In-depth architectural comparison of the 402cron and GPT55 x402 MCP Gateway MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.
At a Glance & Executive Verdict
402cron
Developer Tools · Remote HTTP/SSE
Quality: 56/100 (Good) | Auth: other
GPT55 x402 MCP Gateway
Developer Tools · Remote HTTP/SSE
Quality: 56/100 (Good) | Auth: other
Verdict Summary: Choose 402cron if you need specialized Developer Tools tools running via a hosted cloud SSE transport. Choose GPT55 x402 MCP Gateway if your workspace requires Developer Tools integration with remote web transport. Both servers can be configured concurrently in your client's mcpServers manifest.
Which MCP Server Should You Choose?
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Choose 402cron when:
You need dedicated capabilities in the Developer Tools domain.
You prefer remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport architecture.
Your security boundary fits: other (Paid Service).
What a delivery costs, which packs exist, and the exact x402 payment requirements for each. Balance is counted in DELIVERIES, not money, and packs never expire. Call this before buying.
get_docs
One section of the machine documentation: quickstart, headers, signature, notice, errors, billing or limits. Omit `section` to get the whole document.
get_service_status
Whether the service is currently selling, on which network, and if not — why not. This is configuration, not liveness: the full health endpoint is at /health.
list_tasks
Your tasks and their state. Needs your management token as an Authorization header on this connection.
get_task
A single task: schedule, destination, state, next run, and how many failures in a row it carries.
Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations
Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).
402cron is categorized under Developer Tools and uses a remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport. In contrast, GPT55 x402 MCP Gateway belongs to Developer Tools using remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport. Select 402cron when you need capabilities focused on developer tools and GPT55 x402 MCP Gateway when you require tools for developer tools.
Register a schedule against a destination you have already verified. Idempotent on "name": the same name updates the existing task instead of creating a second one. Creating costs nothing; each delivery ATTEMPT costs one credit.
update_task
Change the schedule, destination, method, timeout, headers or body of an existing task. Omit a field to leave it unchanged — sending null is refused, because "unchanged" and "cleared" must not look the same. State is NOT editable here: use pause_task and resume_task.
pause_task
Stop firing until you resume. Nothing is charged while a task is paused.
resume_task
Start firing again on the schedule. Refused if your balance is empty — buy deliveries first.
run_task_now
Deliver immediately, outside the schedule. THIS COSTS ONE CREDIT per attempt, exactly like a scheduled firing, and a timeout or unreachable host is retried up to three times — so one call can cost up to three credits. Use it to test a destination.
delete_task
Move the task to the recycle bin. It stops firing immediately and can be restored for 30 days with restore_task; after that it is unrecoverable. Credits already spent are not refunded.
restore_task
Bring a task back from the recycle bin within 30 days. It comes back PAUSED — resume it explicitly.
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GPT55 x402 MCP Gateway Tools (218)
gpt55_x402_ping
Low-cost x402 payment proof endpoint with no upstream model call. Pay up to $0.002 per request with x402 USDC on Base or choose the fixed-price Solana USDC option when advertised. Exact fixed-price payment and Base upto token-metered payment are both accepted when clients support them; upto settlements use actual response usage, a 0.0001 minimum, and the selected tier price as the cap. Canonical live prices: https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/live-prices.json.
gpt55_balance_topup
Top up a GPT55 prepaid balance account with x402 exact USDC before using balance-metered GPT-5.5 chat. Pay up to $0.005 per request with x402 USDC on Base or choose the fixed-price Solana USDC option when advertised. Exact fixed-price payment and Base upto token-metered payment are both accepted when clients support them; upto settlements use actual response usage, a 0.0001 minimum, and the selected tier price as the cap. Canonical live prices: https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/live-prices.json.
gpt55_balance_metered_chat_completion
OpenAI-compatible GPT-5.5 chat that debits a persistent prepaid balance ledger after actual upstream usage is known using the read-only sub2api formula. Pay up to usage-metered balance debit per request with x402 USDC on Base or choose the fixed-price Solana USDC option when advertised. Exact fixed-price payment and Base upto token-metered payment are both accepted when clients support them; upto settlements use actual response usage, a 0.0001 minimum, and the selected tier price as the cap. Canonical live prices: https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/live-prices.json.
chat_standard
GPT-5.6 Luna chat for mainstream short answers, routing decisions, extraction helpers, and buyer trials. The legacy mini path remains available as a compatibility alias. Pay up to $0.00293 per request with x402 USDC on Base or choose the fixed-price Solana USDC option when advertised. Exact fixed-price payment and Base upto token-metered payment are both accepted when clients support them; upto settlements use actual response usage, a 0.0001 minimum, and the selected tier price as the cap. Canonical live prices: https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/live-prices.json.
chat_gpt_5_6_soul
GPT-5.6 Soul flagship chat for advanced reasoning, production work, code, and structured responses at GPT-5.5-matched pricing. Pay up to $0.099995 per request with x402 USDC on Base or choose the fixed-price Solana USDC option when advertised. Exact fixed-price payment and Base upto token-metered payment are both accepted when clients support them; upto settlements use actual response usage, a 0.0001 minimum, and the selected tier price as the cap. Canonical live prices: https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/live-prices.json.
chat_gpt_5_6_luna
GPT-5.6 Luna chat on the independently verified upstream gpt-5.6-luna model. Pay up to $0.019999 per request with x402 USDC on Base or choose the fixed-price Solana USDC option when advertised. Exact fixed-price payment and Base upto token-metered payment are both accepted when clients support them; upto settlements use actual response usage, a 0.0001 minimum, and the selected tier price as the cap. Canonical live prices: https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/live-prices.json.
chat_gpt_5_6_terra
GPT-5.6 Terra chat on the independently verified upstream gpt-5.6-terra model. Pay up to $0.049998 per request with x402 USDC on Base or choose the fixed-price Solana USDC option when advertised. Exact fixed-price payment and Base upto token-metered payment are both accepted when clients support them; upto settlements use actual response usage, a 0.0001 minimum, and the selected tier price as the cap. Canonical live prices: https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/live-prices.json.
chat_gpt_5_5
GPT-5.5 chat for stronger reasoning, production work, code, and structured responses. Pay up to $0.019999 per request with x402 USDC on Base or choose the fixed-price Solana USDC option when advertised. Exact fixed-price payment and Base upto token-metered payment are both accepted when clients support them; upto settlements use actual response usage, a 0.0001 minimum, and the selected tier price as the cap. Canonical live prices: https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/live-prices.json.
chat_gpt_5_3_codex
GPT-5.3 Codex chat for coding-oriented agent work, patch planning, and structured development output. Pay up to $0.007472 per request with x402 USDC on Base or choose the fixed-price Solana USDC option when advertised. Exact fixed-price payment and Base upto token-metered payment are both accepted when clients support them; upto settlements use actual response usage, a 0.0001 minimum, and the selected tier price as the cap. Canonical live prices: https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/live-prices.json.
chat_gpt_5_4
GPT-5.4 chat for high-quality general reasoning, coding, and structured responses. Pay up to $0.010109 per request with x402 USDC on Base or choose the fixed-price Solana USDC option when advertised. Exact fixed-price payment and Base upto token-metered payment are both accepted when clients support them; upto settlements use actual response usage, a 0.0001 minimum, and the selected tier price as the cap. Canonical live prices: https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/live-prices.json.
gpt55_x402_buyer_payment_execution_runbook
Premium GPT-5.5 x402 buyer execution agent that turns a paid route, budget cap, runtime, payTo/network expectation, and receipt policy into runnable Node, Python, Bash, MCP, and Flowise payment execution assets. The service never asks for private keys and never pays the target endpoint. Pay up to $4.90 per request with x402 USDC on Base or choose the fixed-price Solana USDC option when advertised. Exact fixed-price payment and Base upto token-metered payment are both accepted when clients support them; upto settlements use actual response usage, a 0.0001 minimum, and the selected tier price as the cap. Canonical live prices: https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/live-prices.json.
gpt55_x402_wallet_payment_activation_agent
Premium wallet payment activation agent for quote-only x402 buyers. It turns a target paid route, wallet runtime, route id, payTo/network expectations, receipt-gate requirement, and live quote intent signals into a buyer-owned activation plan, Node activation client, MCP payment activation config, Flowise payment activation node, and receipt gate policy without taking custody of private keys. Pay up to $2.90 per request with x402 USDC on Base or choose the fixed-price Solana USDC option when advertised. Exact fixed-price payment and Base upto token-metered payment are both accepted when clients support them; upto settlements use actual response usage, a 0.0001 minimum, and the selected tier price as the cap. Canonical live prices: https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/live-prices.json.
Hosted scheduled HTTP delivery for AI agents. Create recurring UTC cron schedules and send HMAC-signed requests to verified HTTPS destinations via remote Streamable HTTP MCP (https://402cron.com/mcp) or REST. Prepaid x402 credits in USDC on Base; billed per delivery attempt. Management uses a bearer token. Docs: https://402cron.com/docs. Operated by 402cron Labs.
GPT-5.6 Luna Standard paid API via x402: $0.00293 per request (2930 atomic) on Base USDC (eip155:8453), with browser-wallet checkout and an agent fallback client. Start at https://gpt55.558686.xyz/x402/service; POST https://gpt55.558686.xyz/v1/chat/completions/standard.