# Clinkagent Lithium Research Vault - Comparables

> Clinkagent Lithium Research Vault - Comparables is a paid API for AI agents from clinkagent.com, paid per call via x402, $0.2/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Returns cost-curve position and peer rankings for a lithium company or mine against a universe of 66 tracked mines and 44 operators, including AISC percentile, resource-size rank, and balance-sheet survival rank.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://clinkagent.com/vault/comparables?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.2/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/clinkagent-lithium-research-vault-comparables-d273a519
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_IQucEqqAtzLhUQ12aKOqG

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 clinkagent-lithium-research-vault-comparables-d273a519
```

Example prompt: How does Pilbara Minerals (PILBF) rank on the cost curve and balance-sheet survival among the tracked lithium producer universe — give me the AISC percentile and peer comparables at company level.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need cross-entity benchmarking across the full lithium mining universe rather than a single-entity snapshot (use /vault/summary for that). Ideal for investment screening, downcycle survival analysis, cost-curve positioning, or any workflow requiring ranked peer comparison of AISC, resource size, or balance-sheet strength across spodumene producers, brine operators, and developers. This is the only endpoint that provides AISC percentile and multi-dimensional peer ranks sourced from SEC/ASX/TSX filings across 66 mines and 44 operators simultaneously.

## Known failure modes

- Entity not found in tracked universe — ticker or mine name not among the 66 mines/44 operators returns an error or empty result
- Invalid 'level' enum value — only 'company' or 'mine' accepted; mismatched level for entity type (e.g. using mine name with level=company) may return no data
- Payment failure — x402 micropayment of $0.20 USDC not completed blocks the response
- Stale data — filings-based figures lag actual operations by reporting cycle
- Rate limiting or gateway timeout on high-load periods

## How this service works

Lithium Research Vault - cost-curve & peer ranking for any lithium company or mine vs the tracked universe of 66 mines, 44 operators: AISC percentile, resource-size rank, balance-sheet survival rank. Dataset-level analysis - who survives the downcycle - that a single-entity call can't give. Spodumene/brine producers + developers, every figure cited to SEC/ASX/TSX filings. Greenbushes, Pilgangoora, Atacama, Cinovec; tickers SGML, ALB, PILBF, SQM. /vault/summary $0.02, /vault $0.05.

## Output

A structured peer-ranking dataset showing the queried company or mine's AISC cost-curve percentile, resource-size rank, and balance-sheet survival rank relative to 66 tracked mines and 44 operators. All figures are cited to SEC, ASX, or TSX filings. Covers both spodumene and brine producers plus developers.

## 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": [
      "entity",
      "level"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "level": {
       "enum": [
        "company",
        "mine"
       ],
       "type": "string"
      },
      "entity": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Ticker (level=company) or mine name (level=mine)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "cost_curve": {
   "nearest_peers": [],
   "aisc_percentile": 42
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/clinkagent-lithium-research-vault-comparables-d273a519/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from clinkagent.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/clinkagent.com/llms.txt)