# HALOWERK Retail Price Bands (Austrian Scanner Data)

> HALOWERK Retail Price Bands (Austrian Scanner Data) is a paid API for AI agents from teuerung.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Returns Q1, median, and Q3 retail price distribution bands for a specific Austrian food product in a given month, sourced from Statistik Austria Preisradar scanner data.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://teuerung.halowerk.com/v1/retail-price-bands?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/halowerk-retail-price-bands-austrian-scanner-data-223d0e85
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_NU0DnNkiebmViGjxV8mm5

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 halowerk-retail-price-bands-austrian-scanner-data-223d0e85 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the Q1, median, and Q3 retail price bands for Langkornreis in Austria for September 2026, using the Statistik Austria scanner data?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need official Austrian scanner-data price distributions (Q1/median/Q3) for a specific food product and month, sourced from Statistik Austria Preisradar. It is the right choice for inflation analysis, price benchmarking, and consumer price research scoped to Austria (AT). Do not use it for Germany (DE is unsupported), for real-time store-level offers, or for category-level CPI/HICP indices — use the sibling endpoints for those.

## Known failure modes

- Product not found: unknown product ID or name returns an error or empty result
- Unsupported country: passing DE returns an explicit unsupported-country error
- Invalid period format: non-matching date pattern returns a validation error
- Period not yet published: requesting a future or unpublished month returns no data
- Product name ambiguity: a vague name may match multiple products or none

## How this service works

Austrian scanner-data Q1, median and Q3 per original reference quantity, with the published month. Example: product Langkornreis, country AT, period 2026-09. Source: Statistik Austria Preisradar, processed by HALOWERK. Original JSON precision retained. DE unsupported. Monthly distributions are not current individual store offers.

## Output

Returns the Q1, median, and Q3 price values for the specified product at its original reference quantity, along with the published reporting month. Data is derived from Austrian scanner data via Statistik Austria Preisradar; reflects monthly distributions across retailers, not individual store offers.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "period": {
   "type": "string",
   "pattern": "^\\d{4}-(0[1-9]|1[0-2])$",
   "description": "Optional reporting month, for example 2026-09. Defaults to latest published month for this product."
  },
  "country": {
   "enum": [
    "AT",
    "DE"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "default": "AT",
   "description": "AT only; DE is explicitly unsupported."
  },
  "product": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 100,
   "minLength": 2,
   "description": "Original product ID or product name, for example 001900 or Langkornreis."
  }
 }
}
```

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