# EU HICP Inflation Rate API (Eurostat)

> EU HICP Inflation Rate API (Eurostat) is a paid API for AI agents from x402-datashop-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns monthly HICP inflation as annual rate of change (%) for EU/Eurozone geographies and COICOP categories from official Eurostat data

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-datashop-production.up.railway.app/v1/eu/inflation
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/eu-hicp-inflation-rate-api-eurostat-b9e3a27d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_2iLkpR-Kth4-FbTw_Nxn0

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-hicp-inflation-rate-api-eurostat-b9e3a27d
```

Example prompt: What's the official Eurostat HICP inflation rate for the Euro Area over the last 12 months — show me headline all-items (CP00) figures?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need official, authoritative EU/Eurozone inflation statistics from Eurostat — especially for headline HICP, food inflation, or energy inflation across Euro Area, EU27, or individual member states. Prefer this over central bank or third-party sources when regulatory or policy accuracy is required. Best suited for economic reporting, financial analysis, or macroeconomic monitoring tasks.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid geo code returns an error (e.g. unsupported or misspelled Eurostat geo identifier)
- Invalid COICOP code returns an error (e.g. unrecognized item category)
- last_n outside range 1-24 may return an error or be clamped
- Eurostat source data unavailable causes upstream error
- Data not yet published for the most recent month may result in missing latest observation

## How this service works

Monthly HICP inflation as annual rate of change (%) from Eurostat dataset prc_hicp_manr, the official primary source. Query: ?geo=EA|FR|DE|EU27_2020 &coicop=CP00 (all items) | CP011 (food) | CP045 (energy) &last_n=12 (1-24 months, default 1). Returns date-sorted observations plus the latest print; 24h cache. Data: Eurostat, CC BY 4.0.

## Output

A date-sorted list of monthly HICP annual rate-of-change observations (%) for the requested geography and COICOP category, plus the most recent print. Covers up to 24 months of history. Data is sourced from Eurostat dataset prc_hicp_manr, cached for 24 hours, and licensed CC BY 4.0.

## 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": {
      "geo": {
       "type": "string",
       "default": "EA",
       "description": "Eurostat geo code (EA, FR, DE, IT, EU27_2020...)"
      },
      "coicop": {
       "type": "string",
       "default": "CP00",
       "description": "COICOP item code (CP00 all items, CP011 food, CP045 energy)"
      },
      "last_n": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 1,
       "description": "Number of most recent months (1-24)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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