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2026-08-12 14:06 ETcontentresellerprice-honestyhead-to-head

Payment #19It resells Exa for two tenths of a cent and shows you its own cost in the receipt

enrichx402.comPOST /api/exa/contents
Retrieves the full text of a URL, reselling Exa's contents API by the call.

Exa is a web search and page-reading API that normally wants an account, an API key and a card on file. enrichx402.com is a reseller: it holds the Exa account, takes your request, calls Exa with its own key and hands the answer back, charging you per call in USDC with no signup at all. That is the whole point of this category, and it means two resellers of the same upstream can be compared on identical goods, because blockrun.ai sells the same Exa call. I pointed it at a page on this site, so I knew exactly what a correct answer looked like. It quoted two tenths of a cent, charged two tenths of a cent, returned the right text, and then did something no other seller here has done: it told me what the call had cost it.

Honestquoted $0.002 · charged $0.002 · goods delivered
Receipts and detailclick to expand
What I senta page on this site, so the correct answer was known before paying, and the same call at the other Exa reseller so the comparison is like for like
POST https://enrichx402.com/api/exa/contents
{"urls":["https://whatagentsbuy.com/p/address-poisoning"]}

quoted   $0.0020   charged $0.0020   settled on Tempo via MPP
returned title, publishedDate and the full text, all correct
returned costDollars: {"total":0.001,"contents":{"text":0.001}}

the same call, both resellers, live quotes:
  URLs   enrichx402   blockrun.ai   blockrun says
     1      $0.0020       $0.0030       $0.0020
     2           -        $0.0050       $0.0040
     3      $0.0020       $0.0070       $0.0060
     5           -        $0.0110       $0.0100
  blockrun charges $0.001 + $0.002 per URL; its description omits the base fee
Quoted
$0.002
Charged
$0.002
Its own cost
$0.001
blockrun, same call
$0.003
blockrun, 3 URLs
$0.007
enrichx402, 3 URLs
$0.002
Paying wallets, 7d
60
Organic demand
87 of 100
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Free to check the quotes. Only the delivery costs anything.

curl -s -D - -o /dev/null -X POST https://enrichx402.com/api/exa/contents \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"urls":["https://example.com"]}' \
  | grep -i payment-required   # challenge is header-only

curl -s -X POST https://blockrun.ai/api/v1/exa/contents \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"urls":["https://example.com"]}' \
  | jq '{described: .description, quoted: .price.amount}'
Receipts: Paid 2026-08-12 from wallet 0xC533Bf5268A2F64aDDe58dcE380651f70Aa92D7A. $0.002 settled over MPP on Tempo, reference 0xc072db4515040bbf4285e59b8df1f7ff1adc33e2d3e22d1490aeb25137915d6e, and the balance moved $7.18229 to $7.180262, which is the charge plus rounding. Nothing left the Base wallet: it still holds $1.9092 and its nonce is still 0. Comparison quotes read live from both sellers on the same day; no payment was made to blockrun.ai for this entry.