Reach the publishersyour scraper can't.
A growing share of mid-tier publishers now block your scraper at the gateway — exactly the publishers worth retrieving from. xpay✦ is the drop-in retriever that gets in: pay-per-query access to 1,000+ publishers across 16 verticals. Skip 18 months of partnerships. Skip the firecrawl-and-pray.
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 best publishers won't let you in.
The ad-monetized, traffic-validated, brand-name mid-tier publishers — the ones your customers actually trust — block AI bots at the gateway. No proxy farm fixes that. No fingerprint trick fixes that.
Scraping breaks every Tuesday.
Even where you can scrape, Cloudflare changes a fingerprint, your firecrawl pipeline 403s, your RAG eval drops. You burn an engineer's week debugging anti-bot detection.
Common Crawl is months stale.
Your customers ask about last week's product launch. Your RAG returns last quarter's rumor. Your retrieval evals look fine, but users churn.
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 where scrapers can't.
xpay's publisher network actively chose to be paid by AI agents. You access content your firecrawl pipeline literally cannot fetch — including the mid-tier publishers your customers trust.
Three-line drop-in retriever.
Native SDKs for LangChain, LlamaIndex, and CrewAI. Replace your existing web search tool with xpay in under five minutes.
Pay-per-query, no minimums.
Sub-cent queries on most content. Spend $5 to evaluate, $50 to launch, scale from there. No BD call, no MSA, no procurement.
Three lines. Ship Tuesday.
Native SDKs across the agent stack. Drop in xpay where you already retrieve.
from langchain.tools import XpayRetriever
from x402 import Wallet
retriever = XpayRetriever(
wallet=Wallet.from_env(),
max_cost_per_query=0.10,
)
# Drop into any chain
docs = retriever.get_relevant_documents("AI agent regulation 2026")
# docs are licensed, fresh, with publisher attributionLive in five minutes.
01
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
RAG SaaS platforms
Vectara, Ragie, LlamaIndex CloudInternal enterprise RAG
Built on LangChain or CrewAIVertical AI startups
YC AI batch, indie RAG productsStop 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 catalogRAG Builders — FAQ
Common questions from agent builders evaluating xpay
Most of the mid-tier ad-monetized publishers in our network actively block AI bots elsewhere — Cloudflare AI Audit, robots.txt disallow, WAF rules. They joined xpay specifically because they wanted to be paid for AI access. You reach them through xpay; you cannot reach them through firecrawl, scrapy, or playwright.
Those are scraping infrastructure — useful for the open web. They don't help when the publisher blocks AI bots, and the legal status of what they fetch stays gray. xpay specifically reaches the blocked publishers, with explicit licensing. Often complementary: scrape the open web, use xpay for the blocked mid-tier.
Per-query pricing ranges $0.001-$0.50 depending on publisher and content. For most RAG workloads it's cheaper than maintaining a scraping stack (proxies, browser fleets, anti-bot retries) — and you reach publishers no scraper can.
Yes. xpay is the retrieval source, not the vector store. Index the documents you retrieve into Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector — whatever you already use.
New accounts get $50 in API credits. Enough to evaluate, build a prototype, and see real retrieval quality from publishers your scraper can't reach.
Other use cases
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