Nevermined
Also known as: Nevermined AI, Nevermined payments
Agent payments infrastructure treating agents as both buyers and sellers, with per agent wallets and DIDs, cryptographically signed append only metering, and usage, outcome and value based pricing in one system.
Nevermined builds payment infrastructure for agents, and its distinguishing framing is that agents both spend and earn. Agents pay for the services they consume and get paid for the work they do, while builders and merchants get the controls to manage spend, meter usage and monetise whatever agents consume on the other side.
The platform combines four things most competitors split: delegated spending with rules, real time usage metering, a pricing engine, and settlement. Each agent receives a unique wallet plus a decentralised identifier with cryptographic proof of ownership. Every usage record is cryptographically signed and pushed to an append only log, which gives audit ready traceability rather than a reconciliation report generated after the fact.
Two things stand out commercially. The pricing engine supports usage based, outcome based and value based pricing in one system, which matters because outcome pricing is difficult to operate without trustworthy metering underneath. And the company publishes its rate: a one percent transaction fee with a free tier for limited volume, which is unusual in a category where almost nothing is published.
It is deliberately protocol agnostic, supporting x402, MCP, A2A and AP2 natively so that builders are not rebuilding every time the standards shift. Valory, which builds the Olas agent marketplace, is cited as cutting deployment of its payments and billing infrastructure from six weeks to six hours.
The honest caveat is sourcing. Almost all available material on Nevermined is published by Nevermined, including extensive comparisons of its rivals, so the product description here rests on first party claims that have not been independently corroborated.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://nevermined.ai
Category
Agent infrastructure
Subcategory
Agent payments and monetisation infrastructure
Funding status
Private. Funding detail not retrieved in this pass. Named production reference: Valory, builders of the Olas agent marketplace.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Protocol first by design, with native support for x402, Model Context Protocol, Google A2A and AP2 so builders avoid lock in as standards move. Settles across both fiat card rails and stablecoin, with credits based settlement available for low value usage. TypeScript and Python SDKs, and a reported five minute path from zero to a working payment integration.
In practice
An agent marketplace stands up payments and billing in hours rather than weeks instead of building metering, pricing and settlement itself.
A specialist agent charges other agents for the work it performs, settling automatically rather than through a contract and invoice.
A builder caps what an agent may spend and meters exactly what it consumed, with every usage record signed so the bill can survive a dispute.
Sources & related URLs
Agentic Index coverage score
7.0 / 14 capabilities · 50%
| Integrations & Tool CallingPROTOCOL FIRST BY DESIGN with native support for x402, Model Context Protocol, Google A2A and AP2, explicitly to reduce lock in as standards evolve, plus settlement across both fiat card rails and stablecoin, credits based settlement for low value usage, and TypeScript and Python SDKs. Vendor claim, not independently corroborated. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Full |
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| Workflow OrchestrationCoordinates delegated spending, access control, metering, pricing and settlement as one connected flow rather than separate services, but this is payment and monetisation orchestration rather than agent workflow orchestration - Nevermined does not run or sequence agent work. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Partial |
| Knowledge Grounding & RAGHolds identity, entitlement and usage records rather than knowledge, and grounds no agent reasoning. Architecturally expected for payments infrastructure rather than a gap. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Unable to verify |
| Human Oversight & GuardrailsDELEGATED SPENDING WITHIN DEFINED RULES is the core control: agents transact inside limits a human sets, with access control and spend management as first class platform functions rather than settings. A spending mandate is a genuine guardrail - it bounds what an autonomous agent can commit the organisation to financially. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Full |
| Security, Identity & GovernanceIdentity and integrity are the product: each agent receives a UNIQUE WALLET PLUS A DECENTRALISED IDENTIFIER WITH CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROOF OF OWNERSHIP, and every usage record is cryptographically signed. VERIFICATION FLAG: Nevermined own corporate attestations were not retrieved, and no independent corroboration of these claims was found. Confirm before citing. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Full |
| Observability & AuditabilityTAMPER PROOF METERING: every usage record is CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED and pushed to an APPEND ONLY LOG, giving audit ready traceability rather than a reconciliation produced after the fact. That is materially stronger than per transaction attribution and is the precondition that makes outcome based pricing operable at all. Third instance in this index of cryptographic audit integrity, after drata tamper evident records and bernstein HMAC signed audit chains. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Full |
| Memory & State PersistenceThe append only usage log and per agent wallet balances persist durably, but that is ledger and identity state rather than agent memory, and no conversation or task context is held. Graded the same way as skyfire for comparability. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Unable to verify |
| Deployment & Data ResidencyHosted platform reached through SDKs with a reported five minute integration path, and settlement available across both fiat and crypto rails which gives real flexibility at the money layer, but no self hosting option or regional data residency detail was retrieved. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Partial |
| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & PacksShips a complete out of the box combination of spending, earning, identity and metering rather than components to assemble, with a reported five minute path to a working integration, but there is no library of prebuilt agents or templates and none would be expected for payments infrastructure. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Partial |
| Triggers & Channel CoverageMetering and settlement fire in real time on agent consumption, so coverage of the usage path is complete, but there is no event, schedule or channel surface beyond the transaction itself. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Partial |
| Model Flexibility & RoutingNevermined runs no models and makes no model selection; it meters and settles payment for services consumed elsewhere. Architecturally expected rather than a gap. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Unable to verify |
| APIs, SDKs & MCP ExtensibilityTypeScript and Python SDKs plus NATIVE MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL SUPPORT alongside x402, A2A and AP2, with protocol agnosticism stated as a design goal so builders can launch without rebuilding as standards shift. Extensibility across competing standards is the product posture. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Full |
| Testing, Debugging & OptimizationNo agent evaluation, testing, sandbox or simulation capability was documented. The signed usage log supports settling disputes after the fact rather than testing agent behaviour before it acts. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Unable to verify |
| Browser & Computer UseOperates on API calls, metering and settlement; no browser control, page navigation or computer use capability exists or would be expected. Nevermined product pages 2026-08-08 | Unable to verify |
The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Unable to verify against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded
Pricing
Free tier for limited volume; 1 percent transaction fee thereafter
percentage of transaction value
Included quota
A free tier for limited volume, with the limit not quantified in retrieved material.
What is public
The 1 percent transaction fee and the existence of a free tier are published. The free tier limit is not.
Billing mechanics
One percent of transaction value, applied to payments flowing through the platform, with a free tier for limited volume. Settlement runs across fiat card rails, credits and stablecoin.
Cost watchouts
**A PERCENTAGE TAKE RATE BEHAVES VERY DIFFERENTLY FROM A FIXED FEE AT AGENT VOLUMES, and the direction is not obvious. It scales cleanly at sub cent per call pricing where fixed card fees would be ruinous - that is the whole reason this category exists. But at high transaction VALUE it compounds against the gross rather than the margin, so a service reselling expensive model calls pays proportionally more than one reselling cheap ones for identical operational effort.** Model it against expected transaction value distribution, not just call count. The free tier volume limit was not quantified. Upstream funding fees on card or bank rails sit outside the 1 percent.
Variable cost rationale
Graded medium rather than high because the rate is PUBLISHED and the unit is legible - a buyer can forecast cost directly from expected transaction value, which is more than any other vendor in this pocket allows. The offsetting risks are that a percentage take compounds against gross transaction value rather than margin, the free tier threshold is unquantified, and it is unclear whether the rate holds across card, credits and stablecoin settlement.
Additional watchouts
Model against transaction VALUE distribution rather than call count, since a percentage take rate is cheap on micropayments and expensive on high value ones. Confirm whether the rate differs across card, credits and stablecoin settlement.
Overage / add-ons
Not specified beyond the transition from free tier to the 1 percent fee.
Sales call required
No, self serve available
Free / trial
Free tier available for limited volume
Lowest paid plan
1 percent transaction fee
Commercial notes
**PUBLISHING A RATE AT ALL IS THE NOTABLE COMMERCIAL FACT HERE. Across the whole agent payments pocket almost nothing is public: skyfire published no retrievable rate, and the card network protocols are bundled into existing merchant agreements. Use the 1 percent as the CATEGORY BENCHMARK when grading the rest of this pocket.** Named production reference: Valory, builders of the Olas agent marketplace, reported cutting payments and billing deployment from six weeks to six hours - a vendor published customer quote, but one naming a real counterparty with a specific before and after.
Key ambiguities
The free tier volume threshold, and whether the 1 percent applies uniformly across fiat card rails, credits based settlement and stablecoin, since the underlying cost to Nevermined differs materially across those three.
Missing data
The free tier volume threshold, and whether the rate varies by settlement rail.
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Alternatives to Nevermined
The closest documented capability profiles to Nevermined among agent infrastructure platforms tracked by Agentic Index, ordered by similarity on the same 14 point evidence the rankings use. No vendor pays for placement.
- Skyfire6.5 / 14A lighter documented profile than Nevermined
- Inth6.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Nevermined
- OpenBox AI6.5 / 14Adds documented Testing, Debugging & Optimization
- Temporal Cortex6.5 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Deployment & Data Residency
- Dome Systems8.0 / 14Adds documented Memory & State Persistence and Model Flexibility & Routing
- Stripe8.0 / 14Adds documented Knowledge Grounding & RAG
Similarity is computed from each vendor's Agentic Index coverage score evidence, axis by axis, not from the totals. How this evidence is graded