# Agentic commerce

AI agents buying for people and companies: finding the price, paying and getting what was paid for, with no person at the checkout.

Also called agent payments, agentic payments.

Source: https://agentdrives.com/glossary/agentic-commerce · as data: https://agentdrives.com/glossary/agentic-commerce.json · licence CC BY 4.0

## In our drives

Pay is one step of every drive. A product reaches L5 only when our agent paid on its own and we checked the payment, or when there was nothing to pay.

Agent payments in our data: https://agentdrives.com/data/payments?via=md

## Related terms

- [x402](https://agentdrives.com/glossary/x402.md): An open payment standard built on HTTP's 402 Payment Required: the server answers a request with what it costs, and the agent pays and sends the request again.
- [MPP](https://agentdrives.com/glossary/mpp.md): The Machine Payments Protocol: a way for a server to ask for payment over HTTP, so an agent can pay for a call or a plan without a checkout page.
- [Agents as customers](https://agentdrives.com/glossary/agents-as-customers.md): AI agents that choose, sign up for and pay for software on behalf of the people and companies they work for. A product that keeps them out loses those sales.
- [Agent Access Levels](https://agentdrives.com/glossary/agent-access-levels.md): Our scale from L0 to L5 for how far an AI agent gets in a product on its own. L0 means there is nothing for an agent to use. L5 means it gets in, does the work, pays and leaves without a person.

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