# Mekong Trade Intel API Recommender

> Mekong Trade Intel API Recommender is a paid API for AI agents from api.mekongtradeintel.com, paid per call via x402, $0.008/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-25).

Recommends ranked x402-compatible APIs for a given task, using keyword matching and real on-chain usage demand to surface the best options.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/agentrecommend?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.008/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-25
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mekong-trade-intel-api-recommender-5332ba3c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap__4eo157AXzagunE_bRIu5

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 mekong-trade-intel-api-recommender-5332ba3c
```

Example prompt: Can you recommend the best x402 API for getting live token prices on Base — I want something ranked by real on-chain usage, not just keywords?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an AI agent needs to dynamically discover which x402 micropayment API is best suited for a new task, especially when you want recommendations grounded in real on-chain usage rather than static documentation indexes. Prefer this over manual API catalogs or static hardcoded routing when building adaptive multi-step agentic workflows that need to self-route to the right capability at runtime.

## Known failure modes

- No APIs match the task description — returns empty or low-confidence results
- Overly broad task string causes noisy or irrelevant recommendations
- On-chain demand data may lag real-time popularity shifts
- Task string too short or vague to differentiate between closely related APIs
- Rate limiting or payment failure on the $0.008 per-call x402 charge

## How this service works

Recommend x402 APIs for your task, ranked by keyword match + real on-chain demand. $0.008 per call. Send {"task"}.

## Output

A ranked list of x402-compatible APIs relevant to the given task, ordered by a combination of keyword relevance and real on-chain usage demand, helping agents identify the most appropriate micropayment-enabled API to call next.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "task": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Describe what you need, e.g. 'get token price on Base'"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/mekong-trade-intel-api-recommender-5332ba3c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.mekongtradeintel.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.mekongtradeintel.com/llms.txt)