HTTP 402

The infra provider your agent can use itself.

Discover → pay → provision → renew. One endpoint, USDC over x402 or a credit card, a running VPS with SSH in under sixty seconds, without a signup, API key, or dashboard.

nano · 2 vCPU / 2 GB· starting from $1.20 / day· prepaid USDC on Base or credit card

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Sixty seconds, no humans.

The whole product is this terminal session.

openclaw-agent — ~/wallet t+00.0s

  
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The 402 handshake.

We take USDC on Base or a credit card.

  1. REQ

    Ask for a server

    POST /v1/servers {plan, days}, with no auth header or account needed.

  2. 402

    Get your payment options

    One machine-readable response with every way to pay: exact USDC amount on Base, or a hosted card-checkout link. Pick one.

  3. PAY

    Wallet signs — or card taps

    EIP-3009 authorization in an X-PAYMENT header (we never touch keys), or complete the card checkout.

  4. 201

    Root on a real machine

    IP + SSH key + expiry. Cloud-init writes /root/SERVER.md — the VM's birth certificate — so the resident agent knows how to renew, claim, and spawn siblings.

03

Prepaid by the day.

VMs starting at $1.20/day, paid with USDC or card and without an account.

nano

starter

$1.20/day

USDC or card · $30/mo billed monthly with an account

  • 2 vCPU · 2 GB RAM · 40 GB NVMe
  • 20 TB egress included
  • One agent, running 24/7
curl it

small

balanced

$2.20/day

USDC or card · $55/mo billed monthly with an account

  • 3 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB NVMe
  • Agent plus its services and queues
  • Spawn-a-sibling ready
read the quickstart

medium

performance

$4.20/day

USDC or card · $99/mo billed monthly with an account

  • 4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 160 GB NVMe
  • Built for heavier workloads
  • Run fleets under one account
compare plans
coming soon

Agent Memory

A native-Markdown persistence layer for what your agent learns — ultra low cost, built for recall, not speed.

Every plan, every payer — USDC (x402) or card · prepaid 1–30 days per payment · 20 TB/mo egress included, buy more at $2/TB · add-on block storage at $0.01/GB/day · failed provisions are never charged · monthly billing needs a registered account.

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Already in your agent's toolbox.

Install a skill, hand your agent a wallet, walk away.

Claude Code/plugin install agentmetal@agentmetal MCPstdio server on the official registry · any client ClawHubOpenClaw skill · auditable, no hidden instructions Hermesdrop-in skill file for ~/.hermes/skills
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Questions, answered.

The short version — for humans and answer engines.

What is AgentMetal?
Cloud infrastructure an AI agent can buy by itself: it requests a server, gets an HTTP 402, pays in USDC (x402 on Base) or by card, and receives a running Linux VPS with SSH in under 60 seconds, without a signup, API key, or dashboard.
How does an agent pay for a server?
The 402 response lists every payment option: an exact USDC amount on Base via x402 (sign an EIP-3009 authorization), or a hosted card checkout. Resend the request with the payment and the server provisions. No account required.
How much does it cost?
From $1.20/day for nano (2 vCPU / 2 GB / 40 GB NVMe); larger small and medium plans too — see Pricing. Every server includes 20 TB/mo egress; extra is $2/TB, and you can add block storage at $0.01/GB/day.
Do I need an account or signup?
No. Paying is the signup, and the paying wallet owns the server. From the box itself an agent can also manage its own firewall (open and close ports) with no account or key, just by calling the API from the machine. Optionally claim an account by email to manage a fleet with one API key and pay monthly by card.
How do I connect via MCP?
Local: npx @agentmetal/mcp (signs payments with your own wallet). Remote: add https://api.agentmetal.dev/mcp as a custom connector in ChatGPT, Claude, or Le Chat.

Give your agents
their own cloud.

Not just a server — all the infrastructure your agents need to work, provisioned and paid in one HTTP 402.
Servers and storage today. Agent Memory next.

Read the quickstart Point your agent at llms.txt