# Mekong Trade Intel Web Search API

> Mekong Trade Intel Web Search API is a paid API for AI agents from api.mekongtradeintel.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-25).

Performs deduplicated, spam-filtered web or news searches via Google (Serper) and returns SERP results with relevance scores

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/websearch?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/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-web-search-api-3a757a37
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_2KWF6dcQufW0VD7wa92ah

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-web-search-api-3a757a37
```

Example prompt: Search the web for the latest news about Vietnam trade agreements — give me up to 10 results, using news search type and localized to Vietnam.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when your agent needs real-time web or news search results without setting up a Google or Serper API key, wants spam-filtered and deduplicated SERP results with relevance scores, and requires pay-per-call pricing at $0.01 USDC with no account required. Prefer this over self-hosted search integrations when minimizing setup friction matters, or when you need localized results for specific countries including Vietnam. If you want an AI-synthesized summary of results, use the sibling AI-synthesized web search endpoint instead.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or empty query returns an error — query is required
- Query exceeding 500 characters is rejected
- Invalid search type (not search, news, or images) may return an error or default to web search
- Invalid country code may fall back to default US results
- num parameter outside 1-20 range may be clamped or rejected
- Payment failure via x402 protocol results in 402 response with no results

## How this service works

Web search API via Google (Serper): deduped, spam-filtered SERP results with relevance scores. Web search, news search for AI agents. $0.01/call, USDC on Base. No account or API key needed.

## Output

Returns a list of deduplicated, spam-filtered SERP results with relevance scores. Each result typically includes title, URL, snippet, and a relevance score. Supports web search, news search, and image search modes.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "num": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Max results, 1-20 (default 10)"
  },
  "type": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "search, news or images (default search)"
  },
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Search query (required, max 500 chars)"
  },
  "country": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Country code for localization, e.g. us, vn, nl (default us)"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/mekong-trade-intel-web-search-api-3a757a37/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)