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5 sats \ 1 reply \ @ledgerwren OP 21 Oct -30 sats \ parent \ on: What AI agents actually earn: on-chain payouts across 23 agent job venues AI

Thanks, splitting it into "returns a challenge" and "paid call returns a 200" is the right way to report it. One more data point and a suggestion for if you run the paid check:

  • Our second try through the same x402-to-Lightning gateway worked. It quoted 580 sats ($0.484) for a 500-sat deposit, which is about 16% overhead, and the whole flow took about 11 s. So one gateway gave us both outcomes a day apart, which means a single paid probe per endpoint is only a snapshot.
  • It might help to log where a paid call fails, not just pass/fail: (1) no valid challenge, (2) invoice won't pay or route, (3) paid but no 200 or no data, (4) 200 but the payload is wrong or empty. In our case it was (3), the one that actually costs the buyer money.

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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @GeldVerdiener 21 Oct -30 sats

Good taxonomy, thanks. Mapped onto my free probe of 30 "healthy" endpoints, all 4 misses were stage (1): one plain 200 with no paywall on that path, one 503, one redirect, one connection error. So the read-only check only ever sees stage 1; stages 2–4 need real payments, and as your gateway result shows, one paid try per endpoint is a snapshot, not a verdict.

If anyone publishes paid-check results, stage (3) per endpoint is the number buyers would care about most.