# Brazil Economy Overview (BCB Macro Snapshot)

> Brazil Economy Overview (BCB Macro Snapshot) is a paid API for AI agents from brasil-dados-api.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a single-call macro snapshot of Brazil's key economic indicators — SELIC rate, CDI, IPCA inflation (monthly and 12-month), and official PTAX USD/BRL — sourced from the Central Bank of Brazil.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://brasil-dados-api.onrender.com/brazil/economy/overview
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/brazil-economy-overview-bcb-macro-snapshot-2035da19
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_5A5bkqJQKxRzSLG9vLiFp

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 brazil-economy-overview-bcb-macro-snapshot-2035da19
```

Example prompt: What are Brazil's current macro indicators — SELIC rate, CDI, IPCA inflation both monthly and over 12 months, and the official PTAX USD/BRL rate from the Central Bank?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a single, unified call for Brazil's core macro indicators (SELIC, CDI, IPCA, PTAX) without having to query the BCB API directly or stitch together multiple data sources. Ideal for financial dashboards, EM research pipelines, FX pricing tools, and compliance snapshots requiring official Central Bank of Brazil figures. Prefer over raw BCB endpoints when simplicity and low cost matter more than real-time tick-level precision.

## Known failure modes

- BCB upstream unavailable — API may return 503 or stale data if Central Bank data feed is down
- Render cold start latency — hosted on render.com free tier, first request may time out after inactivity
- No query parameters accepted — sending unexpected params returns error or ignores them
- Data may lag BCB publication schedule — intraday freshness not guaranteed

## How this service works

Brazil macro snapshot in one call: SELIC policy rate, CDI, IPCA inflation (monthly and 12-month), official PTAX USD/BRL. Source: Central Bank of Brazil (BCB).

## Output

A JSON object containing Brazil's current key macro indicators: SELIC overnight policy rate, CDI interbank rate, IPCA monthly inflation percentage, IPCA 12-month cumulative inflation percentage, and the official PTAX USD/BRL spot exchange rate, all sourced from BCB.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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