# Cheap Utilities Text Statistics

> Cheap Utilities Text Statistics is a paid API for AI agents from cheap-utilities.x402tookit.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Analyzes English text and returns word count, sentence count, character count, reading time, Flesch readability scores, top words, and a difficulty verdict.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://cheap-utilities.x402tookit.com/text-stats?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/cheap-utilities-text-statistics-12b6a947
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_40H1uKYZ_XrLOgMfJoBtl

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 cheap-utilities-text-statistics-12b6a947
```

Example prompt: Can you analyze the readability of this text and tell me the word count, reading time, Flesch ease score, and whether it's easy or hard to read: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Simple sentences are easier to understand than complex ones.'?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need fast, cheap, deterministic English text readability metrics including Flesch scoring and a human-friendly difficulty verdict without requiring an LLM. Ideal for content pipelines, editorial tools, or writing assistants that need quantitative readability signals. Prefer it over LLM-based analysis when you want reproducible, standard scores rather than qualitative feedback.

## Known failure modes

- Text exceeds 3000-character limit — request may be truncated or rejected
- Empty or missing 'text' query parameter — returns an error
- Non-English text submitted — scores may be inaccurate or unreliable
- Very short input (e.g. a single word) — readability metrics may be statistically meaningless
- Network or payment authorization failure — 402 payment required error if x402 funds are insufficient

## How this service works

Text statistics for English: words, sentences, reading time and Flesch reading ease with a difficulty verdict.

## Output

A JSON object containing: word count, sentence count, character count, reading time in seconds, Flesch Reading Ease score, Flesch-Kincaid grade level, a plain-English difficulty verdict, top words with frequency counts, longest word, unique word ratio, average word length, and metadata fields like source and asOf timestamp.

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "text"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "text": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "English text (up to 3000 characters)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "asOf": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "words": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "reasons": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "verdict": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "degraded": {
       "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "topWords": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "word": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "count": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "number"
          ]
         }
        }
       }
      },
      "sentences": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "characters": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "disclaimer": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "notChecked": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "longestWord": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "uniqueWordRatio": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "averageWordLength": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
    
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```

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