GlianaAI vs rolling your own x402 gateway
x402 is an open protocol — you can wrap your own provider accounts in it. What that costs to build, and when it is still the right call.
How Building x402 yourself works
Hold accounts with each model provider, put your own 402 handshake in front, run a facilitator or integrate one, and reconcile settlement against provider invoices yourself.
How GlianaAI differs
Four rails already work — x402 on Base and Solana, a402 on Algorand, b402 on BNB Chain, and MPP — against one catalog, with pre-charge validation, ceiling pricing for variable-cost work, and refunds when a provider fails after you were charged.
When Building x402 yourself wins
You have your own models or provider contracts, or the margin at your volume is worth more than the engineering. If you are selling your own inference, you should absolutely front it yourself.
When GlianaAI wins
You want to be a buyer, not an operator. The hard parts are not the handshake — they are charge-then-fail, undercharging on dynamic prices, and settlement failures, and each one costs real money to learn.
The honest note
The protocol is genuinely easy. The billing correctness around it is where the time goes, and that is the only thing we are really selling you here.
Try it without signing up
There is nothing to provision. This asks the gateway which endpoint fits, and costs nothing.
curl 'https://api.glianalabs.com/v1/consult?intent=transcribe%20a%20podcast'
Then make a paid call, or hand an agent https://api.glianalabs.com/skill.md.