# Melvea Honey Recommendation API

> Melvea Honey Recommendation API is a paid API for AI agents from api.melvea.com, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns ranked honey variety recommendations with grounded flavor and terroir reasoning, based on a free-text flavor, use, or occasion intent.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.melvea.com/v1/recommend
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/melvea-honey-recommendation-api-d04d9e1f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_d3IIXY3nSBGJKWq_Mxldq

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 melvea-honey-recommendation-api-d04d9e1f
```

Example prompt: Can you recommend up to 3 honey varieties from Melvea that would work well for a sophisticated charcuterie board — ideally something with complex, earthy, or floral notes that pairs nicely with aged cheese?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need curated, explainable honey variety recommendations grounded in flavor, terroir, and use-case reasoning — especially when the user has a specific taste profile, occasion, or pairing in mind. Prefer this over generic web search when you need structured, ranked output with provenance rather than unverified listicles.

## Known failure modes

- Vague or ambiguous intent results in generic recommendations
- max_results exceeding 5 returns an error or is capped
- No matching varieties in corpus for highly specific or unusual intents
- Payment failure (x402) blocks the request from being processed
- Missing or malformed intent field returns a validation error

## How this service works

Grounded honey recommendations: send a flavor/use/occasion intent, receive ranked varieties chosen from Melvea's proprietary flavor, terroir, and scoring corpus — each with a grounded reason. Recommends on taste and use, not health.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 5 honey varieties (default 3), each with the variety name, a grounded explanation of why it matches the intent based on Melvea's flavor, terroir, and scoring corpus, and relevant sensory/use attributes. Reasons are taste- and use-based, not health-based.

## 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": [
      "intent"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "intent": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Free-text flavor/use/occasion intent"
      },
      "max_results": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Optional, default 3, max 5"
      }
     }
    },
    "discoverable": {
     "type": "boolean",
     "const": true
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/melvea-honey-recommendation-api-d04d9e1f/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.melvea.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.melvea.com/llms.txt)