X402vps

X402vps

X402vps provides pay-per-hour Docker containers designed for autonomous AI agents — no signup or API key required; your wallet (USDC on Base mainnet) is your identity. It offers prebuilt images, internet-enabled node/core tiers for scraping and browser automation, and a JSON API for lifecycle and exec operations.

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X402vps

X402vps is a lightweight infrastructure service that provisions Docker containers on demand for AI agents and automated workloads. Users pay hourly in USDC on Base mainnet; there is no signup, API key, or centralized account — the wallet acts as identity and payment is settled via an EIP-3009 style flow. The platform exposes a JSON HTTP API to create containers, run commands (exec), extend leases, and destroy containers, with prebuilt images for common agent tasks and internet-enabled tiers for scraping, API calls, and browser automation.

The service offers multiple size tiers (atom, cell, node, core) with increasing CPU, RAM, disk, and bandwidth. Some tiers provide outbound Internet access and writable root filesystems for installing packages, while security controls block certain ports and capabilities. Billing is pay-per-hour and bandwidth overage is charged per GB.

Provision Docker containers on demand. Pay with USDC on Base. No signup, no API key. Your wallet is your identity. Internet access on node/core plans.

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Key Features

Pay-per-hour billing with wallet identity

No signup or API key — USDC on Base mainnet is used; the API issues a payment challenge which the agent signs and returns to provision a container.

Programmatic JSON API

REST endpoints for service info, health, list, status, create, exec, extend, and destroy (examples shown with curl and JavaScript).

Prebuilt images and zero cold start

Ten preinstalled images (alpine, atom, cell, python, node, chrome, datascience, ubuntu, rust, sqlite, etc.) with minimum-tier requirements to avoid long pulls.

Internet-enabled tiers

Cell, Node, and Core plans allow outbound HTTP/HTTPS for scraping and API calls; Atom is isolated (no internet).

Writable root filesystem

On internet-enabled node/core plans you can install packages (pip, npm, apk) inside the container.

Bandwidth quotas and overage

Each plan has a bandwidth quota tracked per container; overage is billed at $0.01/GB beyond quota.

Security controls

Blocked ports (SMTP, SSH outbound tunneling, mining pools), dropped Linux capabilities, per-container connection rate limiting, and disabled suspicious utilities to reduce abuse.

Custom Docker images

You may pass any Docker image name to run custom images (pulled from Docker Hub), though custom pulls are slower than preinstalled images.

Pricing

Free Tier Available

Exec (POST /api/exec) and some GET API endpoints (GET /api, GET /health, GET /api/list, GET /api/status/:id) are free; container creation and extensions are paid.

Atom

$0.01/hr
  • CPU 0.1 vCPU
  • RAM 256 MB
  • Disk 2 GB
  • Internet: No

Cell

$0.02/hr
  • CPU 0.25 vCPU
  • RAM 512 MB
  • Disk 5 GB
  • Internet: Yes

Node

$0.04/hr
  • CPU 0.5 vCPU
  • RAM 1 GB
  • Disk 10 GB
  • Internet: Yes

Core

$0.08/hr
  • CPU 1.0 vCPU
  • RAM 2 GB
  • Disk 20 GB
  • Internet: Yes

Use Cases

Autonomous AI agents

Host and run autonomous agent workloads that programmatically provision containers, pay via wallet, execute tasks, and tear down resources.

Web scraping and data collection

Node and core tiers provide outbound HTTP/HTTPS and higher bandwidth allotments for scraping and crawling workflows.

API automation and integrations

Run short-lived containers to call APIs, transform data, or act as ephemeral workers invoked via the JSON API.

Browser automation and scraping

Core tier includes prebuilt Chromium and Playwright images suitable for browser-based scraping and end-to-end automation.

Ad-hoc compute for data tasks

Use prebuilt datascience and python images on higher tiers for short, pay-as-you-go data processing or model-related tasks.

Integrations

Base mainnet / USDC

Payments are settled in USDC on the Base mainnet (EVM network referenced in examples).

Docker Hub / Custom Docker images

Supports passing arbitrary Docker image names to pull images from Docker Hub for custom workloads.

@x402 client libraries

JavaScript client and EVM payment registration examples are provided (e.g., @x402/core/client and @x402/evm/exact/client).

Benefits

No signup or API key — wallet-based identity simplifies onboarding for automated agents.
Fine-grained hourly billing allows cost control and no subscriptions.
Prebuilt images reduce cold-start latency for common agent workflows.
Writable containers and internet access (on select tiers) let agents install dependencies and perform web/API interactions.
Programmatic API and client examples make integration straightforward for developers and agents.

Limitations

Atom tier is isolated and does not have outbound Internet access.
Internet access is limited to outbound HTTP/HTTPS ports (80, 443, 8080, 8443); other ports are blocked.
Certain services and operations are explicitly blocked (SMTP, outbound SSH tunneling, mining pools, IRC & C2 channels, reverse shells).
Bandwidth is quota-based per plan and overages are charged at $0.01/GB.
Per-container connection rate limiting and dropped Linux capabilities may restrict some advanced networking or privileged operations.

Frequently Asked Questions

No verified FAQs are available.

Getting Started

  1. 1 Step 1: Choose a plan and create a container via POST /api/create with plan and leaseHours (internet is available on cell/node/core).
  2. 2 Step 2: Respond to the payment challenge by signing the EIP-3009 transfer proof with your wallet and retry the create request with the proof header.
  3. 3 Step 3: Use POST /api/exec to run commands inside the container (exec is free); when finished, destroy the container with POST /api/destroy.

Support

docs

API reference and guides available on the site (AGENTS.MD, LLMS.TXT and inline API reference).

health endpoint

Server health and uptime available via GET /health.

API

Available: Yes
Documentation:

API endpoints and examples are documented on the site (GET /api, GET /health, GET /api/list, GET /api/status/:id, POST /api/create, POST /api/exec, POST /api/extend, POST /api/destroy) and in AGENTS.MD/LLMS.TXT.

Rate Limits:

Bandwidth quotas per plan with overage at $0.01/GB; per-container connection rate limiting is enforced. No other numeric rate-limit values published on the page.

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