3DNS
Domain Names
Onchain registrar selling real .com, .xyz and .io names as tokens on Optimism, paid by card, ETH or USDC on Optimism.
USDC
Optimism
Verified
Software · Developer Tools
Developer Tools that accept stablecoins
Developer tooling is where stablecoin payment has quietly become normal. The customers write code, are comfortable with a wallet, and buy metered resources that suit a prepaid balance. The vendors sell globally to individuals rather than procurement departments, which means card declines and cross-border fees are a real cost rather than a rounding error. The result is a growing set of APIs, VPS providers and infrastructure services where paying in USDC is a first-class option rather than a curiosity. This hub covers those services and the billing mechanics behind them.
12 merchants USDCUSDTDAIEURC
Developer Tools accepting stablecoins
Cherry Servers
Cloud Hosting
Lithuanian bare-metal and cloud infrastructure provider that settles USDC and DAI through CoinGate and BVNK.
USDCDAI
EthereumBNB Chain +3 networks
Verified
Decodo
Developer Tools
Lithuanian proxy provider (formerly Smartproxy) publishing a coin-by-network table for crypto payments: USDC on seven networks, EURC on Ethereum, via CoinGate.
USDCEURC
EthereumBNB Chain +5 networks
Verified
Helius
Developer Tools
Solana RPC and data platform whose paid plans can be bought and auto-renewed in USDC on Solana, through the Solana Foundation's subscriptions program.
USDC
Solana
Verified
HOSTKEY
Web Hosting
Dedicated and GPU server provider taking five stablecoins through BitPay — and stating, unusually, that ERC-20 tokens are accepted on Ethereum only.
USDCUSDTDAI +2
Ethereum
Verified
IPRoyal
Developer Tools
Proxy network selling residential, datacentre and mobile IPs, with USDT, USDC, DAI and BUSD on its published 25-asset list.
USDTUSDCDAI
Verified
OpenRouter
AI Tools
Unified API routing requests across many large language models, with USDC credit top-ups.
USDC
EthereumBase +2 networks
Verified
Proxy-Seller
Developer Tools
Cyprus-based proxy provider whose FAQ names Bitcoin, USDT, USDC, BNB, TRX and TON among its payment methods — coins named, networks and processor not.
USDTUSDC
Verified
RANDHOST
Web Hosting
Estonian-run VPS host publishing per-coin network lists — USDC on Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Polygon and Solana — with servers in Lisbon, Lagos and Johannesburg.
USDCUSDT
EthereumBNB Chain +7 networks
Verified
RareSkills
Education
Advanced Solidity, ZK and Rust bootcamps for working engineers, priced from about $2,000, with 2% off for paying in USDC or USDT.
USDCUSDT
Verified
Vultr
Cloud Hosting
Major independent cloud provider documenting three stablecoins by name — USDC, Paxos Dollar and Gemini dollar — through BitPay.
USDCUSDPGUSD
Verified
Vast.ai
Cloud Hosting
GPU rental marketplace selling prepaid compute credit, topped up in crypto through BitPay and Crypto.com — so USDC on Base by way of BitPay's list.
USDCUSDTDAI +4
EthereumBase +4 networks
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Every cell comes from the merchant's record. "Pairing not documented" means the merchant lists the coin and some networks but does not say which chain the coin runs on; confirm at checkout. Evidence dates are when an editor last read the merchant's own page.
| Merchant | Coins and networks | Payment route | Restrictions | Evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3DNS |
| Direct to the merchant | USDC on Optimism is the one stablecoin route the merchant names. The pricing page's "pay with any token from any chain" is a bridge-and-pay feature, not acceptance of USDC on other networks. +4 more | Documentation checked 2026-09-13 | Verified |
| Cherry Servers |
| Via CoinGate, BVNK | USDT was withdrawn on 1 April 2025 and is no longer accepted. +1 more | Documentation checked 2026-09-22 | Verified |
| Decodo |
| Via CoinGate | No USDT: Decodo's own table lists USDC and EURC as the stablecoins, matching CoinGate's list. +3 more | Documentation checked 2026-09-14 | Verified |
| Helius |
| Via Solana Subscriptions Program | USDC on Solana only. No other stablecoin and no other network — the documentation says so in one sentence. +3 more | Documentation checked 2026-09-13 | Verified |
| HOSTKEY |
| Via BitPay | Ethereum mainnet only for stablecoins, by the merchant's own statement. BitPay supports Base, Polygon and Solana elsewhere; HOSTKEY says it does not take them. +3 more | Documentation checked 2026-09-22 | Verified |
| IPRoyal |
| Payment route not published | Networks are not published for any of the accepted stablecoins. | Documentation checked 2026-09-05 | Verified |
| OpenRouter |
| Via Coinbase Commerce | None documented | Documentation checked 2026-08-30 | Verified |
| Proxy-Seller |
| Payment route not published | No network is named for USDT or USDC; the external payment system the FAQ mentions will show it. Read it before sending. +3 more | Documentation checked 2026-09-14 | Verified |
| RANDHOST |
| Payment route not published | Network lists differ by coin: USDC has no Tron or Avalanche option; USDT has no Base or Optimism option. Match the pair shown at checkout. +3 more | Documentation checked 2026-09-13 | Verified |
| RareSkills |
| Payment route not published | No network is named for USDC or USDT, and no processor. Admission is by application, so expect payment details to arrive after acceptance rather than at a cart. +2 more | Documentation checked 2026-09-13 | Verified |
| Vultr |
| Via BitPay | Crypto tops up account credit rather than paying an invoice directly. +1 more | Documentation checked 2026-09-22 | Verified |
| Vast.ai |
| Via BitPay, Crypto.com Pay | Prepaid credit only. Crypto buys a balance; it cannot be used for automatic top-ups, which are card-only. +2 more | Documentation checked 2026-09-12 | Payment availability may vary |
Developer tooling adopted stablecoin billing without much announcement, because for this audience it was never a statement — it was just a payment method that worked.
Why the fit is unusually good
Three things line up. The buyer is an individual with a wallet, not a company with a procurement process. The product is metered, so a prepaid balance is the natural billing unit rather than a compromise. And the customer base is global, which makes card acceptance genuinely unreliable in a way that companies selling into the US and EU rarely appreciate.
Operational reality for production use
If you run anything real on a stablecoin-billed service, the balance is now part of your infrastructure. Two habits make it safe:
Keep a buffer sized to your worst month, not your average one. Usage spikes are exactly when you cannot afford a suspension.
Wire the provider’s low-balance webhook or email into wherever your alerts already go. A billing email in a shared inbox is not monitoring.
The upside is that there is no card to expire, no issuer to decline a renewal, and no foreign-transaction fee on every invoice.
Settlement and invoices
Most providers issue a normal invoice for the top-up, denominated in dollars, which is what your accountant needs. The fact that it was settled in USDC is a line item, not an accounting problem — though the treatment does vary by jurisdiction, and it is worth a conversation with whoever files your returns before you move significant spend on-chain.
Developer Tools questions
Can I pay for API usage with stablecoins?
For a growing number of services, yes — usually by topping up a prepaid balance that metered usage draws against. Genuine pay-per-call on-chain settlement exists in a few crypto-native products but is not the norm.
Is stablecoin billing suitable for production workloads?
It can be, provided you keep a buffer in the balance and monitor it. The failure mode is a balance hitting zero and the service suspending, which is a worse outage than a declined card because there is no grace period to argue about. Treat balance monitoring as part of the runbook.