Mastercard Launches Agent Pay for Machines for Autonomous AI Transactions

Mastercard

Jun 13, 2026

Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines, a service enabling programmatic, always-on payments between AI agents. It provides credentialing, permissioning, and multi-rail settlement across cards, accounts, and stablecoins at machine speed. The service supports high-frequency, low-value transactions and launches with over 30 partners, including Stripe, Coinbase, Cloudflare, and Adyen, to provide infrastructure for autonomous, agent-driven commerce.

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@Mastercard3d ago

As AI agents begin to act, payments move into the background — at machine speed and massive scale. Today we’re introducing Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines — bringing structure, governance, and trust to this new class of payments. Launching with 30+ partners to bring this to https://t.co/X4zmXIg7FV

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