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24 alternatives to Machine Payments Protocol

The internet-native payment standard for AI agents

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    pay.sh▲346

    Discover, access, and pay for any API autonomously

    May 2026 · pay.sh · its alternatives →

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    JustPaid▲272

    Autonomous AI for billing, contracts, and collections.

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    AP2▲155

    The open protocol for agentic commerce

    2025 · cloud.google.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered payments and conversational commerce

    Apr 2026 · payemoji.com · its alternatives →

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    the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet

    Aug 2026 · blog.cloudflare.com · its alternatives →

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    Instant access to payments expertise, one question at a time

    2023 · basistheory.com · its alternatives →

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    P402.io▲102

    Route, verify, and settle paid API calls with clear traces

    Jan 2026 · p402.io · its alternatives →

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    Financial Infra for the AI era

    Aug 2026 · skill.uniwebpay.com · its alternatives →

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    Global micropayments: empowering AI workers worldwide

    2023 · sonicwallet.com · its alternatives →

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    Per-call payments + auto-discovery for any API

    May 2026 · payweave.app · its alternatives →

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    M-PESA Daraja MCP — first African payment API for AI agents

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered Invoice automation with effortless voice commands

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    How two AI agents settled a USDC escrow over email on Base, with a public, verifiable on-chain transaction. Non-custodial, ERC-4337 wallets.

    Jun 2026 · agirails.io · its alternatives →

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    Payment orchestration for LatAm, built for Agents and SaaS.

    Jan 2026 · abacatepay.com · its alternatives →

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    Marketplace where AI agents buy APIs automatically

    Jun 2026 · getrunpay.com · its alternatives →

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    Wallet-native MetaMask AI Payments. No custody. Low gas fee.

    Jan 2026 · cryptocredits.io · its alternatives →

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    Standard for LLM app to interact with EVM-compatible network

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a new open standard that gives AI agents a universal interface to external tools and data. Discover how MCP empowers more powerful, autonomous AI assistants to perform real-world tasks seamlessly.

    2024 · agnt.one · its alternatives →

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    Simplify And Automate Business Payments

    2024 · payherokenya.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20OS

    Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful, but they’re limited by fixed context windows and outdated knowledge. What if your AI could access live search, structured data extraction, OCR, and more—all through a standardized interface? We built the JigsawStack MCP Server, an open-source implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that lets any AI model call external tools effortlessly. Here’s what it unlocks: - Web Search & Scraping: Fetch live information and extract structured data from web pages. - OCR & Structured Data Extraction: Process images, receipts, invoices, and handwritten…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Most of the MCP servers that I’ve seen are tools implemented in standalone projects. To onboard more tools (especially agents and multi-agent workflows) to MCP, I’ve been thinking it’s important to allow AI engineers to continue to prototype in their existing agent frameworks and deploy with minimal conversion when ready. We created the automcp library, which you can add as a dependency to existing projects (CrewAI, LangGraph, Llama Index, OpenAI Agents SDK, Pydantic AI, mcp-agent currently supported but more coming soon). You just need to run a CLI command to create a run_mcp.py file, make…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Composable Standard for AI-Driven Innovation

    2025 · openexus.com · its alternatives →

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    The first payments infrastructure built for AI agents.

    2025 · tally.so · its alternatives →

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