Machine paymentsPrivate preview
Enable machine-to-machine payments with Stripe.
Use machine payments to let your agents pay for resources programmatically (for example, for API calls, data, or services). As a business, you can use Stripe to accept machine payments in crypto directly into your Stripe balance.
| For sellers | If you have growing traffic and interest from agents, you can enable pay-per-use business models as low as 0.01 USDC. If your product is primarily an API, you can sell individual requests to agents. You can also restrict access to data or content with a paywall. |
| For agents | As an alternative to setting up an account and getting an API key, your agent can interact with services on demand and pay per invocation. Your agents only needs access to a crypto wallet. |
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Features
Machine payments integrate with your existing Stripe integration.
| Stripe payments | Payments land directly in your Stripe balance. Metrics, reporting, refunds, and multi-currency payouts work the same as any other payment in Stripe. |
| Microtransactions | Individual charges can be as low as 0.01 USDC. Machine payments support USDC on Base. |
| Private | Stripe uses a unique deposit address for each payment, which reduces on-chain linkage of your processing volume. |
| Gasless | Stripe doesn’t charge you for gas or other network fees. |
Integration guides
Learn how to apply payment middleware to your HTTP endpoints using common payment protocols to accept machine payments.