How do I delegate a card to an AI agent?

Enroll a card once, set a mandate (budget, duration, and what the agent may buy), and hand your agent its credential. It then spends within those limits with any agent-enabled merchant, from any framework, and you can revoke it instantly.

How do I accept payments from AI agents?

Connect the PSP you already use, set your pricing (per call, per session, credits, or subscription), and add one payment handshake to your API or MCP server. Agents then pay you autonomously while you keep your existing settlement and payout.

What is Nevermined Pay?

Nevermined Pay lets AI agents make real purchases with a user's existing credit or debit card, within strict spending rules the user defines. Think of it as a power-of-attorney for payments: scoped, time-limited, and instantly revocable.

Is this a virtual card or a prepaid account?

Neither. It's your actual card. Nevermined tokenizes it at enrollment so the agent never sees the card number - only a scoped virtual card credential that encodes identity, spending limits, and merchant restrictions.

x402 is an open HTTP standard for agent payments. When an agent hits a paywall, the server responds with 402 Payment Required. The agent attaches a payment credential in the next request header and the purchase completes in milliseconds. No checkout, no redirect.

Why do AI payments need new infrastructure?

AI agents fire thousands of micro-tasks and are OpEx heavy; you need per-request metering and real-time settlement. Seat-based pricing can't keep up.

Usage-based vs. outcome-based pricing - what's the difference?

Usage-based bills per token, call, or compute cycle. Outcome-based charges only when your agent delivers a result (lead booked, bug fixed, etc.). We support either model, or a hybrid, out of the box.

Can't I just use Stripe?

Stripe handles checkout; it doesn't track sub-cent calls. Nevermined adds that layer, while still letting you settle via any payment method incl. Stripe or USDC. Stripe was built for monthly subscriptions and shopping carts. We're built for millions of micro-transactions between autonomous agents. Full comparison: Stripe vs Nevermined

Do merchants need to integrate with Nevermined?

No. Agents pay on real card rails (Visa, Mastercard). If a merchant accepts cards today, they already accept agent payments. No new SDK, no new settlement flow.

What is agentic commerce?

Agents autonomously buy, sell, or rent services from each other. Nevermined's IDs, metering, and payments make those machine-to-machine deals possible.

How do I revoke an agent's spending ability?

One API call or one click in the dashboard. The agent loses payment capability instantly. No grace period, no cached tokens.

Which agent frameworks are supported?

Any framework that can make an HTTP request: OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, CrewAI, Strands, MCP tool servers, and custom agents. We provide TypeScript and Python SDKs, a CLI, and an MCP server.

Agentic Payments Infrastructure

Agents pay.
Merchants get paid.
Autonomously.

Q: What is agentic payments?

Agentic payments is infrastructure that lets AI agents pay and get paid autonomously: an agent spends within a budget a human delegates to it, and a merchant meters and charges agents per call, session, or outcome. Nevermined provides both sides - spend controls for agents and metered acceptance for merchants - with every transaction attributed and recorded.

One platform for AI commerce. Delegate spending to your agents, meter and monetize your services.

Give your agent a card and a budget. It spends inside the mandate you set.

or read the docs ↗Enterprise? White-label & embedded →

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Mastercard

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Gartner®COOL
VENDOR™2026

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For Agents · Spend

Give your agent a card and a budget.

Enroll a card once and set a mandate. Your agent spends within budget with any agent-enabled merchant, every transaction attributed and instantly revocable.

Active mandate · example

Revocable

research-agent-01VIRTUAL

•••• •••• •••• 4291

exp 09/27

Monthly budget$142 / $500

Per txn

$25 max

Merchants

Any agent-enabled

Revoke

1 click

exa.aibuy-key$7✓

you.combuy-key$5✓

exa credits612/1,000 · $0.007/call

Card Delegation

A real card, a budget, and rules your agent can't break.

Pay Widgets

Embed enrollment so your users fund their agents.

Visa Virtual Cards

Agents transacting on real Visa rails, live today.

Agent Catalog

160+ curated AI services your agent can discover.

For Merchants · Earn

Turn agent traffic into revenue.

Price your API, service, or tool per call or per outcome, and agents pay for it on their own. A five-cent call costs more in card fees than it earns; prepaid plans turn it into revenue. You keep the payment provider and payout you already have.

Live today: Exa sells search to agents for $7 a key, paid autonomously on a delegated card. See how →

Agents paying you

example flow

01agent-4f2a requests GET /v1/search

02your price: $0.05 per call

03agent pays, budget checked first

04200 OK · settled to your PSP

3,412

Paid calls today

$171

Settled today

Yours

PSP & payout

Accept Agent Payments

One handshake to charge autonomous buyers.

Card Capture Widgets

Take card payments inside your own checkout.

OpenClaw

Monetize agents living in chat channels.

Use Cases

API providers, AI crawlers, builder platforms.

How it works

Both sides, three steps.

For AgentsFull flow →

Enroll a card

Tokenized in a PCI-compliant vault, never exposed to the agent

Set a mandate

Budget, per-call caps, expiry, one-click revoke

Your agent spends

Any agent-enabled merchant, fully attributed

For MerchantsFull flow →

Connect your PSP

Stripe or Braintree via OAuth, payouts unchanged

Set your pricing

Per call, per outcome, or subscription

Agents pay you

Settled before delivery, on your existing rails

One platform. Both sides.

Every agent transaction, metered and attributed.

Agent spend capsRevenue analyticsReal-time alerts

Explore the app View Demo

Nevermined dashboard showing spend tracking and revenue analytics

The business model for AI

Metered pricing is how agents earn revenue.

But it doesn't work without metering, access control, entitlements, and settlement working together.

Live metering

example · last 24h

1.2M

Requests

+12%

$4.8K

Revenue

+8%

342

Active agents

+23%

agent-7x2ftool.call$0.003now

agent-k9d1api.request$0.122s ago

agent-3m8adata.query$0.085s ago

1.2M

requests/day

Metering

Every API call, MCP tool, and A2A request tracked.

active policies

Access Control

Per-tool, per-session, per-budget permissions.

99.8%

enforced

Entitlements

Programmable policies gate what agents consume.

<50ms

avg latency

Settlement

Fiat, crypto, and credits in one layer.

Pricing

Three lanes. No surprises.

Start free, pay only when agents transact. Merchants pay on settled volume. Buyers pay the listed price on a Nevermined payment plan, or a routing fee anywhere else.

See full pricing →

Buyers pay

extra on a Nevermined plan

Buyers pay

flat, on external services

Merchants pay

1-2%

on settled volume

Enterprise

Embedding agentic payments under your own brand?

White-label and embedded infrastructure for platforms that already monetize digital services. Your brand, your rails, your users.

White-label onboardingMulti-tenant organizationsYour PSP and payout

Book a call Learn more →

Quick Answers, Zero Fluff

Frequently
asked
questions

Agentic payments is infrastructure that lets AI agents pay and get paid autonomously: an agent spends within a budget a human delegates to it, and a merchant meters and charges agents per call, session, or outcome. Nevermined provides both sides - spend controls for agents and metered acceptance for merchants - with every transaction attributed and recorded.

Start spending or start earning

Agents spend. Merchants earn. Both run on one platform.

Delegate a card →Accept agent payments →

Agents pay.Merchants get paid.Autonomously.

Give your agent a card and a budget.

Card Delegation→

Pay Widgets→

Visa Virtual Cards→

Agent Catalog↗

Turn agent traffic into revenue.

Accept Agent Payments→

Card Capture Widgets→

OpenClaw→

Use Cases→

Both sides, three steps.

Enroll a card

Set a mandate

Your agent spends

Connect your PSP

Set your pricing

Agents pay you

Every agent transaction, metered and attributed.

Metered pricing is how agents earn revenue.

Metering

Access Control

Entitlements

Settlement

Three lanes. No surprises.

Embedding agentic payments under your own brand?

Frequently asked questions

What is agentic payments?

How do I delegate a card to an AI agent?

How do I accept payments from AI agents?

What is Nevermined Pay?

Is this a virtual card or a prepaid account?

What is x402?

Why do AI payments need new infrastructure?

Usage-based vs. outcome-based pricing - what's the difference?

Can't I just use Stripe?

Do merchants need to integrate with Nevermined?

What is agentic commerce?

How do I revoke an agent's spending ability?

Which agent frameworks are supported?

Start spending or start earning

Frequently asked questions

What is agentic payments?

How do I delegate a card to an AI agent?

How do I accept payments from AI agents?

What is Nevermined Pay?

Is this a virtual card or a prepaid account?

What is x402?

Why do AI payments need new infrastructure?

Usage-based vs. outcome-based pricing - what's the difference?

Can't I just use Stripe?

Do merchants need to integrate with Nevermined?

What is agentic commerce?

How do I revoke an agent's spending ability?

Which agent frameworks are supported?

Agents pay.
Merchants get paid.
Autonomously.

Card Delegation

Pay Widgets

Visa Virtual Cards

Agent Catalog

Accept Agent Payments

Card Capture Widgets

OpenClaw

Use Cases

Frequently
asked
questions

Frequently
asked
questions