I built 116 AI tools into one API — and added crypto payments

For the past few months I've been building AI agents that need to call a lot of different APIs: web search, news, weather, stock prices, crypto data, email validation, image generation... Every one has a different key, different rate limit, different response format. It's a mess. So I built Arch Tools — 116 AI tools behind a single API key. What it is One endpoint. One key. Every tool normalized to the same response format. curl -X POST https://archtools.dev/v1/tools/web-search \ -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"query": "latest AI news", "limit": 5}' import requests response = requests.post( "https://archtools.dev/v1/tools/crypto-price", headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_KEY"}, json={"symbol": "BTC"} ) print(response.json()) Same pattern. Every time. Whether you're calling web search, sentiment analysis, WHOIS lookup, or barcode scanning. The x402 twist HTTP status code 402 (Payment Required) has been in the spec since 1991 but was marked "reserved for f