# MolCloud Distill – Article & Text Summarization API

> MolCloud Distill – Article & Text Summarization API is a paid API for AI agents from api.molcloud.net, paid per call via x402, $0.008/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Distills raw text or article content into a structured executive summary with key facts and token reduction metrics, paid per-request in USDC via x402.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.molcloud.net/api/distill?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.008/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/molcloud-distill-article-text-summarization-api-3f56e29f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_taxn4ZeurINdxuBLBcD-9

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 molcloud-distill-article-text-summarization-api-3f56e29f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you distill this long blog post into a quick executive summary with the key facts? Here's the content: [paste article text]. Also track it with this source URL: https://example.com/article.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to compress long-form text into a structured, token-efficient summary with explicit key facts — especially in agentic pipelines where downstream context windows are limited. It is well-suited for pay-per-use workflows where you only pay when summarization is needed, and when you want citation tracking via source URL alongside the distillation result.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or missing content field returns an error — both url and content are optional but at least content should be provided for meaningful output
- Very short inputs may produce trivial summaries with minimal key facts
- Malformed JSON body returns a 400-level error
- x402 payment failure or insufficient USDC balance prevents the call from completing
- Content in unsupported languages may produce degraded summaries

## How this service works

41 pay-per-request AI, search, headless browser, crypto alpha & memory APIs for autonomous agents settling in USDC on Base via x402 v2.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with status, a summary object containing an array of keyFacts, an executiveSummary string, and tokenEconomics including the reductionPercentage (e.g. 92% token reduction). Payment is settled in USDC on Base via x402 at $0.008 per call.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional source URL for citation tracking"
  },
  "content": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Raw text or article content to distill"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "status": "success",
  "summary": {
   "keyFacts": [],
   "tokenEconomics": {
    "reductionPercentage": 92
   },
   "executiveSummary": "..."
  },
  "endpoint": "/api/distill"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/molcloud-distill-article-text-summarization-api-3f56e29f/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.molcloud.net](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.molcloud.net/llms.txt)