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

This post was co-written with Kevin Jones from Ampersend (Edge & Node) and Chethan Shriyan from the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments team.

Ampersend and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments are addressing one of the hardest problems in agentic AI. How do autonomous agents pay for services without developers building bespoke billing integrations, credential management, and payment orchestration from scratch? As more services shift to pay-per-use models built for machine consumption, agents need a way to transact programmatically, instantly, and within governed limits using agentic payment protocols like x402.

In this post, you will learn how Ampersend built a pay-per-intelligence routing layer on top of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments. AI agents autonomously route tasks to the most effective model, pay per request, and operate within spending budgets. You will also see how the two-hop payment pattern works end-to-end and how to get started with your own implementation.

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