# august.services Text Summarization

> august.services Text Summarization is a paid API for AI agents from api-v3qhpbwutp.august.services, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Summarizes long text to a target length, returning a one-line abstract and a list of key points

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api-v3qhpbwutp.august.services/v1/summarize
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/august-services-text-summarization-6c134d32
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DvTB5SQo_jBBdFsVE0asw

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 august-services-text-summarization-6c134d32 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you summarize this quarterly earnings report down to a one-line abstract and the most important bullet points? Here's the full text: [pasted report text]

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to compress a long document into a structured abstract-plus-bullets format before feeding it into a reasoning pipeline or presenting it to a user. It is especially useful when context window size is a constraint, when you need both a headline summary and enumerated takeaways in one call, and when cost matters — at $0.02 per call it is priced near market median for this commodity capability.

## Known failure modes

- Input text too short to meaningfully summarize — may return a trivial or empty key_points list
- Input text exceeds token or character limits — may return an error or truncated summary
- Highly technical or domain-specific text may produce vague or generic key points
- Non-English text behavior undefined — may return degraded output without explicit language handling
- Network timeout or service unavailability returns a non-200 status

## How this service works

Summarise long text to a target length, returning both a one-line abstract and the key points as a list. Commodity capability, priced near the market median because it costs us only electricity — useful for agents that need to compress a document before reasoning over it.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with two fields: 'abstract' (a single sentence capturing the core message) and 'key_points' (an array of concise bullet-point strings covering the most important takeaways from the input text).

## More

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