# Central Bank Policy Rates

> Central Bank Policy Rates is a paid API for AI agents from bess-x402.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Returns current policy interest rates for ~40 central banks (Fed, ECB, BoE, BoJ, PBoC, SNB, RBI, etc.) sourced from the BIS, with the date of the latest rate change, sorted highest first, filterable by country or currency code.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://bess-x402.onrender.com/v1/finance/central-bank-rates?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/central-bank-policy-rates-b91d8665
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ZdxM-2O1o78KRB1ON9Hg0

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 central-bank-policy-rates-b91d8665
```

Example prompt: What are the current policy interest rates for all major central banks? Filter it to just the US, Eurozone, UK, and Japan if you can.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, BIS-sourced policy rate data across multiple central banks in a single call. Prefer it over web scraping or general search when you need structured, filterable rate data with change dates. Especially useful for macroeconomic analysis, fixed income models, FX research, or any workflow that needs to compare monetary policy stances across countries or currency blocs.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized country/currency code returns an empty result set or error
- BIS source data delay may mean rates lag by hours after a surprise central bank decision
- Some smaller central banks may not be represented in the ~40-bank dataset
- Network timeout or 402 payment failure if USDC micropayment is not properly handled

## How this service works

Current policy interest rates of about 40 central banks (Fed, ECB, BoE, BoJ, PBoC, SNB, RBI...) with the date of the latest value, highest first, from the BIS. Filter by country or currency code.

## Output

A list of central bank entries, each containing the bank name, country/currency code, current policy interest rate, and the date of the most recent rate decision, sorted from highest to lowest rate. Filterable to a subset of ~40 banks by passing country (e.g. US, XM) or currency (e.g. USD, EUR) codes.

## 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",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "countries": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Comma-separated country (US, XM) or currency (USD, EUR) codes"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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