# EIA Natural Gas Data — Henry Hub Price & Storage

> EIA Natural Gas Data — Henry Hub Price & Storage is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).

Returns US natural gas market data from EIA: Henry Hub daily spot price or weekly working gas in underground storage, with latest value, period-over-period change, and short history.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://payai.agentstools.dev/energy/natural-gas?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/eia-natural-gas-data-henry-hub-price-storage-fa3060c8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_46LvtqlZOOpzxWJoJNs1W

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 eia-natural-gas-data-henry-hub-price-storage-fa3060c8
```

Example prompt: What's the latest Henry Hub natural gas spot price from the EIA, and how has it changed over the last 14 days?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative US natural gas market data directly from the EIA — either Henry Hub daily spot prices or weekly underground storage figures — with built-in change calculations and history. Prefer this over scraping EIA.gov directly or using generic financial data APIs when you need clean, structured, cited output with minimal integration effort and per-call pricing.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid metric enum value returns validation error
- Invalid region enum value returns validation error
- history parameter out of range (1–120) returns validation error
- EIA upstream data temporarily unavailable may return 503 or stale data
- Payment not included or insufficient returns 402 Payment Required

## How this service works

US natural gas data from the EIA: Henry Hub spot price (daily) and weekly working gas in underground storage (Bcf, Lower 48 or region). Returns latest value, change vs the prior period (week-over-week for storage), and short history. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration.

## Output

Returns the latest value for the requested metric (Henry Hub price in $/MMBtu or working gas storage in Bcf), the change versus the prior period (day-over-day for price, week-over-week for storage), and a configurable history of recent data points. Storage results can be scoped to the Lower 48 or a specific US region (East, Midwest, South Central, Mountain, Pacific).

## 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": {
      "metric": {
       "enum": [
        "henry_hub",
        "storage"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Henry Hub spot price or working-gas storage (default henry_hub)"
      },
      "region": {
       "enum": [
        "lower_48",
        "east",
        "midwest",
        "south_central",
        "mountain",
        "pacific"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Storage region (default lower_48)"
      },
      "history": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 120,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Number of recent data points to include"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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