# Austria Basket Cost Calculator

> Austria Basket Cost Calculator is a paid API for AI agents from teuerung.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).

Calculates the estimated total cost of a custom grocery basket in Austria using official scanner-data price bands (Q1, median, Q3) and prior-year median comparison for up to 25 products.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://teuerung.halowerk.com/v1/austria-basket-cost?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/austria-basket-cost-calculator-4ef99236
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nhLZ0VWxF3aYV3Vk8pEGC

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 austria-basket-cost-calculator-4ef99236 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Calculate the official Austrian basket cost for 2 units of Langkornreis and 1 unit of Vollmilch for September 2026 — give me the median total plus the Q1 and Q3 bounds, and how that compares to last year.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need official Austrian grocery basket cost estimates based on amtliche Preisbänder (scanner-data price bands), especially when aggregating multiple products into a total basket cost with Q1/Q3 uncertainty bounds and prior-year comparison. Prefer over generic price lookup endpoints when you need statistically grounded Austrian food price ranges rather than individual product lookup or live retail prices.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown product name or ID returns an error or excludes the item
- Period not yet published returns an error or falls back to latest available month
- Quantity exceeding 1000 per item is rejected with validation error
- More than 25 items in basket results in a validation error
- Product with no available scanner data for the requested period may return null price bands
- Malformed period format (not YYYY-MM) returns a schema validation error

## How this service works

Austrian basket cost for up to 25 products times published reference-quantity multiples; sum of medians plus Q1/Q3 bounds and prior-year median comparison. Example: items [{product:"Langkornreis",quantity:2}], period 2026-09. Amtliche Preisbänder, kein Ladenpreis. Bounds are sums, not empirical basket quartiles.

## Output

Returns the sum of median prices across all requested products (basket median total), the sum of Q1 prices (lower bound), the sum of Q3 prices (upper bound), and the sum of prior-year medians for year-over-year comparison. All figures are based on official Austrian scanner-data price bands per published reference quantity, not actual shop prices. Bounds are additive sums, not empirical basket quartiles.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "items": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
     "product",
     "quantity"
    ],
    "properties": {
     "product": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 100,
      "minLength": 2,
      "description": "Original Preisradar product ID or exact German product name; for example 001900 or Langkornreis."
     },
     "quantity": {
      "type": "number",
      "maximum": 1000,
      "description": "Number of the product’s published reference quantities, not inferred kg/pieces.",
      "exclusiveMinimum": 0
     }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false
   },
   "maxItems": 25,
   "minItems": 1
  },
  "period": {
   "type": "string",
   "pattern": "^\\d{4}-(0[1-9]|1[0-2])$",
   "description": "Common calendar reporting month, YYYY-MM, for example 2026-09. Omit for latest published month."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/austria-basket-cost-calculator-4ef99236/health.json
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