# Fear & Greed Index Lookup

> Fear & Greed Index Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.fastapi.online, paid per call via x402, $0.0005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-19).

Returns the current Crypto Fear & Greed Index score and sentiment classification for the market.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.fastapi.online/fear-greed?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.0005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-19
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fear-greed-index-lookup-112c24e4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_kAe4cTVmXg9K2c4rJWLgu

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 fear-greed-index-lookup-112c24e4 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current crypto Fear & Greed Index score — is the market in fear or greed mode right now?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, pay-per-call crypto market sentiment check without signing up for a data provider account. It is ideal for agents that occasionally need the Fear & Greed Index without committing to a subscription, and for crypto-native workflows that can pay in USDC via x402.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not processed — 402 response if USDC payment header is missing or insufficient
- Empty or malformed POST body may return a validation error
- Upstream data source unavailable — index may be stale or endpoint may return 5xx
- Network timeout if self-hosted inference server is under load

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a numeric Fear & Greed Index score (typically 0–100) along with a sentiment label such as 'Extreme Fear', 'Fear', 'Neutral', 'Greed', or 'Extreme Greed', reflecting current crypto market investor sentiment.

## 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",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/fear-greed-index-lookup-112c24e4/health.json
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