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Kobaru

An x402 micropayment gateway and transparent proxy that adds pay-per-request paywalls to existing APIs without backend rewrites.

Last commit Feb 11, 2026 · ★ 4

Overview

Kobaru is an x402 micropayment gateway that lets developers monetize existing APIs via a transparent proxy and SDKs, with per-request and dynamic pricing. Clients/agents receive a standard x402 challenge and settle on Solana, Base, or SKALE, with payment validated at the gateway edge. It provides an open-source API Paywall Cookbook. Positioned for agent-to-API commerce.

Sato Score

56/100· Medium

How open, active & verifiable — not a safety or returns grade.

Maintenance & liveness
20/35
Code transparency
13/20
Interface verifiability
0/10
Docs & demo
6/10
Listing transparency & provenance
14/15
Independent verification
3/10

Observed record 57 daily checks since 2026-07-14

100%of our checks succeeded
Currently responding for 57 days
Succeeded
57
Failed
0
Their error
0
Unattributed
0

This is the share of our daily checks that succeeded — not an availability guarantee. A check can fail because the host was down, because our runner timed out, or because the network in between dropped it, and only the first of those is a fact about this project. Failures are split by what we can attribute; anything we cannot attribute is counted, not hidden. 49 of these checks predate 2026-09-01, when the probe counted a bot-block (HTTP 403) as a failure and recorded no reason for any failure. Rates spanning that date mix two definitions. Since then: 100%.

Details

Chains
Solana, Base
Agent types
Payments, Infrastructure
Open source
Partial
Pricing
Per-request micropayments; pricing set by API operator
Deploys as
Hosted, Self-hosted, npm, MCP server, APIfrom project docs · 2026-06-25
Works with
x402, Model Context Protocol (MCP), USDCfrom project docs · 2026-06-25
Last checked
2026-09-08

Marketplace Signals

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Verification status reflects evidence reviewed by Sato Hub. Self-reported claims are never presented as verified.

#x402#micropayments#api-monetization#proxy#paywall#solana#base#skale#agent-payments#usdc#mcp#machine-economy

Where Kobaru fits

Related concepts: How Agents Use Wallets, What Are Onchain Agents?

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Listing History

Recorded changes to Kobaru's listing — status, verification, Sato Score, and recent releases. Full history is kept in the listing record.

  1. Jul 20, 2026
    Edited: deploy spec
  2. Jun 25, 2026
    Enriched: has pricing, marketplace notes
  3. Jun 25, 2026
    Auto-enriched: creator name, creator profile url, deployment options, supported integrations +1 more
  4. Jun 11, 2026
    Sato Hub began tracking this listing

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