# Alpha Vantage Earnings Call Transcript (via Locus x402)

> Alpha Vantage Earnings Call Transcript (via Locus x402) is a paid API for AI agents from alphavantage.x402.paywithlocus.com, paid per call via x402, $0.008/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves the earnings call transcript for a given stock ticker and fiscal quarter, billed per-call via x402 micropayment.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://alphavantage.x402.paywithlocus.com/alphavantage/earnings-call-transcript
- Price: $0.008/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/alpha-vantage-earnings-call-transcript-via-locus-x402-36ecc9da
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_3WkijX_4SH04umO5IFmPM

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 alpha-vantage-earnings-call-transcript-via-locus-x402-36ecc9da -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the earnings call transcript for NVIDIA (NVDA) for Q4 2023 so I can review what management said about data center revenue and guidance.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the raw text of an earnings call transcript for a specific publicly traded company and fiscal quarter, especially in pay-per-use agent workflows where you want to avoid subscription-based data providers. Ideal for ad-hoc financial research, NLP pipelines processing executive commentary, and competitive intelligence tasks where only a handful of transcripts are needed per session.

## Known failure modes

- Transcript not yet available for the requested quarter (too recent or not yet published)
- Invalid ticker symbol returns an error or empty result
- Malformed quarter format (not YYYYQN) causes a validation error
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance via x402 blocks the request
- Alpha Vantage upstream outage results in a timeout or 5xx response

## How this service works

Locus public pay-per-use API

## Output

Returns the full text of the earnings call transcript for the specified company and quarter, typically including prepared remarks from executives and a Q&A session with analysts, sourced from Alpha Vantage's financial data.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "symbol": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "quarter": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {},
  "payment": {
   "scheme": "exact",
   "settledUsdc": "0.001000",
   "authorizedMaxUsdc": "0.001000"
  },
  "request": {
   "id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
   "statusUrl": "/requests/00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000"
  },
  "success": true
 }
}
```

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