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Charge for AI tools without taking a credit card

The problem

Card collection is a UX killer for AI tool consumption. Users abandon at the card form. PCI compliance is overhead. Chargebacks land 60 days later.

What Spawnpay does

Spawnpay accepts USDC on Base. No card form, no PCI scope, no chargebacks. Users fund a Spawnpay wallet once with USDC, then spend autonomously across any paywall-wrapped tool.

Code

# As a user, no card needed
# 1. Sign up: get free $7 credit
curl -X POST https://spawnpay.ai/api/signup
# 2. Top up later: send USDC on Base to your address (no signup wall)
60-SEC QUICKSTART → PLAYGROUND → TOP UP USDC →

What you get with $7 free credit

Every new spk_ wallet starts with $7. That covers 7,000 proxy calls, 1,400 cloud-scrapes, or 700 screenshots — enough to verify Spawnpay fits your workflow before topping up.

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