# Agent402 UK Currency Converter (ECB Rates)

> Agent402 UK Currency Converter (ECB Rates) is a paid API for AI agents from agent402.co.uk, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Converts a monetary amount from one currency to another using European Central Bank (ECB) exchange rates.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agent402.co.uk/v1/data/fx/convert
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent402-uk-currency-converter-ecb-rates-27193f8c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_17snICYxnYYviESl_hFZy

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agent402-uk-currency-converter-ecb-rates-27193f8c
```

Example prompt: Convert 750 GBP to EUR using ECB rates and tell me how much I'd get.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a reliable, ECB-backed currency conversion without managing your own FX rate feeds. It is ideal for financial calculations, invoice reconciliation, and reporting that require official ECB rates rather than real-time market rates. Prefer this over generic FX APIs when operating in a UK/European regulatory context where ECB rates are the reference standard, and when you need a simple per-call micropayment model with no subscription overhead.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported or invalid currency code returns an error (ECB only covers ~30 major currencies)
- Missing required query parameters (amount, from, to) result in a 400 bad request
- Non-numeric or malformed amount string causes a validation error
- ECB rate feed unavailability may result in a 503 or stale-rate error
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance blocks the request at the x402 layer

## How this service works

Don't burn tokens on deterministic work. Go/no-go jobs first: payout preflight, text firewall (PII/secrets), budget check — then rails, calendars, finmath. x402 USDC on Base. UK + global. agent402.co.uk — not agent402.tools. $0.001–$0.002 USDC on Base. No API keys.

## Output

Returns the converted monetary amount in the target currency, along with the ECB exchange rate applied and the source/target currency codes used in the conversion.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "amount",
      "from",
      "to"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "to": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "To currency"
      },
      "from": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "From currency"
      },
      "amount": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Amount to convert"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "to": "EUR",
  "from": "USD",
  "rate": 0.92,
  "amount": 100,
  "source": "frankfurter.app (ECB)",
  "converted": 92
 }
}
```

## More

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