Nevermined
Payments infrastructure for AI agents: delegated cards and capped budgets for agents that buy, per request payment plans for agents and tools that sell, a Router and Catalog for external services, and one payment ledger.
Nevermined is payments infrastructure for AI agents, built so agents can both pay and get paid. On the buying side, a person enrolls a card once (Visa, Stripe or Braintree rails, PCI tokenized) and delegates a budget: a scoped, revocable authorization that caps how much an agent can spend, how many transactions it can make and when the authority expires.
With it an agent can buy services listed in Nevermined's Catalog, or pay any x402 or MPP service through the Router from one budget, and every payment lands in a ledger that can be queried, exported and reconciled across protocols. On the selling side, builders put payment plans (credits, time based or dynamic pricing) in front of their agents, MCP tools, APIs and static assets, charged per request over x402, with fiat or stablecoin settlement.
Organizations add team workspaces with Admin and Member roles, groups with budgets, stablecoin treasury wallets, customer records, revenue and usage analytics, an activity stream and webhooks. Nevermined states SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and PCI SAQ-D certification, with reports through its Trust Center, and ships TypeScript and Python SDKs, an API, a hosted Catalog MCP and a docs MCP server. It charges 1 percent of settled volume on stablecoin rails and 2 percent on card rails, with a free tier and organization plans at $250 and $500 a month.
Nevermined runs no agent workflows, memory or models of its own; it is the payment and access layer around them.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://nevermined.ai
Category
Agent infrastructure
Subcategory
Agent payments and monetization infrastructure
Funding status
Not stated on Nevermined's own pages.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Agents pay through delegated cards on Visa, Stripe or Braintree rails, credits, or stablecoins, buy external x402 and MPP services through the Router and the Catalog (also as a hosted Catalog MCP), and sellers protect MCP servers, A2A agents, APIs and static assets with payment plans. TypeScript and Python SDKs, a protocol API, an Organizations API, OAuth 2.1 and device flow, embeddable widgets and outbound webhooks.
In practice
A team enrolls a card, delegates a $500 monthly budget capped at $25 per call to its research agent, and revokes it in one click when the project ends
An API provider puts an x402 paywall in front of its endpoint and charges agents per request, settled in stablecoins
A finance lead exports every payment the company's agents made across protocols from the ledger for month end reconciliation
Sources & related URLs
Related / legacy domains
Agentic Index coverage score
4.5 / 14 capabilities · 32%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
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Agents pay for and call outside services. The Router lets an agent pay any x402 or MPP service from one budget without that service integrating Nevermined, the Catalog lists external AI services an agent can discover and buy (also through a hosted Catalog MCP), and delegated cards on Visa, Stripe or Braintree rails buy access such as Exa API keys. Payment integrations for MCP servers, Google A2A and AP2 protect the customer's own endpoints. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txt (Router, Catalog, Card Delegation, MCP, A2A) and nevermined.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-25 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Not documented |
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No workflow model. Nevermined meters, charges and settles for work agents do elsewhere. Build Outcomes takes an outcome and a budget and proposes the Catalog services an agent could chain, with prompts to run, but the chaining is done by the customer's agent, not executed by Nevermined. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txt (Build Outcomes, Core Concepts)read 2026-09-25 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Not documented |
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No retrieval structure over the customer's knowledge. Nevermined holds plans, entitlements, delegations and payment records; the Catalog is a directory of other vendors' services. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txtread 2026-09-25 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Partial |
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Enforced spend constraints, approved up front. Delegations are scoped spending authorizations that cap how much an agent can charge, how many transactions it can make and when the authority expires, and they are revocable in one click; the Router enforces guardrails and refuses payments outside them; groups carry budgets; connecting a web assistant means a person approves one spending cap. No review of each payment before it commits is documented. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txt (Delegations, Router guardrails, Groups and Budgets, Catalog from your web assistant) and nevermined.airead 2026-09-25 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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Organizations turn an account into a team workspace with Admin and Member roles, groups with budgets and shared payment methods, organization owned agents, plans and API keys, an admin API key, and OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and device flow for agents. The Certifications page names SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and PCI SAQ-D, with reports through the Trust Center (trustcenter.nevermined.ai), and the homepage and pricing page carry the same badges. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txt (Certifications, Workspaces and Members, Groups and Budgets, Authorization Code + PKCE, Device Flow)read 2026-09-25 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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A record of what each agent paid for, inspectable after the fact. The payment ledger queries, exports and reconciles every payment agents make across protocols in one place; every transaction is attributed to the agent and mandate; Cost Observability tracks incoming requests, usage and revenue per agent; the Payment Libraries add monitoring to the customer's agents; and organizations get an activity feed, a live WebSocket stream and outbound webhooks. For an agent whose actions are purchases, that is the agent's action record rather than a revenue report. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txt (Payment ledger, Cost Observability, Observability and Monitoring, Activity and Events)read 2026-09-25 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Not documented |
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No memory layer. Plan credits, delegations, wallet balances and the payment ledger persist, but they are the application's billing records, not state an agent reads as context. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txtread 2026-09-25 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Not documented |
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No region, customer environment or selection surface is documented. Fiat and stablecoin settlement rails are payment choices, and the white label Enterprise offer is branding, not deployment. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txt and nevermined.ai (Enterprise)read 2026-09-25 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Not documented |
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No prebuilt agents of Nevermined's own. The Catalog curates other vendors' AI services an agent can buy, and the Agents Guide and Build Outcomes give prompts, not agents. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txt (Catalog, Agents Guide, Build Outcomes)read 2026-09-25 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Not documented |
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Caller invoked. Payments and metering happen when a buyer or agent calls a paid endpoint; organization webhooks and the event stream go outward to report member, plan, customer and subscription events and do not start agent work. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txt (Activity and Events, x402)read 2026-09-25 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Not documented |
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No model choice. Nevermined runs no models for the customer; model services bought through the Router or Catalog are other vendors' offerings, not a routing surface Nevermined provides. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txtread 2026-09-25 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Full |
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Documented SDKs and APIs for Nevermined's own platform. TypeScript and Python Payments SDKs with quick starts, a protocol API reference (register agent and plan, add or remove plans, get agent), an Organizations API driven by an admin API key, an API error model, OAuth 2.1 and device flow for agents, a hosted Catalog MCP that discovers and pays for services, and a docs MCP server. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txt (Quick Starts, API reference, Programmatic and Agentic Access, Catalog MCP, Docs MCP)read 2026-09-25 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Not documented |
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No evaluation surface. The Add Payments guide ends with a test that the paywall charges correctly, which tests the customer's integration, and Catalog listings pass a health probe, which checks that a service responds; neither evaluates agent behavior. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txt (Add Payments to Your Agent, Publish to the Catalog)read 2026-09-25 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Not documented |
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No browser or computer control. Nevermined works through API calls, payment protocols and embeddable checkout widgets; the widgets are the product appearing in a page, not an agent operating one. SourceNevermined, nevermined.ai/docs llms.txt (Embed Nevermined Widgets)read 2026-09-25 |
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The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented 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
Recent platform changes
Claude, ChatGPT and LangSmith Fleet can now connect to Nevermined's hosted Catalog MCP with one server link and one consent screen that sets a spending cap and an expiry. The assistant can then find and pay for services per call from that budget, with no API key, and disconnecting it revokes the grant.
Bears on: Human approval / guardrails
View sourcePricing
Free; Premium $250/month plus 1-2% of settled volume
percentage of transaction value
Included quota
A free tier for limited volume, with the limit not quantified in retrieved material.
What is public
Plan prices and limits, the merchant and buyer take rates by rail, and pass through processing costs.
Billing mechanics
Take rate on settled volume (1% stablecoin, 2% card) deducted at settlement, plus optional monthly organization plans.
Cost watchouts
The 1 to 2 percent fee applies to every settled payment, card processing passes through at cost on top, and buyers routing to external services pay 2 percent on their total.
Variable cost rationale
Fees scale with every settled payment at 1 to 2 percent, plus processing at cost; organization plans are flat on top.
Additional watchouts
Model cost against the distribution of transaction value rather than call count, since a percentage take rate is cheap on micropayments and expensive on high value ones. Ask the vendor what rate applies to credits, since the published rates cover stablecoin and card rails.
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 personal account: up to 20 agents and 10 payment plans, fiat and crypto, x402, MCP and SDK integrations
Lowest paid plan
Premium, $250/month
Commercial notes
Nevermined publishes its take rates by rail and its plan prices. 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
Volume pricing below the published take rate is by conversation; the published take rate is 1 percent on stablecoin rails and 2 percent on card rails.
Missing data
The free tier volume threshold, the rate that applies to credits, and the terms of volume pricing below the published take rate.
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