# EU Household Electricity Prices (Eurostat)

> EU Household Electricity Prices (Eurostat) is a paid API for AI agents from api.vextorium.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-15).

Returns average household electricity prices (2,500–5,000 kWh/year band) in EUR/kWh for European countries, either as a ranking of all countries or as half-yearly evolution for a single country, optionally with or without taxes, sourced from official Eurostat data.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/eu-electricity-prices?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/eu-household-electricity-prices-eurostat-25cdf37e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_F2OWon9D7wZWSZ7SVrTgK

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-household-electricity-prices-eurostat-25cdf37e -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Show me the current Eurostat household electricity price ranking for all European countries, including taxes, in EUR/kWh.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need official, Eurostat-sourced household electricity price data for European countries in EUR/kWh, specifically for the 2,500–5,000 kWh/year consumption band. It is ideal for EU energy cost comparisons, policy research, or financial modeling requiring authoritative half-yearly data. Prefer it over scraped or estimated sources when regulatory compliance or data provenance matters.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported ISO country code returns empty or error response
- Data may lag by one or two half-year reporting periods due to Eurostat publication schedule
- Missing required 'type', 'method', or 'bodyType' fields in the input wrapper causes a validation error
- Non-European or non-EU country codes (e.g. US, JP) are not supported and will return no results

## How this service works

Average household electricity price (2,500-5,000 kWh/year band) in EUR/kWh by European country, with or without taxes: ranking or half-yearly evolution of one country. Official Eurostat data.

## Output

A JSON object with a 'ranking' array of country entries (each with country ISO code, country name, reporting period, and EUR/kWh price), the Eurostat source citation, and a last-updated timestamp. When a specific country is queried, returns the half-yearly evolution for that country instead of a full ranking.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "taxes": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "description": "Include taxes (default true)"
  },
  "country": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "ISO code (ES, DE, FR...), EU, EA or omit for a ranking of all countries"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "source": "Eurostat (nrg_pc_204, CC BY 4.0)",
  "ranking": [
   {
    "name": "Ireland",
    "period": "2025-S2",
    "country": "IE",
    "eur_kwh": 0.4042
   },
   {
    "name": "Germany",
    "period": "2025-S2",
    "country": "DE",
    "eur_kwh": 0.3869
   }
  ],
  "updated": "2026-09-24T23:00:00+0200"
 }
}
```

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