x402vps

x402vps rents short-lived Docker containers to AI agents rather than humans. An agent requests a container through an HTTP endpoint, receives a payment challenge under the HTTP 402 protocol, signs a USDC transfer on Base mainnet, and gets back a running container it can control through a REST API or the provided JavaScript SDK. There is no signup, dashboard, or API key: the agent's wallet address is its identity. Four tiers are priced from $0.01 to $0.08 per hour, scaling vCPU, RAM, and bandwidth (the cheapest tier has no internet access; higher tiers add scraping and API-call bandwidth). Ten prebuilt images are available, including Alpine, Python, Node.js, Chrome, and Ubuntu, and containers offer a writable filesystem so agents can install their own packages. The service blocks SMTP, SSH, cryptocurrency mining, and reverse-shell activity at the infrastructure level. The target user is a developer or platform building autonomous agents that need to spin up temporary, disposable compute for scraping, data processing, or browser automation without human-in-the-loop billing. Because payment and provisioning both happen on-chain and per-request, the model assumes agents (or their operators) already hold and can spend USDC, so it is not built for casual, wallet-free signup.