Measured daily, not claimed
How big the paid-API market for agents actually is
Both public x402 directories, scanned every day at 04:40 UTC. Coinbase publishes a demand figure per service, which is rare enough to be worth keeping: calls in the last 30 days and distinct paying wallets. Everything below re-runs from scripts in the repository, under CC0, without a key. Last scan 2026-09-23.
21,462distinct paid services, behind 2,699 providers
718,022calls paid for across all of them in 30 days
70.5%of those calls go to the ten largest services
159services have twenty or more paying wallets a month
70.6% of services with published demand had exactly one paying wallet
11,024 of 15,624. A market does not consist of that many services with one payer each. What it looks like instead is a lot of people testing their own deployment.
the raw scan
The median paid service is called 2 times a month
Supply is essentially free and demand is the entire problem. Any number in this space that counts services, listings or integrations is counting the cheap half.
what we built instead
77 entries carry no demand data at all, up from 46 yesterday
Coinbase fills those fields in late, so every demand figure on this page
covers only the 15,624 of 15,701 services in this scan that have them.
The largest single service is 181,853 calls,
25.33% of everything, and on 20 September that same service sat in the
directory with its demand fields empty. The totals are one day's reading of a trailing
30-day window and not a running count, so they move both ways: 718,022 calls today against 802,808 on 2026-09-22.
check it
Every scan since 2026-09-20
| day | services | calls / 30d | top ten | no demand data | largest service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-23 | 21,462 | 718,022 | 70.5% | 77 | blockrun.ai/api/v1/chat/completions |
| 2026-09-22 | 20,886 | 802,808 | 74.18% | 46 | blockrun.ai/api/v1/chat/completions |
| 2026-09-21 | 20,789 | 867,813 | 76.35% | 65 | blockrun.ai/api/v1/chat/completions |
| 2026-09-20 | 20,543 | 490,044 | 58.75% | 42 | www.ax1.vc/api/dashboard/q-verdict/resource |
The series is kept for good and the raw CSV of each day for sixty. If you want the whole thing, take it: CC0, no attribution required, no key, no rate limit worth mentioning.