Facilitators

Who relays and gas-sponsors x402 payments, derived on-chain. A facilitator submits the settlement transaction and pays its gas, which is what makes an x402 payment free of native tokens for the agent making it.

First-partyBase mainnetGasless for payers

Roundhouse facilitator

Point your paywall or your client at ours and your payers need USDC only — no ETH, no top-up step. It serves Base mainnet, which the public x402.org facilitator does not. What it changes on top of that is what we can tell you afterwards.

https://x402.roundhouseai.io

Txs relayed
47
Settled (182d)
$0.19
SettlesUSDCUSDConBaseBase
  • See which endpoint earned it. Settlements we relay carry the resource that was paid for. Read off the chain alone a payment is a bare USDC transfer, so a wallet serving forty endpoints is one line — through ours, each endpoint gets its own revenue, price and traffic.
  • Know your customers, not their addresses. Every payer is resolved to an identity where one exists, and the endpoint they bought is attached to it — so repeat buyers, what each of them spends and which service brought them back are all answerable.
  • Be named across the index. Your service appears as itself: a named route on the flow graph instead of “route unknown”, and a merchant page listing your endpoints rather than an unattributed wallet.
  • Failures stay visible. Every verify and settle attempt is captured, successful or not, so a payment that never landed on-chain is still diagnosable. No chain indexer can do that — there is nothing on the chain to find.

Settlements relayed per day, by facilitator

Last 90 days
  • Coinbase CDP
  • PayAI
  • Daydreams(too small to plot)
  • Heurist(too small to plot)
  • FluxA
  • Virtuals Protocol(too small to plot)

3 of these 6 operators settle too little to register against the busiest one, so they do not appear in the plot above. Their figures are in the table.

OperatorSettlementsBuyers
Coinbase CDP24.58M30.20K
PayAI108.85K6,322
Daydreams2,029159
Heurist3,02577
FluxA1.01M7,466
Virtuals Protocol1,474264

The 6 operators that have relayed the most transactions, one colour each, per UTC day. The busiest relays several orders of magnitude more per day than the quietest, so the smallest operators cannot register against it on a shared scale and the legend says which those are — read them from the table, where each row carries that operator's own window totals across its whole relayer pool. There is no network-wide total anywhere here, in the table or on the hover, because site-wide aggregates live on /stats. A quiet stretch here is usually unresolved attribution, not a quiet network: a settlement joins an operator's series only once the pass that reads the relayer off the transaction has reached it, and that runs newest-first — so older settlements sit under “route unresolved” in the route breakdown until it catches up.

Every other facilitator

30 named operators
FacilitatorWalletsTxs relayedShare (est)PayersLast seen
Named operators
Coinbase CDP3284,883,84770.8%743h ago
PayAI517,396,1328.0%12d ago
Daydreams213,026,1932d ago
Heurist88,167,3641d ago
FluxA62,010,74111.4%191d ago
Virtuals Protocol11,997,2611d ago
x402.rs6995,0302d ago
OpenX4022576,5072d ago
AnySpend1524,5800.1%12d ago
CodeNut4478,0631d ago
Questflow10474,7671d ago
AurraCloud3235,5062d ago
Thirdweb1135,5263d ago
RelAI190,4440.6%52d ago
Meridian184,5970.2%23d ago
Dexter183,2953d ago
Polymer155,3760.1%12d ago
Primer136,5890.3%41d ago
Cascade133,5541.1%21d ago
Ultravioleta DAO125,4202d ago
Mogami123,7272d ago
Corbits119,7781d ago
OpenFacilitator118,8881d ago
xEcho112,2322d ago
x402 Jobs17,9821d ago

Attribution comes from the open facilitator registry, which names 31 of the operators we have observed relaying settlements; the rest are relayer wallets seen on-chain with no operator behind them yet. Txs relayed is the wallet pool's on-chain transaction count (a fact); payers and share come from sampled 30-day discovery windows (estimates).

Hand this page to an agent

Copy the prompt and paste it into Claude, an MCP client or your own agent — it will compare the facilitators that could settle your payments over the free read API. No key, no account.

GET api.roundhouseai.io/v0/facilitators

Open skill.md
Show the prompt
Using Roundhouse, compare the x402 facilitators: who relays the most settlements, which
chains they serve, and which one I should use to start paying endpoints.

curl -s 'https://api.roundhouseai.io/v0/facilitators'

Then show me how to settle a payment through one:
https://roundhouseai.io/docs/guides/use-the-roundhouse-facilitator

The /v0 API needs an API key (`authorization: Bearer rh_live_…`) on everything except
/v0/unified* and /v0/endpoints. Mint a personal key for $0.01 at GET https://api.roundhouseai.io/v0/test/x402,
or use an organization key from https://roundhouseai.io/dashboard/team.

If you do not have Roundhouse tools or skills installed, read
https://roundhouseai.io/skill.md first — it is the whole procedure.