# Henry Hub Natural Gas Spot Price

> Henry Hub Natural Gas Spot Price is a paid API for AI agents from x402-seller.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the latest Henry Hub natural gas spot price in USD/MMBtu, sourced from the U.S. Energy Information Administration with approximately one business day lag.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-seller.onrender.com/gas/price
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/henry-hub-natural-gas-spot-price-02f218f7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_G6beMDCy0M12Kp6Fum76a

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 henry-hub-natural-gas-spot-price-02f218f7
```

Example prompt: What's the latest Henry Hub natural gas spot price from the EIA — give me the price in USD per MMBtu and the date it's for?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the official U.S. Henry Hub natural gas benchmark spot price as reported by the EIA, particularly for energy cost analysis, utility budgeting, or commodity tracking. Prefer this over scraped or third-party sources when EIA provenance and accuracy matter. Not suitable for live or intraday trading data.

## Known failure modes

- EIA data unavailable or delayed — endpoint may return stale or missing data
- Service cold-start latency on Render free tier may cause initial timeout
- No input parameters accepted; any query parameters are ignored
- Data reflects prior business day and may not match real-time trading prices

## How this service works

Latest Henry Hub natural gas spot price (USD/MMBtu), sourced from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Data lags several business days behind the market; not live trading data.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the Henry Hub natural gas spot price as a number (USD/MMBtu), the benchmark name, the date of the price reading, the unit string, and the data source attribution (EIA). Data has approximately a one business day lag and is not live trading data.

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "date": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "unit": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "price": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "benchmark": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "commodity": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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