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title: "Agent checkout pricing and fees as published | Agent Ready Checkout"
description: "Pricing and fees as published: Most agent surfaces charge merchants nothing today. Every claim has a source and a read date."
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# Agent checkout pricing and fees as published | Agent Ready Checkout

> Pricing and fees as published: Most agent surfaces charge merchants nothing today. Every claim has a source and a read date.

Source: https://agentreadycheckout.com/guides/pricing-and-fees-as-published
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Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

Guide

# Pricing and fees as published

In short

Most agent surfaces charge merchants nothing today; the costs sit with processors. Stripe charges $0.15 per Shared Payment Token and 1.5 percent on stablecoins; Coinbase $0.001 per x402 transaction after 1,000; Crossmint charges agents $0.05 per checkout. Visa and Mastercard publish no agentic fees.

## What the sources say

-   Stripe: $0.15 per Shared Payment Token; 1.5 percent for stablecoin payments. [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/pricing), read 4 Nov 2026.
-   OpenAI: no fees on purchases that start in ChatGPT and complete on the merchant site. [chatgpt.com](https://chatgpt.com/merchants/), read 4 Nov 2026.
-   Microsoft: no commission or affiliate fee on Copilot Checkout today. [about.ads.microsoft.com](https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en/solutions/technology/agentic-commerce), read 4 Nov 2026.
-   Shopify: selling in ChatGPT through Agentic Storefronts carries no transaction fees beyond standard processing. [shopify.com](https://shopify.com/news/agentic-commerce-momentum), read 4 Nov 2026.
-   Coinbase x402 facilitator: free for 1,000 onchain transactions a month, then $0.001 each. [docs.cdp.coinbase.com](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/x402/core-concepts/facilitator), read 4 Nov 2026.
-   Crossmint Agent Checkouts: 1,000 free a month, then $0.05 per checkout, billed even when a checkout fails. [crossmint.com](https://www.crossmint.com/pricing), read 4 Nov 2026.
-   While Instant Checkout ran, PYMNTS reported a 4 percent OpenAI fee on Shopify merchant sales in ChatGPT. [pymnts.com](https://www.pymnts.com/news/ecommerce/2026/shopify-merchants-to-pay-4percent-fee-on-sales-made-through-chatgpt-checkout), read 4 Nov 2026.Trade press

## Profiles named in this guide

-   [x402](https://agentreadycheckout.com/protocols/x402)
-   [Stripe](https://agentreadycheckout.com/processors/stripe)
-   [Coinbase Developer Platform (x402)](https://agentreadycheckout.com/processors/coinbase)
-   [Crossmint](https://agentreadycheckout.com/processors/crossmint)
-   [ChatGPT shopping (Instant Checkout, ACP discovery, ChatGPT agent)](https://agentreadycheckout.com/surfaces/chatgpt-shopping)
-   [Microsoft Copilot Checkout](https://agentreadycheckout.com/surfaces/microsoft-copilot)
-   [Shopify](https://agentreadycheckout.com/platforms/shopify)

## Read next

-   [The history of agent payments, September 2025 to November 2026](https://agentreadycheckout.com/guides/history-september-2025-to-now)
-   [How to test an agent purchase on your own store](https://agentreadycheckout.com/guides/test-an-agent-purchase)
-   [The protocol support matrix](https://agentreadycheckout.com/matrix)

## Sources

1.  [stripe.com/pricing](https://stripe.com/pricing), read 4 Nov 2026
2.  [Power product discovery in ChatGPT (merchants page)](https://chatgpt.com/merchants/), read 4 Nov 2026
3.  [Agentic Commerce, Microsoft Advertising](https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en/solutions/technology/agentic-commerce), read 4 Nov 2026
4.  [shopify.com/news/agentic-commerce-momentum](https://shopify.com/news/agentic-commerce-momentum), read 4 Nov 2026
5.  [docs.cdp.coinbase.com/x402/core-concepts/facilitator](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/x402/core-concepts/facilitator), read 4 Nov 2026
6.  [crossmint.com/pricing](https://www.crossmint.com/pricing), read 4 Nov 2026
7.  [Shopify Merchants to Pay 4% Fee on ChatGPT Checkout Sales](https://www.pymnts.com/news/ecommerce/2026/shopify-merchants-to-pay-4percent-fee-on-sales-made-through-chatgpt-checkout), read 4 Nov 2026

Last reviewed 4 Nov 2026

## Edition

Matrix edition of 4 Nov 2026.

Reviewed 4 Nov 2026, [7 sources](#sources-h).

## In Ora's pay-per-call index

Ora's paid-capability index, read 5 Nov 2026, lists 9,977 pay-per-call endpoints on 1,586 hosts; the median price is $0.01 a call.

-   [Endpoints agents can buy today](https://agentreadycheckout.com/pay-per-call)
-   [How to price a call](https://agentreadycheckout.com/pay-per-call/price-a-call)
-   [What a call costs](https://agentreadycheckout.com/pay-per-call/prices)

## Method

[How cells, sources and read dates are defined](https://agentreadycheckout.com/method)