# EU Consumer Confidence Indicator

> EU Consumer Confidence Indicator is a paid API for AI agents from api.vextorium.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-16).

Returns the seasonally-adjusted consumer confidence balance indicator for a European country, the EU, or the euro area, or a cross-country ranking if no country is specified, sourced from European Commission surveys via Eurostat.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.vextorium.com/confianza-consumidor-ue-pago?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/eu-consumer-confidence-indicator-a30b1a7d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_AMvVlQLqlAX9-2mJ8QAwK

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 eu-consumer-confidence-indicator-a30b1a7d -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current consumer confidence indicator for Spain? Show me the trend for the last 6 months using Eurostat data.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need official, seasonally-adjusted consumer confidence balance data for European countries sourced directly from the European Commission via Eurostat. It is ideal for macroeconomic research, economic dashboard enrichment, investment analysis, or any task requiring a standardised EU-wide sentiment indicator. Prefer it over scraping national statistics sites when you need harmonised, comparable data across multiple EU member states or the euro area aggregate.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported country ISO code returns an error or empty result
- Requesting data for too many months beyond available history may yield sparse series
- If Eurostat has not yet published the latest month, the most recent period may lag by several weeks
- Missing required 'input' wrapper in request body causes a validation error
- Passing an unrecognized country group code (not EU or EA) may return no data

## How this service works

Consumer confidence indicator (balance, seasonally adjusted) for any European country, the EU or the euro area; without a country, a ranking. Below 0 = more pessimists than optimists. European Commission surveys via Eurostat.

## Output

A JSON object containing the country ISO code, country name, a time series array of monthly confidence balance values (each with a period string and numeric confidence score), the most recent data point, the data source (Eurostat ei_bsco_m), and the last updated timestamp. When no country is specified, a cross-country ranking is returned instead.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "pais": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "ISO code (ES, DE, FR...), EU, EA or omit for a ranking of all countries"
  },
  "meses": {
   "type": "integer"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "pais": "ES",
  "serie": [
   {
    "periodo": "2026-04",
    "confianza": -6.2
   },
   {
    "periodo": "2026-05",
    "confianza": -6.3
   },
   {
    "periodo": "2026-06",
    "confianza": -5.2
   },
   {
    "periodo": "2026-07",
    "confianza": -4.6
   },
   {
    "periodo": "2026-08",
    "confianza": -4.5
   },
   {
    "periodo": "2026-09",
    "confianza": -4.7
   }
  ],
  "fuente": "Eurostat (ei_bsco_m, encuestas de la Comisión Europea, CC BY 4.0)",
  "nombre": "Spain",
  "ultimo": {
   "periodo": "2026-09",
   "confianza": -4.7
  },
  "actualizado": "2026-09-29T11:00:00+0200"
 }
}
```

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