Head-to-head
Crossmint vs Skyfire
In short
Crossmint sells buyer-side agent checkout ($0.05 per checkout after 1,000 a month) that uses Visa and Mastercard agent tokens or Shop Pay and UCP paths. On UCP the matrix reads Crossmint live and Skyfire no statement found, and the two split on 6 more protocols.
The sourced difference
Crossmint sells buyer-side agent checkout ($0.05 per checkout after 1,000 a month) that uses Visa and Mastercard agent tokens or Shop Pay and UCP paths. Skyfire issues signed kya, pay and kya-pay tokens and guarantees seller settlement up to the token amount, with Mastercard naming its Know Your Agent work on 30 Sep 2026. crossmint.com, read 4 Nov 2026.
Verdicts by reader type
- Head of ecommerce engineering
- Merchants meet Crossmint as a normal card payment; Skyfire needs token verification.
- Payments lead
- Skyfire guarantees settlement; Crossmint relies on the card network.
Side by side
| Measure | Crossmint | Skyfire |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Processor | Processor |
| Operator | Crossmint | Skyfire Systems |
| Homepage | crossmint.com | skyfire.xyz |
| Matrix cells with a stated status | 5 live, 0 pilot, 3 announced | 0 live, 0 pilot, 3 announced |
| Published pricing | Agent Checkouts: 1,000 checkouts free per project per month, then 0.05 USD per checkout, billed when a checkout starts (blocked or failed checkouts are billed). Saved cards: first 1,000 free, then 0.05 USD each. | No pricing statement on file |
| A limit worth knowing | Is not the merchant of record for purchases made through Agent Checkouts. | No published per-transaction fee found in docs or on the site. |
Protocol by protocol: where the statuses differ
7 of 12 protocols read differently for Crossmint and Skyfire on 4 Nov 2026.
Read the profiles
Sources
- crossmint.com/pricing, read 4 Nov 2026
- crossmint.com, read 4 Nov 2026
- skyfire.xyz, read 4 Nov 2026
- crossmint.com/announcement/agent-commerce-toolkit-launch, read 4 Nov 2026
- docs.skyfire.xyz/llms.txt, read 4 Nov 2026
- docs.skyfire.xyz/docs/payments-settlement.md, read 4 Nov 2026
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