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Clink adds Mastercard Agent Pay, so its AI agents can pay on both major card networks

Clink adds Mastercard Agent Pay, so its AI agents can pay on both major card networks
Image: The Paypers

The startup already supported Visa Intelligent Commerce and now offers both frameworks to agent developers through one integration.

Source: The Paypers

AI agent payments company Clink has added support for Mastercard Agent Pay, The Paypers reports. Clink already supported Visa Intelligent Commerce, so agents built on its platform can now pay over both major card networks. The company is targeting developers building personal and workplace agents that make purchases on behalf of users.

Under Agent Pay, agents check out with tokenized credentials rather than raw card numbers. According to Clink, users set spending caps and rules for their agents, and every transaction can be traced back to the user who approved it. Clink says payments run over the card networks directly rather than through workarounds.

Mastercard launched Agent Pay in April 2025, built around Agentic Tokens scoped to specific agents with programmable spending controls, and requires agents to be verified before they pay. It enabled all US Mastercard cardholders for agent-initiated transactions in late 2025. Visa introduced Visa Intelligent Commerce in April 2025 and in June 2026 announced its integration into OpenAI experiences.

Read the full article at The Paypers

Our take

Clink offers agent builders one integration for both card networks' agent frameworks, which use tokenized credentials rather than raw card numbers.

  • Ask your processor how it identifies agent-initiated payments from Agent Pay and Visa Intelligent Commerce.
  • Check how disputes work when an agent buys within a user's cap but the user objects.
  • Watch for adoption figures, which the report does not give.

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Key takeaways

  1. Clink now supports both Mastercard Agent Pay and Visa Intelligent Commerce
  2. Agent Pay uses tokenized credentials and requires agent verification before payment
  3. Mastercard enabled all US cardholders for agent payments in late 2025

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  4. Mastercard calls one-time virtual cards for AI agents a stopgap it won't support long term
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