Agent payments weekly
2026-W44: what agents paid for, from public counts
Real demand: 153,435 payments from 4,377 buyers in 30 days. Catalog sweeps were 2% of the payments to the 322 Bazaar sellers counted.
Week of 2026-10-26 · snapshot 2026-10-26 · method v1.0 · Open until next Monday's snapshot: the chain count fills in on Tuesday.
Real demand on Base
| 30 days | Count |
|---|---|
| Payments into the sellers counted | 157,392 |
| From wallets | 4,387 |
| Catalog sweeps' share of payments | 2% |
| Sellers' own addresses' share | 0.5% |
| Real demand: payments | 153,435 |
| Real demand: buyers | 4,377 |
| Sellers counted | 322 |
| Sellers with any real demand | 313 |
Read from the chain for the 500 busiest sellers on the week's snapshot: 482 take payments on Base and 322 could be counted (an address another seller shares, or an exchange's, can't be). 30 days to 2026-10-28.
The market
| Bazaar index | This week | Week before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sellers | 2,715 | – | – |
| Paid endpoints listed | 74,247 | – | – |
| Listings with 3+ payers in 30 days | 8,660 | – | – |
| Listings with a Fair Offer block | 0 | – | – |
99.7% of listings take payment on Base. 2,609 listings show repeat use (calls at least twice their payers) and 117 look sweep-heavy (20 or more payers, about one call each), by the index's own counts.
New listings' 4-week survival starts once there are five weeks of snapshots.
Price index
USDC per call, across listings with 3+ payers in 30 days and a USDC price. 0 listings cut their price this week and 0 raised it.
| Category | Listings | p10 | Median | p90 | Median vs week before |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 8,630 | $0.001 | $0.005 | $0.02 | – |
| On-chain data | 2,129 | $0.001 | $0.005 | $0.02 | – |
| Other | 1,609 | $0.001 | $0.005 | $0.0151 | – |
| Agent tools and MCP | 1,074 | $0.001 | $0.005 | $0.01 | – |
| Web search | 720 | $0.002 | $0.009 | $0.0382 | – |
| Stocks and market data | 612 | $0.001 | $0.005 | $0.02 | – |
| AI model access | 508 | $0.001 | $0.005 | $0.02 | – |
| People and company enrichment | 417 | $0.002 | $0.005 | $0.02 | – |
| Image, audio and video | 391 | $0.001 | $0.006 | $0.05 | – |
| Page reading and scraping | 381 | $0.001 | $0.004 | $0.02 | – |
| Weather and location | 321 | $0.001 | $0.003 | $0.01 | – |
| PDF and OCR | 297 | $0.001 | $0.004 | $0.015 | – |
| News | 171 | $0.001 | $0.005 | $0.04 | – |
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BibTeX
@misc{agoranome_weekly_2026_w44,
author = {{Agoranome}},
title = {{Agent payments weekly, 2026-W44}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/2026-W44},
note = {Method v1.0. CC BY 4.0}
}Embed the chart
<a href="https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/2026-W44"><img src="https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/chart.svg" alt="x402 Bazaar sellers each week, Source: Agoranome Weekly"></a>
Method
Method v1.0: every definition, threshold and change. A seller who thinks a count is wrong writes to research@agoranome.com; corrections are logged with dates on the method page.
Agoranome sells tools to x402 sellers and buyers. Its own hosts and wallets are left out of every count, and no figure here is its revenue.
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