Developers can connect the Solana wallet to AI tools like Claude Code or Gemini and have an agent access paid APIs within a minute.
The Solana Foundation has partnered with Google Cloud to launch Pay.sh, a platform that allows AI agents to use and pay for API services using stablecoins on Solana.
The two built the payment gateway service to solve a common problem in software development, where advanced AI systems still need human intervention to create accounts, manage credentials, and handle billing.
Solana’s agent-based payment layer
The company shared an announcement on May 5 that Pay.sh He presents A system where AI agents can discover, access, and pay for APIs autonomously on a per-request basis without requiring accounts, keys, or subscriptions.
Vibhu Norby, Chief Product Officer at Solana Corporation, He said The product was developed in part to address the growing problem of unregulated automated payments, with the collaboration aiming to legitimize the growing agent-driven economy through a compliant solution.
“Most agent payments are made through gray or black market facilities, meaning they can be disabled or blocked without notice by the underlying provider,” he wrote.
The platform acts as an API proxy built on top of Google Cloud infrastructure, handling payments while still enforcing appropriate security controls such as rate limits and access permissions, Solana explained.
Pay.sh works by connecting the Solana wallet to popular AI tools like Gemini, Cloud Code, and Codex, allowing users to fund it in about 60 seconds using stablecoins or a credit card, after which the agent can immediately start accessing several paid Google Cloud API services like BigQuery, Vertex AI, and Cloud Run.
Transactions on the gateway service are processed quickly using stablecoins on Solana and then converted to fiat currency for service providers. This also means that developers only pay for what they use, while service providers get paid reliably without managing subscriptions or billing systems.
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The product also provides a comprehensive marketplace where agents can access 50+ community services across multiple domains such as e-commerce, data intelligence, telecommunications, and blockchain infrastructure on platforms like Rye, Dune Analytics, Nansen, StableEmail, Helius, and The Graph.
Pay.sh offers an open source payment solution
Pay.sh is built on open standards like x402 and MPP for machine-to-device transactions and is completely open source, allowing developers to explore code, contribute, and build their own integrations. The platform also brings together services from different proxy providers into one searchable catalog in the Solana ecosystem.
Launch partners supporting the platform community include PayAI, Crossmint, Merit Systems, Corbits, Moonpay, Sponge Wallet, ATXP, and Tektonic.
This development comes as major cryptocurrency and technology companies race to build payment infrastructures for autonomous AI systems, with Coinbase also taking part. Revealing x402 App Store for Agents, a marketplace designed to standardize micropayments between bots.
Elsewhere, Google is expanding its cryptocurrency payments business with the company release Proxy Payments Protocol (AP2) powered by Coinbase and the Ethereum Foundation.
