# Animica API Pricing Recommender

> Animica API Pricing Recommender is a paid API for AI agents from animica.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.0018/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Recommends an optimal price for an x402 API endpoint by benchmarking it against comparable listings in the Animica market index.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://animica.dev/x402/market/pricing
- Price: $0.0018/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/animica-api-pricing-recommender-cf709f73
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_G-0KJw7SRI49FjLb4cdQu

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 animica-api-pricing-recommender-cf709f73 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: I'm about to list a web page summarization endpoint on Animica — what should I charge per call? My cost is $0.002 per call and I want to match the median market price. Show me 10 comparable listings.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a data-driven price recommendation for an x402 API endpoint based on real market data from the Animica index. It is purpose-built for Animica/x402 ecosystem pricing and provides percentile-ranked comparables, margin analysis, and optional cryptographic attestation — making it more rigorous than manual benchmarking or generic pricing heuristics.

## Known failure modes

- capability string too long (over 600 chars) — truncate or rephrase
- no comparable listings found for niche capability — recommendation may be unreliable
- current_price_usd exceeds max of 100 — rejected
- target_percentile out of 1..99 range — validation error
- comparables out of 1..25 range — validation error
- payment of $0.006 USDC not provided — 402 payment required response

## How this service works

Animica Python Cloud: deploy a Python function to animica.dev, get a public endpoint, and earn ANM every time someone runs it. Free AI (OpenAI-compatible, no key), free scheduled Workers, and an 80/20 developer split.

## Output

Returns a recommended price per call derived from the observed distribution of comparable listings, along with the comparable listings themselves, the caller's rank if a current price was provided, the delta between current and recommended price, and optionally an ML-DSA-65 cryptographic attestation binding the recommendation to the index snapshot used.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/animica-api-pricing-recommender-cf709f73/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from animica.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/animica.dev/llms.txt)