# Amazon — Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

- Company: Amazon (amazon.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-08T18:33:29+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/pay-per-inference-for-ai-agents-how-blockrun-and-incarna-use-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-payments/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17095-pay-per-inference-for-ai-agents-how-blockrun-and-incarna-use-amazon-bedrock
- Subject: Bedrock / Nova

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is a managed capability that lets AI agents pay for services on demand, such as model inference, with spending limits enforced at the infrastructure layer. The post describes how Incarna used it to let its agents pay BlockRun for model inference per request, cutting integration time from months to days.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/pay-per-inference-for-ai-agents-how-blockrun-and-incarna-use-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-payments/:

> AgentCore payments is a managed capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that builders can use to add payments to their agents in a few lines of code. It handles the payment protocol, connects to a wallet, signs the transaction, and enforces spending limits.

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