# Animica x402 Analytics Market Endpoint

> Animica x402 Analytics Market Endpoint is a paid API for AI agents from animica.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.00288/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Analyzes the pay-per-call API marketplace indexed by Animica, returning price distribution, demand signals, callability stats, and an AI-written narrative for a given market segment.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://animica.dev/x402/analytics/market
- Price: $0.00288/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/animica-x402-analytics-market-endpoint-f218ca92
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_XyPx5JhYbs1uEbE485m2-

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-x402-analytics-market-endpoint-f218ca92 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Give me a market analysis of the weather forecast data segment on the Animica x402 marketplace — show me the top 5 services, restrict to the Base network, and include the AI-written narrative.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured market intelligence about the x402 pay-per-call API economy specifically — price benchmarking, segment saturation analysis, or discovery of callable services within a niche. It is distinct from general web search or API directories because it returns quantitative price distributions and demand signals derived from the live Animica index, plus an AI-authored narrative. Prefer it over raw search when you need median/percentile pricing or trend signals rather than just a list of APIs.

## Known failure modes

- Empty segment match if the segment description is too narrow or misspelled — returns matched=0 with no examples
- Network filter returns no results if the specified network has no indexed services
- Invalid top value (outside 0–25) may cause a validation error
- Narrative generation may be slow or unavailable under load, returning null for the narrative field
- Stale freshness scores if the index has not been recently crawled

## How this service works

Statistical analysis of any segment of the x402 economy, computed over a merged index of Coinbase Bazaar and 402index overlaid with our own unpaid 402 probes. Returns the full price distribution (min, p10, p25, median, p75, p90, max, mean), demand discounted by payer concentration, what share of the segment can actually be invoked, the network and asset split, host concentration, liveness, and — once history exists — the trend. Every figure is computed in code from named rows; the interpretation is written by Animica's own AICF inference network and every sentence containing a number not in the computed facts is deleted before delivery. Directories publish rows; this publishes the distribution.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with: segment metadata (matched count, coverage floor, applied filters), full price distribution (min, p10, p25, median, p75, p90, max, mean), demand signal, callability ratio, verification stats, supported networks and assets, host count, freshness and trend indicators, up to N example services, an AI-generated narrative interpretation, and inference provenance/grounding details.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "top": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "how many example services to return, 0-25 (default 10)"
  },
  "network": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "restrict to one settlement network, e.g. \"base\""
  },
  "segment": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "words describing the segment to analyse, e.g. \"weather forecast data\". Omit to analyse the whole indexed economy"
  },
  "narrative": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "description": "include the AICF-written interpretation (default true)"
  },
  "max_price_usd": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "restrict to services at or below this price per call"
  },
  "require_callable": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "description": "restrict to services that publish a call spec (default false)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

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

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/animica-x402-analytics-market-endpoint-f218ca92/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)