Authoritative DNS redundancy or monitoring is degraded. DNS may remain available while checks recover.
x402 VPS
Putting the autonomous in autonomous system.
No human in the loop by default. A VPS your agent pays for over HTTP 402: no signup, no API key, no balance top-up. Ask for a VM, get an exact USDC price, sign it, receive a status URL.
live facts
- + VMs from $0.20/day
- + USDC on Base
eip155:8453 - + USDC on Polygon
eip155:137 - + USDC on Arbitrum
eip155:42161 - + Native VM checkout: XMR
- + IPv6 from
2a0c:b641:b51::/48, AS215932
What an x402 VPS is
x402 turns HTTP 402 Payment Required into a real checkout. Hyrule Cloud answers a VM order with exact payment requirements. The client signs a USDC transfer on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum and retries with a Payment-Signature header. The paid request is the order itself, so there is no account to create and no balance to pre-fund.
Prices and schemas are published in the x402 manifest and the OpenAPI document. The same model covers the paid network diagnostics: DNS, BGP, TLS, mail and port checks.
Hyrule is an ISP operated by autonomous agents. Discovery, payment, provisioning and routine ops stay software-driven with no human in the loop by default. Abuse handling and legal process remain the documented exceptions.
Prepaid per day, priced live from the API.
1C-1G-10G
$0.20
/day
- vCPU1
- RAM1 GB
- Disk10 GB
- NetworkIPv6+NAT64
≈ $6.00 / month
≈ $73.00 / year
Select 1C-1G-10G
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1C-2G-20G
$0.40
/day
- vCPU1
- RAM2 GB
- Disk20 GB
- NetworkIPv6+NAT64
≈ $12.00 / month
≈ $146.00 / year
Select 1C-2G-20G
2C-4G-20G
$0.60
/day
- vCPU2
- RAM4 GB
- Disk20 GB
- NetworkIPv6+NAT64
≈ $18.00 / month
≈ $219.00 / year
Select 2C-4G-20G
4C-4G-40G
$0.80
/day
- vCPU4
- RAM4 GB
- Disk40 GB
- NetworkIPv6+NAT64
≈ $24.00 / month
≈ $292.00 / year
Select 4C-4G-40G
1Read prices fromhttps://cloud.hyrule.host/.well-known/x402.json.2POSTthe VM order and receive402 Payment Requiredwith exact requirements.3Sign the USDC authorization and retry withPayment-Signature.4Poll the returned status URL, then SSH to the VM over IPv6.
Other agent and no-KYC VPS options.
| provider | what you get | account | payment | billing | network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyrule Cloud | full VM, root SSH | none for one-shot orders | x402 USDC per order (Base, Polygon, Arbitrum); XMR for VMs | prepaid per day, 1–365 days | IPv6-only + NAT64, own ASN (AS215932) |
| x402vps | Docker containers | none (wallet is identity) | x402 USDC on Base | per hour | internet on node/core plans |
| OpenVPS | Firecracker microVM, Ubuntu 24.04 | none | x402 USDC (Base, Celo); MPP (Tempo) | per hour, per resource | public IP, per-VM port forwarding |
| NordBastion | VPS, Nordic jurisdictions, MCP + REST | email + password | x402 per call or prepaid crypto balance | monthly, from $3.90/mo | not stated on page |
| Servury | VPS / VDS, 8 locations | 32-character credential | XMR (own node) | 7–365 day terms | not stated on page |
Competitor details are taken from each provider's public page as linked, checked 2026-10-11, and may have changed since. Hyrule is the better fit when you want no account, per-order x402 settlement, and IPv6-native networking on an independent network. Pick another provider if you need inbound IPv4, many locations, or hourly billing.
Do I need an account or API key?
No. One-shot VM orders and paid diagnostics settle per request over x402. Optional accounts exist for managing several resources and use a generated handle, not an identity profile.
Which chains and tokens are accepted?
USDC via x402 on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum. The list is read live from /v1/payments/networks.
What does the API return after payment?
VM creation returns 202 with a public status URL and a save-once management URL. Status moves from payment_required to provisioning, then provisioned, failed, or rolled_back.
How fast is a VM ready?
Typical builds finish in about 60 seconds.
What happens when the prepaid days run out?
You can extend before expiry. Expired VMs keep a 48-hour grace period; renew before it ends to avoid deletion.
Does it support IPv4?
Every VM gets globally routed IPv6 from 2a0c:b641:b51::/48. Outbound IPv4 works through NAT64/DNS64. Inbound IPv4 to customer VMs is not available in v1.
Is a human involved in day-to-day operations?
Provisioning, payments and routine operations run through autonomous agents with no human in the loop by default. Abuse reports and legal process are the documented exceptions — see the abuse policy.