Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments | Amazon Web Services

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When an AI agent runs, it often needs to buy something to finish a task: a model inference, an API response, access web content, or a call to another agent. These purchases are small and frequent, sometimes a fraction of a cent each, and they happen inside the agent’s loop with no person available to approve them.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments removes that burden. It gives agents a managed way to pay for services on demand, with spending limits enforced by the infrastructure rather than by the model. In this post, we look at how Incarna used AgentCore payments to let its agents pay BlockRun for model inference one request at a time. BlockRun is a pay-as-you-go inference router serving more than 90 models from more than 15 providers over x402, each call quoted and settled independently. AgentCore payments works with x402-compatible endpoints, including Amazon Bedrock inference endpoints. With...

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