x402: a tool for humans and machines
IBANGuardian stays free for people. It is also built so that an AI agent can use it without an API: the rules and the data it works from are published in a form a machine can read, starting from our data index.
The next step is payment per use.
We have applied for early access to Cloudflare’s1 per-use payment gateway. If we get access, use by people stays free, and automated commercial use would pay a small fee per check.
x402 is an open protocol for paying over HTTP, named for the HTTP 402 status code it finally puts to use. Cloudflare is building it with a coalition of more than 25 industry leaders, and on 1 July 2026 announced the Monetization Gateway, which uses x402 to let a site charge any caller for a resource, from an API to data. The site owner will set payment rules, and Cloudflare will verify the payment before letting the request through. The gateway is open to Cloudflare customers through a waitlist.
Who asks: people and machines
- Human page requests
- Machine requests
No complete log for 2026-09-08 to 2026-10-25 (48 days); those days are left empty.
| Date | Human page requests | Machine requests | Machine share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-27 | 154 | 25 | 14.0% |
| 2026-08-28 | 68 | 29 | 29.9% |
| 2026-08-29 | 59 | 34 | 36.6% |
| 2026-08-30 | 83 | 35 | 29.7% |
| 2026-08-31 | 95 | 56 | 37.1% |
| 2026-09-01 | 99 | 34 | 25.6% |
| 2026-09-02 | 93 | 39 | 29.5% |
| 2026-09-03 | 254 | 81 | 24.2% |
| 2026-09-04 | 132 | 117 | 47.0% |
| 2026-09-05 | 296 | 62 | 17.3% |
| 2026-09-06 | 213 | 89 | 29.5% |
| 2026-09-07 | 158 | 76 | 32.5% |
| 2026-10-26 | 376 | 140 | 27.1% |
| 2026-10-27 | 318 | 183 | 36.5% |
| 2026-10-28 | 285 | 211 | 42.5% |
| 2026-10-29 | 292 | 500 | 63.1% |
| 2026-10-30 | 184 | 307 | 62.5% |
| 2026-10-31 | 235 | 186 | 44.2% |
| 2026-11-01 | 1,532 | 159 | 9.4% |
| 2026-11-02 | 153 | 115 | 42.9% |
| 2026-11-03 | 289 | 132 | 31.4% |
| 2026-11-04 | 614 | 402 | 39.6% |
| 2026-11-05 | 439 | 303 | 40.8% |
| 2026-11-06 | 440 | 370 | 45.7% |
| 2026-11-07 | 411 | 247 | 37.5% |
Recorded, 2026-08-27 to 2026-11-07: 11,204 page and data requests, of which 7,272 were human page requests and 3,932 machine requests, so 35.1% of the counted requests came from machines.
How we count
A human page request is a successful request (status 200) for a page of this site from a browser that does not identify itself as a bot. A machine request is a successful request for a page or for one of our /data/ JSON files from a client that identifies itself as a bot, a crawler or a script, or that sends no user agent at all. A bot that presents itself as a browser is counted as a human page request, so the machine share is a minimum.
Requests from our own site monitor, automated probes (for example for WordPress login pages or hidden configuration files that this site does not have), and files such as scripts, styles and images are counted on neither side.
The numbers come from our own server logs, counted day by day with these rules. Within the window shown, 2026-08-27 to 2026-11-07, only the days for which we hold a complete log are counted; any other day is left out.
The site is behind Cloudflare. We count requests; our logs cannot show how many separate visitors made them, and a request that Cloudflare answers from its cache never reaches our logs.
1 The Cloudflare name is a trademark of the Cloudflare, Inc. group of companies. The Monetization Gateway and x402 are names and marks of their respective owners, used here only to refer to their products. ZENOM is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cloudflare. Source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/ ↩
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