# Financial Datasets AI – Real-Time Price Snapshot

> Financial Datasets AI – Real-Time Price Snapshot is a paid API for AI agents from api.financialdatasets.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Returns the current price, day change, day change percent, and quote time for a single US-listed stock ticker.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.financialdatasets.ai/prices/snapshot?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/financial-datasets-ai-real-time-price-snapshot-839cc5de
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_60C3kazJj7Bo8pqAw4TL_

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 financial-datasets-ai-real-time-price-snapshot-839cc5de
```

Example prompt: What is NVDA trading at right now — give me the current price and how much it has moved today in dollars and percent?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the latest real-time price snapshot for a single US-listed equity — specifically the current price, day change, and percent change — and do not need historical data, OHLCV bars, or fundamental metrics. Prefer this over the historical prices endpoint when recency is the priority, and over the financial metrics snapshot when only the market price is needed.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized ticker symbol returns an error
- Ticker exists but is not US-listed may return no data
- Market closed periods may return stale or delayed quote times
- Missing API key or insufficient plan for Professional use returns 402/401
- Rate limiting or quota exhaustion returns an error response

## How this service works

Real-time price snapshot for a US-listed ticker: current price, day change, day change percent and the quote time. Use when an agent needs the latest price for one ticker, not history. Non-Professional use; Professional use needs a plan at financialdatasets.ai.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the ticker symbol, the current market price, the absolute day change (price delta from previous close), the day change as a percentage, and the timestamp of the quote.

## 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",
     "required": [
      "ticker"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "ticker": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The stock ticker symbol (e.g. AAPL, MSFT)."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/financial-datasets-ai-real-time-price-snapshot-839cc5de/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.financialdatasets.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.financialdatasets.ai/llms.txt)