# EU Natural Gas Prices (Eurostat)

> EU Natural Gas 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 natural gas prices in EUR/kWh for European countries (20-200 GJ/year band), with or without taxes, as a country ranking or half-yearly evolution for a single country.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/eu-gas-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-natural-gas-prices-eurostat-50f907b0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_jQ4P3UOt6gMeVEQiJDtVJ

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-natural-gas-prices-eurostat-50f907b0 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Show me the latest Eurostat ranking of all European countries by average household natural gas price in EUR/kWh, with taxes included.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need official Eurostat household natural gas prices for European countries in the 20-200 GJ/year consumption band, either for cross-country ranking or temporal evolution of a single country. It is the right choice for any EU energy cost analysis, policy research, or consumer benchmarking requiring authoritative, government-sourced data in EUR/kWh.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported ISO country code returns empty or null ranking
- Missing required 'type', 'method', or 'bodyType' fields in body causes validation error
- Data may lag official Eurostat publication schedule — 'updated' field indicates freshness
- No data available for very recent half-years not yet published by Eurostat

## How this service works

Average household natural gas price (20-200 GJ/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 containing a ranking array of countries (or a single country's half-yearly series) with country name, ISO code, period (e.g. 2025-S2), and price in EUR/kWh, plus the Eurostat source citation and the timestamp of the last data update.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "taxes": {
   "type": "boolean"
  },
  "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_202, CC BY 4.0)",
  "ranking": [
   {
    "name": "Sweden",
    "period": "2025-S2",
    "country": "SE",
    "eur_kwh": 0.2092
   },
   {
    "name": "Netherlands",
    "period": "2025-S2",
    "country": "NL",
    "eur_kwh": 0.1719
   }
  ],
  "updated": "2026-09-24T23:00:00+0200"
 }
}
```

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