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Building pay-per-intelligence for AI agents: How Ampersend uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Jun 22, 2026 · Product Launches

Ampersend built a pay-per-intelligence routing layer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments letting AI agents pay autonomously per request.

“agents should pay for intelligence the same way they already call APIs, programmatically, instantly, and without human intervention.”

Ampersend and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments launched a system enabling autonomous AI agents to pay per request for model and API services within governed spending limits using the x402 protocol. It matters because agentic payment infrastructure removes a major bottleneck—bespoke billing and wallet management—for builders deploying autonomous agents that must transact machine-to-machine.

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