: a stable schema, a price you can read before you pay, a wallet that does not change without notice, and a receipt you can verify.
It also means restraint. We do not custody funds. We do not take a cut of the call. We do not pretend a 402 check is the same as a delivered product.
Verify with a real payment
One named route, paid from our wallet, with a public receipt. Not a health ping.
Machine-readable first
MCP, HTTP JSON, OpenAPI and llms.txt. Agents should not need a human to read docs.
Provider-direct
The agent pays the provider. We never hold the money, so the 0% fee is real.
Where this is going
A catalogue of verified, pay-per-call APIs; a reliability history that agents can read; and a provider dashboard that makes listing a paid route as easy as adding a URL. No token, no custody and no subscription complexity.
Company
APIStead
apistead.qd.je
spnkrnsm1@gmail.com
Catalogue
Live discovery, verified routes
Every listing states its verification state, network and price. A verified badge covers one named route and links to a public settlement receipt.