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Tiny automatic payments make machine usage economically viable. A fraction of a cent per lookup or call is acceptable for agents when it improves task completion. This enables per use pricing for APIs, datasets, and content.
Impact: Founders can build revenue from high frequency low value transactions that would not work for human customers. It also creates new unit economics for data products.
— from Cloudflare Agent Payments and New Internet Business Models · The Startup Ideas Podcast· Aug 10, 2026