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Today we're launching 24K Labs -- a new kind of AI services company built for the agent economy. Six precision AI services, pay-per-request pricing in USDC, and zero friction between you and the result.
The idea is simple: the best AI should be accessible without subscriptions, seat licenses, or enterprise sales calls. Send a request, pay a few dollars in USDC via the x402 protocol, and get a production-quality result in seconds. Whether you're a solo developer checking a code review at 2 AM or an autonomous AI agent purchasing a security audit as part of its deployment pipeline -- the experience is the same.
We're starting with six services: code explanation, debugging assistance, code review, security auditing, automation scripting, and MCP server blueprint design. Each one does one thing exceptionally well. Pricing scales with input size across four tiers -- from a quick $0.50 snippet check to enterprise-grade deep analysis.
Every request is powered by Claude, Anthropic's frontier AI. Payments settle on Base L2 in USDC with sub-cent transaction fees. The whole thing runs on Cloudflare's global edge network.
We're building for a future where machines hire machines. That future is already here.
The SaaS model made sense when software was the bottleneck. But in the age of AI agents, the bottleneck isn't access -- it's value per interaction. A code review that catches a critical vulnerability is worth $100. A code review that says "looks good" is worth nothing. Why pay the same monthly fee for both?
24K Labs charges per request because every request is different. A 50-line quick check costs $10. A 2,000-line deep security audit costs $100. You pay for the work, not the calendar. And because we use x402 micropayments, there's no minimum spend, no commitment, and no invoicing department to deal with.
For AI agents, this is even more important. An autonomous coding agent doesn't have a credit card or a procurement department. It has a wallet and a task. x402 lets it discover a service, pay, and consume the result in a single HTTP request cycle. That's the future of software commerce, and it's live today.