# KiHustle Token Counter

> KiHustle Token Counter is a paid API for AI agents from kihustle.tech, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Counts the number of tokens in a given text string

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://kihustle.tech/api/v1/token-counter
- 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/kihustle-token-counter-e6b18512
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_pPQ03OTA0LoPQW0yvgumm

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 kihustle-token-counter-e6b18512 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: How many tokens is this text: 'Artificial intelligence is transforming how we work and earn money online through automation and AI-powered side hustles'?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a lightweight, pay-per-use token counting utility without spinning up a local tokenizer library. Useful in agentic pipelines that need to validate prompt length before calling expensive LLM APIs, or when billing estimation is required for text processing workflows.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or missing text field returns an error or zero count
- Extremely long text inputs may hit size limits or time out
- Malformed JSON request body results in a 400-level error
- Service unavailability returns a non-200 status with no result
- Ambiguous tokenization method (e.g. which tokenizer standard is used) may produce unexpected counts

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a JSON object with a result field indicating the processing outcome and a status field confirming success. The primary output is the computed token count or processing acknowledgment for the submitted text.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "text": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "result": "processed",
  "status": "success"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/kihustle-token-counter-e6b18512/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from kihustle.tech](https://www.zero.xyz/host/kihustle.tech/llms.txt)