Brave just shipped x402. Here are both 402s, measured byte by byte.

November 13, 2026 · measured at 12:20Z

On November 12, 2026 Brave announced that its Search API now accepts agentic payments over x402 : no account, no API key, $0.005 per request, USDC on Base, settled through Brave's own facilitator. Eight paths — web, news, images, videos, LLM context, and three local-search routes — behind search.agent.s.brave.app . The announcement helpfully recommends purl , the Stripe-developed CLI wallet.

This is the first time a major search vendor has put a pay-per-request 402 in front of its own index. It is also the first time we can hold our 402 next to someone else's and count bytes, instead of arguing about shapes in the abstract.…