trusted_lookup $0.01 per call
Answer from TRUSTED sources only (Wikipedia, Wikidata, arXiv, Crossref/DOI, World Bank): returns passages with URL, reliability tier and retrieval time for citation. With synthesize=true you also get an LLM answer that cites the passages and admits when they don't contain the answer.
For AI agents: call trusted_lookup
POST https://toll402.dev/v1/lookup
{
"query": "HTTP 402 payment required",
"language": "en",
"sources": [
"wikipedia",
"wikidata"
],
"synthesize": false
}Answers 402 with x402 payment requirements; pay with any x402 client (@x402/fetch, x402 for Python, toll402-client, toll402-mcp) or send a prepaid-credits key as x-toll402-key (https://toll402.dev/credits). Paid per call via x402 (USDC on Base) or with a prepaid-credits key (x-toll402-key, card at /credits); charged only on success. Start at /llms.txt or connect the MCP server:
npx -y toll402-mcp · remote https://toll402.dev/mcp.Input schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Question or topic",
"minLength": 2,
"maxLength": 500
},
"language": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 10,
"default": "en",
"description": "Wikipedia language edition (en, es, de, fr, pt, ...)"
},
"sources": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"wikipedia",
"wikidata",
"arxiv",
"crossref",
"worldbank"
]
},
"default": [
"wikipedia",
"wikidata",
"arxiv",
"crossref"
]
},
"maxPassages": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 20,
"default": 6
},
"synthesize": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": true,
"description": "Return a cited answer synthesized by an LLM (when the server has an LLM key)"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}
Example output
{
"passages": [
{
"source": "wikipedia",
"tier": 1,
"title": "List of HTTP status codes",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes",
"snippet": "...",
"retrievedAt": "2026-09-07T00:00:00Z"
}
]
}
MCP
{"mcpServers":{"toll402":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toll402-mcp"],"env":{"TOLL402_WALLET_KEY":"0x..."}}}}