Nevermined is a payment infrastructure platform for AI agents, designed to enable AI agents to autonomously make and receive payments. Its core positioning is to provide a unified platform for AI commerce, connecting agents and merchants through delegated spending, usage metering, and autonomous settlement.
Main Capabilities
Agent Spending Control (Card Delegation)
Provides AI agents with a card and a budget. Users register a card once and set authorization instructions (a mandate), and the agent can then spend with any merchant that supports agent payments within the set budget range. Every transaction is traceable and supports instant revocation. The platform provides Visa virtual cards, enabling agents to transact over real Visa rails. It also supports embedded registration, making it easy for platforms to let users fund their agents.
Merchants Accepting Agent Payments (Accept Agent Payments)
Merchants can price their APIs, services, or tools per call or per result, and agents will autonomously complete payment. The platform supports prepaid plans, turning small calls into real revenue, while merchants can keep their existing payment service providers and payout methods. It provides an AI Services Catalog for agents to discover curated AI services. It also provides Card Capture Widgets, allowing merchants to accept card payments within their own checkout flow.
Metering and Settlement
The platform tracks every API call, MCP tool call, and A2A request. It supports permission control by tool, by session, and by budget, using programmable policies to limit what agents can spend on. The payment layer uniformly supports fiat, cryptocurrency, and credits. Settlement is completed before delivery and uses the merchant's existing payment channels.
Supported Protocols
The platform covers the MCP, x402, and A2A protocols, supporting transactions and communication between agents.
How to Use
For users who want their agents to spend: register a card for the agent and set a budget and authorization instructions, and the agent can then spend autonomously within the authorized range. For merchants who want to charge agents: connect a payment service provider (supports OAuth connections with Stripe or Braintree, with payout methods unchanged), set pricing (per call, per result, or subscription), and then accept payments from autonomous buyers. The platform also provides white-label and embedded infrastructure for existing digital service monetization platforms to run agent payments under their own brand and payment channels.
Use Cases
- API providers charging AI agents for calls
- Services such as AI crawlers and build platforms that need to charge agents
- Users who want their agents to spend autonomously over real payment rails
- Merchants who want to turn AI agents into customers
- Platforms that already monetize digital services embedding agent payment capabilities
Pricing and Fee Model
The platform offers a free start and charges only when agents make transactions. Merchants pay based on settled transaction volume; buyers pay the listed price in Nevermined payment schemes, and pay a routing fee on other channels.
Limitations
Detailed answers to questions such as which agent frameworks are supported were not fully provided in the materials. Specific implementation details of some features, regional availability, and the specific issuing regions of Visa virtual cards are not yet provided. Users should note that all agent spending is subject to authorization instructions, transactions over budget or in violation of policy will be blocked, and one-click revocation is supported.agent payments.
Use Cases
- API providers charging AI agents for calls
- Services such as AI crawlers and build platforms that need to charge agents
- Users who want their agents to spend autonomously over real payment rails
- Merchants who want to turn AI agents into customers
- Platforms that already monetize digital services embedding agent payment capabilities
Pricing and Fee Model
The platform offers a free start and charges only when agents make transactions. Merchants pay based on settled transaction volume; buyers pay the listed price in Nevermined payment schemes, and pay a routing fee on other channels.
Limitations
Detailed answers to questions such as which agent frameworks are supported (Which agent frameworks are supported?) were not fully provided in the materials. Specific implementation details of some features, regional availability, and the specific issuing regions of Visa virtual cards are not yet provided. Users should note that all agent spending is subject to authorization instructions, transactions over budget or in violation of policy will be blocked, and one-click revocation is supported.
