SpecialX vs ARIA Protocol

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SpecialX compared with ARIA Protocol
Detail	SpecialX	ARIA Protocol
What it does	Give your agent a whole company with one CLI for building stores, generating media, publishing to social and running experiments	Open protocol for AI agent identity, DNS-anchored and post-quantum native, governed by a nonprofit
Stage	Not given	Startup
Founded	Not given	2026
Based in	Not given	MX
Pricing model	Paid	Open source
Pricing	One-time credit top-ups: 170 credits for $10 (up to 680 images or 34 videos), 380 credits for $20 (up to 1,520 images or 76 videos), 840 credits for $40 (up to 3,360 images or 168 videos), 1,700 credits for $80 (up to 6,800 images or 340 videos). Per-model pricing: GPT Image 2 at $0.12/run, Nano Ban	Free to use. L0 credentials issued today. L1 enabled in agent.bar demonstration. L2 and L3 specified but not yet issued.
Key features	Generate AI images with multiple frontier models (GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro, Grok Imagine, others) Generate AI videos from text up to 30 seconds with native audio Create and deploy stores with products, checkout and offer pages Publish and schedule content across all social platforms Run Meta ads and Facebook/Instagram campaigns Workflow automation with live and headless options Community platforms with courses, events and leaderboards A/B testing and site variant experiments	W3C Verifiable Credentials (AID format) Four trust levels (L0-L3) with progressive verification DNS anchoring starting at L1 ML-DSA-65 + Ed25519 composite signatures ARIA AP for signed requests and receipts Append-only Trust Ledger with credential lifecycle events Revocation capability with signed status lists Public REST API verification endpoint TypeScript SDK for credential verification
What makes it different	All 268 agent actions unified behind one login with single credit currency Pay per run instead of per-seat subscriptions with credits that never expire Built for agent autonomy with machine-readable output and rollback capabilities Access via CLI, REST API and MCP for maximum integration flexibility Frontier AI models in one place with published per-model pricing	Post-quantum native from launch, not a migration plan Governed by nonprofit to prevent capture Complements existing protocols without replacing them L0 credentials issued and verifiable today
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	Not checked yet no change since last check	23 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	0	7
Citation Flow (Majestic)	20	20
Referring domains (Majestic)	27	10

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