How ZeroClick works
ZeroClick puts an agent-ready storefront in front of your existing API. AI agents discover your service, purchase a plan, and call your API through a ZeroClick proxy. You keep your own authentication, your own infrastructure, and your own pricing. ZeroClick handles discovery, checkout, key provisioning, metering, and billing.
You integrate once. After that, every plan you publish in the dashboard is immediately purchasable and usable by agents.
The flow#
- An agent discovers your service through ZeroClick's hosted skill description and MPP & x402 marketplaces.
- The agent purchases a plan at
https://{service-slug}.pay.zeroclick.io/plans. - ZeroClick provisions access by calling the API key exchange endpoint you host, trading the buyer's identity for an API key.
- The agent calls your API through
https://{service-slug}.pay.zeroclick.io/*. ZeroClick proxies each request to your upstream URL and injects the buyer's API key, so requests arrive at your API already authenticated. - You report usage synchronously or asynchronously so ZeroClick can meter and bill the buyer.
- When a plan runs out, you respond with
402 Payment Required. The agent is directed tohttps://{service-slug}.pay.zeroclick.io/extendto top up, then retries.
Your API stays yours
ZeroClick never stores your users' data or rewrites your API surface. The proxy forwards requests to your upstream URL unchanged, apart from injecting the buyer's API key.
Core concepts#
- Service: your API. A name, a description, and the upstream URL ZeroClick proxies to.
- Product: something you sell from a service. Every product has a shape that determines how it is billed: pay-as-you-go, subscription, subscription with included usage, or prepaid credits.
- Plan: a pricing tier within a product, such as Starter or Scale.
- Meter: a usage dimension you measure, such as API requests or compute runs.
- Entitlement: a feature flag attached to a plan, such as
support: priority.
Payments go directly to you#
ZeroClick never holds your money. When an agent purchases a plan at /plans
or tops up at /extend, the funds move directly from the buyer to the
payment destination you configure in the dashboard. There is no ZeroClick
balance, no payout schedule, and no withdrawal step: the purchase and the
payment to you are the same transaction.
Next steps#
Start with the Quickstart to get a service live end-to-end, or go straight to the API key exchange contract if you're ready to write code.