# Elements Live Lab Quote

> Elements Live Lab Quote is a paid API for AI agents from www.elements-live.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Returns estimated paper volume by year and research community plus a binding price per deliverable for a given academic literature filter query.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://www.elements-live.com/v1/lab/quote?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/elements-live-lab-quote-6dc79aa4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_2FRkd6_Ugb6rxYLVqNNg9

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 elements-live-lab-quote-6dc79aa4
```

Example prompt: Can you get me a quote from Elements Live for a literature query like '+graphene -oxide "battery anode" (lithium OR sodium) year:2018..2024' — I want to see how many matching papers exist by year and how much it'll cost to pull that data?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to estimate the scope and cost of a scientific literature data pull before committing to purchase — especially when working with complex Boolean-style filter queries involving must/exclude terms, exact phrases, OR clauses, wildcards, or year ranges. Prefer this over direct data endpoints when budget validation or volume sizing is the first step in a research workflow.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required query parameter 'q' returns an error
- Malformed filter syntax (e.g. unclosed quotes, invalid year range format) may return zero results or a parsing error
- Year range outside available data coverage returns empty volume
- Very broad queries may return unexpectedly high volumes or pricing
- Payment not processed (x402 flow incomplete) results in 402 response before quote is returned

## How this service works

Lab quote: a filter query (+must -exclude "topic" (a OR b) wild* year:a..b) in; matching paper volume by year and research community, and a binding price per deliverable out.

## Output

Returns a breakdown of matching paper volume by year and research community for the supplied filter query, along with a binding price per deliverable — effectively a cost estimate and data-availability snapshot before committing to a full data purchase.

## 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": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "+must -exclude \"exact topic\" (a OR b) wild* year:2015..2026"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "query",
      "matches",
      "matches_estimated",
      "by_year",
      "by_year_estimated",
      "top_communities",
      "communities_sampled_papers",
      "broader",
      "depths",
      "data_version",
      "quote_id",
      "expires_at",
      "notes"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "notes": {
       "type": "object"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "object",
       "required": [
        "canonical",
        "readable",
        "ignored"
       ]
      },
      "depths": {
       "type": "object"
      },
      "broader": {
       "type": "array"
      },
      "by_year": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
         "year",
         "papers"
        ]
       }
      },
      "matches": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "quote_id": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "expires_at": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "data_version": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "top_communities": {
       "type": "array"
      },
      "by_year_estimated": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "matches_estimated": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "communities_sampled_papers": {
       "type": "integer"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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