Alipay Launches AI Payment Processing Product to Help Businesses and OPCs Thrive in the Agentic Economy

New solution enables businesses to monetize services through AI agents

Alipay today launched a new AI payment processing product that enables businesses, large and small, including One Person Companies (OPCs) in the Chinese mainland, to receive payments seamlessly when autonomous AI agents, including OpenClaw-type agents, purchase their services.

This new product is being launched as AI agents are increasingly executing tasks on behalf of users, from booking travel and comparing prices, to allocating computing power and buying tokens. The product is available on Alipay’s website (https://aipay.alipay.com/).

With Alipay’s AI payment processing product, small and medium-sized businesses do not need to build complex payment or settlement systems. By simply onboarding their monetizable services, businesses can reach more customers and receive payment each time an AI agent purchases their service.

Bocha, an AI-powered search tool offering web search support for AI applications including DeepSeek, has already adopted Alipay’s AI payment processing product, transforming advanced web search capabilities into a standard, pay-per-use service. With daily API calls surpassing 30 million, Bocha has deployed its paid skill “bocha-web-search-a2m” on AI agents including Alipay Tbox and Hermes Agent.

After users install the skill on their AI agent, they can state their request. For example, “help me search for the latest AI technology report” – and the AI agent handles the rest. It will inform the user of the fee to access the paid web search, awaiting confirmation, then returning the search result once the user confirms payment via the Alipay AI Pay skill.

As core infrastructure, Alipay’s business-facing AI payment processing product helps unlock the potential of the agent economy for tens of millions of businesses. This innovation comes after Alipay launched its consumer-facing AI payment product Alipay AI Pay in 2025.

Alipay AI Pay is an AI-native payment solution that enables secure, seamless transactions through AI agents via voice command. Alipay AI Pay surpassed 100 million users in February 2026 and processed over 120 million transactions during the week of February 5-11, 2026, becoming the world’s first AI-native payment product to reach these milestones.

As agentic commerce grows in China, Alipay AI Pay has expanded across a range of use cases — from AI agents embedded in apps and mini programs for traditional retailers such as Luckin Coffee, to AI smart glasses such as Rokid’s, consumer-facing AI applications like Alibaba’s Qwen and OpenClaw-type AI agents.

About Alipay

As the world becomes increasingly digital, Alipay has evolved from a trusted e-wallet into an all-in-one digital platform for daily services, connecting more than one billion consumers to over 80 million merchants across China. Alipay offers users a secure, seamless mobile payment experience and integrates over 10,000 services across sectors like travel, healthcare, tourism, and entertainment. With digital tools like Alipay Tap!, mini-programs, lifestyle accounts, Alipay enables merchants, institutions, and independent software vendors (ISVs) to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness. In addition, Alipay is developing a new AI-driven open platform by integrating AI agents to deliver smarter, more personalized services to its users as well as facilitating the digital transformation of the service sector.

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