List Your API on AgenticTrade in 5 Minutes — A Step-by-Step Guide
Your API already works. Now let AI agents find it, call it, and pay you automatically.
You Built the API. The Hard Part Should Be Over.
You've spent weeks — maybe months — building an API that does something genuinely useful. Market data aggregation, document parsing, image generation, whatever it is. It works. It's fast. You're proud of it.
Now you want to make money from it.
This is where most developers hit the wall. Not because their API isn't good enough, but because the monetization infrastructure is a nightmare:
- RapidAPI charges 25% of every transaction. For an API that earns $1,000/month, that's $250 gone before you see a dime.
- Building your own billing means Stripe integration, subscription logic, usage metering, fraud detection, webhook handling — easily 2-4 weeks of work that has nothing to do with your actual product.
- AI agents can't find you. The fastest-growing segment of API consumers — autonomous AI agents — has no standardized way to discover, authenticate, and pay for your service.
AgenticTrade fixes all three problems. Here's how to go from zero to earning in about 5 minutes.
Step 1: Create Your Provider Account (30 seconds)
Head to agentictrade.io/portal/register and create an account. Email, password, done.
No credit card required. No approval process. No "we'll get back to you in 3-5 business days."
You get 0% commission for your first month — every dollar an agent pays goes directly to you.
Step 2: Register Your API as a Service (2 minutes)
In the provider dashboard, click "Add Service" and fill in:
- Service name — what your API does (e.g., "CoinSifter Pro Scanner")
-
Base URL — where your API lives (e.g.,
https://api.yourservice.com) - Price per call — you set it, not us (e.g., $0.10/call)
- Description — a clear explanation so both humans and AI agents understand what they're getting
That's the core setup. AgenticTrade generates a Proxy Key for your service — this handles authentication between your API and the agents calling it. You don't need to change your existing auth system.
Your API ←→ AgenticTrade Proxy ←→ AI Agent
(auth + billing)
The proxy sits in the middle. Agents authenticate with AgenticTrade, AgenticTrade authenticates with your API. Your existing infrastructure stays exactly as it is.
Step 3: Add an MCP Tool Descriptor (1 minute)
This is the part that makes your API AI-native.
AgenticTrade auto-generates an MCP Tool Descriptor for your service — a machine-readable definition that tells AI agents exactly what your API does, what parameters it accepts, and what it returns.
Think of it as an OpenAPI spec, but designed for AI agents instead of human developers:
{
"name": "coinsifter_scan",
"description": "Scan 600+ USDT trading pairs with configurable technical indicators",
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"timeframe": { "type": "string", "enum": ["1h", "4h", "1d"] },
"indicators": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
"min_volume": { "type": "number" }
}
}
}
Any AI agent that speaks MCP (Model Context Protocol) can now discover your API, understand its capabilities, and decide whether to use it — all without human intervention.
Step 4: Set Your Pricing (30 seconds)
AgenticTrade uses pay-per-call pricing. You decide what each API call costs. Some options:
| Strategy | Example | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier + paid | Demo: $0, Pro: $0.10/call | Building trust, letting agents test first |
| Flat per-call | $0.05/call for everything | Simple APIs with consistent cost |
| Tiered by endpoint | Basic: $0.01, Advanced: $0.50 | APIs with varying compute costs |
Agents pay in USDC (stablecoin pegged to USD). Settlements happen automatically. You don't chase invoices, you don't deal with chargebacks.
Commission structure:
- Month 1: 0% (you keep everything)
- Months 2-3: 5%
- Month 4+: 10% (capped — never goes higher)
For comparison, RapidAPI takes 25% from day one. We start at zero and cap at 10%.
Step 5: Verify It Works (1 minute)
Test the full flow:
# Create a buyer key (simulating an AI agent)
curl -X POST https://agentictrade.io/api/v1/keys \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "test-agent", "type": "buyer"}'
# Call your service through the proxy
curl https://agentictrade.io/api/v1/proxy/{your-service-id}/your-endpoint \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {key_id}:{secret}"
If you get your API's response back, you're live. AI agents worldwide can now discover and pay for your service.
What Happens Next
Once your API is listed, here's what the flow looks like from an agent's perspective:
- Discovery — An AI agent queries AgenticTrade's MCP registry: "I need a cryptocurrency scanning API." Your service shows up.
- Evaluation — The agent reads your MCP Tool Descriptor, checks your pricing, reviews your uptime and response time stats.
- Call — The agent makes a request through the proxy. AgenticTrade handles authentication and usage metering.
- Payment — USDC is deducted from the agent's wallet and credited to yours. No human involved.
This isn't theoretical. CoinSifter — a crypto market scanning API — is already live on AgenticTrade, serving calls from AI trading agents.
Why Not Just Use RapidAPI?
Fair question. Here's the honest comparison:
| AgenticTrade | RapidAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| Commission | 0% → 10% (capped) | 25% |
| AI agent support | Native (MCP protocol) | None (human-only) |
| Payment | USDC (auto-settlement) | Credit card (manual) |
| Onboarding time | ~5 minutes | Hours to days |
| Listing approval | Instant | Manual review |
RapidAPI is built for human developers browsing a catalog. AgenticTrade is built for AI agents making autonomous purchasing decisions. Both have their place, but if you want to be where the growth is — agent-to-agent commerce — you need to be on a platform agents can actually use.
The Founding Seller Program
We're accepting the first 50 providers into the Founding Seller program:
- Permanently lower commission rate
- Priority placement in agent search results
- Direct input on platform roadmap
- Founding Seller badge (visible to agents and humans)
Once 50 spots are filled, the program closes. No exceptions.
Get Started
- Register at agentictrade.io/portal/register
- Add your API as a service
- Set your pricing
- Start earning from AI agents
No pitch deck. No sales call. No "enterprise plan" gatekeeping.
You built something useful. Let the agents pay for it.
This post is part of the AgenticTrade developer series. Next up: "How to Build an MCP Bridge for Your Existing REST API."
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