# AgentFund US CPI Inflation Data

> AgentFund US CPI Inflation Data is a paid API for AI agents from x402.agentfund.net, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns US Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.agentfund.net/x402/bls_cpi
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentfund-us-cpi-inflation-data-1ad0fc8f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tcOmXm_jRJl97OHNr1aUf

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 agentfund-us-cpi-inflation-data-1ad0fc8f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What is the latest US CPI inflation reading? Pull the most recent Consumer Price Index data from BLS so I can see the current year-over-year inflation rate.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need programmatic, on-demand access to official US CPI inflation data from the BLS, especially in agentic workflows that require micro-payment-gated, real-time economic data access via x402 protocol. Prefer over web scraping or manual BLS lookups when building automated financial or economic analysis pipelines.

## Known failure modes

- Payment failure: insufficient USDC balance or x402 payment not accepted
- BLS data unavailable: upstream BLS API outage or maintenance window
- Empty response body: no parameters passed may return default or error
- Rate limiting: too many requests in a short period
- Stale data: BLS releases data on a fixed schedule; data may not reflect the very latest release immediately

## How this service works

US CPI Inflation

## Output

Returns US CPI inflation data sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, likely including index values, percentage changes (month-over-month and/or year-over-year), and relevant time period information such as the reference month and release date.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
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 ],
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   ],
   "properties": {
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     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
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     "type": "string"
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   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
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    "type": {
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    "example": {
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   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "asOf": "2026-07",
  "core": {
   "index": 337.133,
   "momPercent": 0.3,
   "yoyPercent": 3.1
  },
  "headline": {
   "index": 333.918,
   "momPercent": 0.2,
   "yoyPercent": 2.9
  },
  "periodName": "July 2026"
 }
}
```

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