language-detect — x402 pay-per-call API

Detects the language of a text (186 languages supported), returning the top 3 most likely matches.

Calling it

Call it once with no payment. The response is HTTP 402 with the exact payment requirements in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header — amount in atomic USDC units, the asset contract, the recipient and the deadline. Sign those terms and retry with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header. There is no API key and no account.

# 1. unpaid — returns 402 with the terms
curl -i -X POST https://basalt-n6lt.onrender.com/language-detect \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"text":"Hello, this is a test."}'

# 2. retry with the signature your wallet produced from those terms

Request body

{
  "text": "Hello, this is a test."
}

Response

{
  "language": "eng",
  "confident": true,
  "candidates": [
    {
      "code": "eng",
      "score": 0.98
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "score": 0.01
    },
    {
      "code": "gla",
      "score": 0.005
    }
  ]
}

Price in context

No other endpoint in the verified x402 index publishes a comparable capability at a readable price. Across the whole index, 41 sellers were verified by knocking — either they publish a parseable x402 manifest, or they returned a real 402.

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