Reach the publishersyour users want cited.
A growing share of mid-tier publishers — exactly the ones your users want cited — now block AI bots at the gateway. xpay✦ is how you reach them: pay-per-query access to 1,000+ publishers, with citation URLs, sub-second latency, and freshness baked in.
The publishers you want are blocking you.
A growing share of quality publishers now block AI bots at the gateway. Scraping harder doesn't fix it. Bilateral licensing doesn't scale. Common Crawl is months stale.
The publishers your users want cited are dark.
Most of the mid-tier publishers worth citing now block AI bots at the WAF. Your retrieval ranker can't see what your users actually want — so your answers cite weaker sources, or hallucinate.
Common Crawl is stale.
Your retrieval layer is months behind reality. Users ask about today's news, today's reviews, today's prices — and get yesterday's data.
Cloudflare 403s killing recall.
A growing share of top sites now block AI bots by default. Your answer quality drops every time recall does. Users notice. Churn rises.
xpay✦ is the legitimate way in.
Publishers in our network actively chose to be paid via xpay — including ones that block every other AI agent at the gateway. You pay what content's worth. You get the content. Everybody wins.
Reach publishers blocked everywhere else.
Skip 18 months of BD calls. xpay✦ unlocks 1,000+ publishers — including mid-tier sites that 403 every other AI agent at the gateway. Drop it in as a retrieval source and ship Tuesday.
Sub-second, freshness-tracked.
p95 latency under 800ms. Each article tagged with publish/update timestamps so your retrieval ranker knows what's fresh.
Citation URLs, license receipts.
Every query returns the canonical URL, publisher metadata, and a settlement receipt. Your lawyers and your users both get what they need.
Three lines. Ship Tuesday.
Native SDKs across the agent stack. Drop in xpay where you already retrieve.
import { withPaymentInterceptor } from 'x402-axios';
import axios from 'axios';
const client = withPaymentInterceptor(
axios.create({ baseURL: 'https://api.xpay.sh' }),
wallet
);
const { data } = await client.get('/search', {
params: { q: 'latest AI policy news', fresh: '24h' },
});
// data.results: [{ url, publisher, snippet, publishedAt, ... }]
// Auto-pays the publisher per result via x402.Live in five minutes.
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Get an API key
Sign up at app.xpay.sh, fund a wallet (USDC on Base), get your API key. New accounts ship with $50 in free credits.
02
Drop in the retriever
Three lines of code. Native SDKs for LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, Stagehand, Playwright. Or hit the REST API directly with x402 headers.
03
Get licensed content + receipts
Each query returns the document, publisher attribution, and a settlement receipt. Pay only for what you actually retrieve. Cap spend per project, per user, per domain.
Built for agents like these
AI answer engines
Perplexity, You.com, Phind-style productsNews-focused assistants
Real-time current-events Q&AVertical answer products
Finance, sports, travel domain assistantsStop scraping.Start accessing.
Pay-per-query access to 1,000+ publishers — including the mid-tier sites blocking every other AI agent. One API key. Receipts by default.
Self-serve · $50 free credits · No BD calls · No MSA requiredOr browse the publisher catalogAI Search Engines — FAQ
Common questions from agent builders evaluating xpay
Most of them. The ad-monetized, professionally-edited, traffic-validated mid-tier publishers — exactly the ones your users want cited — block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot at the WAF or robots.txt layer. They joined xpay specifically to be paid for AI access while keeping scrapers out.
Yes. Every result comes with a canonical URL, publisher name, and publish timestamp. You can render attribution exactly the way Perplexity does — except now it's a licensed, paid transaction with the publisher of record, not a scrape.
xpay queries publishers in real time via their MCP endpoints. Articles published an hour ago are queryable an hour ago. Each result includes publishedAt and updatedAt for your retrieval ranker. And you reach publishers Common Crawl misses entirely because they block CCBot.
Bilateral licensing means months of BD, seven-figure minimums, and one publisher per deal — covering only the headline brands. xpay covers the long-tail mid-tier publishers that actually drive answer quality. Use both: bilateral for the marquee, xpay for everything else.
Pay-per-query. Pricing varies by publisher and content type ($0.001 to $0.50 per query). You set per-domain spend caps. New accounts get $50 in free credits.
Other use cases
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