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Agent payments

Starter overview of how agents pay - card-network agent programs, scoped payment tokens, open commerce protocols and HTTP 402 payments.

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Agent payments

AI agents pay through card-network programs, limited payment tokens, open commerce protocols and payments built into a web request.12345 The table lists each rail; every program also has its own page in Payments.

RailWhat it isSources
Visa Intelligent CommerceLets agent providers transact with Visa credentials, with network-level controls, consumer-approved instructions and tokenized credentials; an MCP is available167
Mastercard Agent PayRegistered, verified agents and agentic tokens28
Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)Open standard for buyers, their agents and businesses; the spec is maintained by OpenAI and Stripe4
Stripe Shared Payment TokensA scoped, expiring payment credential with usage limits for agent purchases3
Stripe MCPOfficial Stripe MCP server for API actions and knowledge search, at https://mcp.stripe.com, with OAuth or agent API keys9
PayPal MCP server and Agent ToolkitMCP server that runs locally or remotely1011
x402Open, HTTP-native payment standard built on HTTP 402512

Where brokers meet payments

  • Coinbase for Agents lets an agent pay for data and research with x402 from a USDC balance.13
  • Robinhood’s Agentic Credit Card gives an agent a dedicated virtual card through Robinhood Banking’s MCP server, with a spending limit you set and a choice of manual approvals.1415 Details: Robinhood Agentic Credit Card.

Each program has its own page, with a sourced record, in the Payments section. AP2, which records what a user authorized, is on AP2.

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Footnotes

  1. Visa Developer Center. Visa Developer, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩2

  2. Mastercard Agent Pay: secure, scalable and trusted agentic AI. Mastercard, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩2

  3. Shared payment tokens - Stripe Documentation. Stripe Docs, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩2

  4. GitHub - agentic-commerce-protocol/agentic-commerce-protocol: The Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) is an interaction model and open standard for connec. ACP (GitHub), official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩2

  5. GitHub - x402-foundation/x402: A payments protocol for the internet. Built on HTTP. · GitHub. x402 Foundation (GitHub), official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩ ↩2

  6. MCP docs - Visa Developer. Visa Developer, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

  7. Visa Opens the Door to AI-Driven Shopping for Businesses Worldwide - Visa. Visa, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

  8. Agentic token framework: Driving trusted AI transactions. Mastercard, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

  9. Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Stripe Documentation. Stripe Docs, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

  10. MCP server quickstart guide - PayPal Developer. PayPal Developer, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

  11. Agent toolkit quickstart guide - PayPal Developer. PayPal Developer, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

  12. x402 specification v2. x402 Foundation (GitHub), official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

  13. Coinbase MCP - Coinbase Developer Documentation. Coinbase Developer Platform, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

  14. Robinhood is Now Open to Agents. Robinhood, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

  15. Agentic Credit Card - Robinhood. Robinhood, official, retrieved 2026-11-12. ↩

Last verified 2026-11-14

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