# Micropayments become real

Card rails floor out around 30¢ plus a percentage — so a 1¢ API call or a 10¢ dataset was never sellable. Stablecoin transfers on L2s cost well under a cent, unlocking metered, pay-per-use pricing agents prefer.

Canonical: https://robauto.ai/learn/agentic-commerce-101/7

_Agentic Commerce 101: How Agents Buy and Sell — lesson 7 of 20 (STAT)_

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Card rails floor out around 30¢ plus a percentage — so a 1¢ API call or a 10¢ dataset was never sellable. Stablecoin transfers on L2s cost well under a cent, unlocking metered, pay-per-use pricing agents prefer.

Source: [Coinbase — Base network fees](https://docs.base.org?utm_source=robauto)

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