# Maha Context Budget Ladder

> Maha Context Budget Ladder is a paid API for AI agents from www.mahastrategies.com, paid per call via x402, $0.035002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-25).

Compares five ascending declared context budgets applied over the same supplied documents, returning a side-by-side analysis without performing model inference or source lookups.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/context/legacy/context-budget-ladder?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.035002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-25
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/maha-context-budget-ladder-199c24a3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_GWNtHlO85IQ6XapR3RoMR

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 maha-context-budget-ladder-199c24a3 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you run the context budget ladder on these documents I'm supplying — they're public, non-personal — and show me how five ascending context budget levels compare against the same content?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a pure computational comparison of five ascending context budget declarations against a fixed document set, without any model inference, external source lookup, or answer-quality evaluation. It is best suited for infrastructure validation, pipeline configuration, and pre-deployment context budget sizing decisions on public or synthetic non-personal data. Not appropriate for live model inference, real-time data retrieval, or personal data processing.

## Known failure modes

- Input exceeds 32 KiB limit — request rejected
- Non-public or non-synthetic data class submitted — validation failure
- nonpersonalMetadata flag not set to true — request rejected
- Malformed request object — schema validation error
- Output exceeds 65 KB limit — truncation or error
- Service unavailable due to deployment hold — no response

## How this service works

Compare five ascending declared context budgets over the same supplied documents. No source lookup, model or answer-quality claim. Public/synthetic nonpersonal input only; 32 KiB input, 65 KB output. Result retention: 24 hours; minimal receipt metadata: 90 days. Local validation only; deployment and model spending on hold.

## Output

A structured comparison of five ascending declared context budgets evaluated over the same supplied documents, detailing how each budget tier handles the input content — without performing model inference, source lookups, or answer-quality assessments. Results are retained for 24 hours; minimal receipt metadata is kept for 90 days. Output is up to 65 KB.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "request": {
   "type": "object"
  },
  "dataClass": {
   "enum": [
    "public",
    "synthetic"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "nonpersonalMetadata": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "const": true
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/maha-context-budget-ladder-199c24a3/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from www.mahastrategies.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/www.mahastrategies.com/llms.txt)