# MoneyTools Cron Next-Run Calculator

> MoneyTools Cron Next-Run Calculator is a paid API for AI agents from tools.moneytools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-05).

Returns the next N scheduled run times for a cron expression (or shorthand like @daily) in any IANA time zone, with a plain-language description

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://tools.moneytools.dev/v1/cron?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-05
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/moneytools-cron-next-run-calculator-8575573b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_eZzgvfBfyVyX8ILKbjYou

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 moneytools-cron-next-run-calculator-8575573b
```

Example prompt: What are the next 5 times this cron expression '0 20 * * 1-5' will run, in the America/New_York time zone — and can you describe what it means in plain English?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically compute future execution times for a cron expression, especially when you also want a human-readable description of the schedule. It supports both standard 5-field cron syntax and shorthand aliases (@daily, @weekly, etc.) and handles arbitrary IANA time zones — making it ideal for scheduling UIs, CI/CD tools, monitoring dashboards, or any agent workflow that needs to reason about when a job will next run.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid cron expression returns an error without charging
- Unsupported or misspelled IANA time zone returns a validation error
- Count outside 1-50 range returns a parameter error
- Free tier exhausted with no payment method returns HTTP 402
- Network issues with USDC payment on Base may cause payment failure

## How this service works

Catalog of MoneyTools: 115 cheap, read-only tools for AI agents. Free daily tier, then x402 USDC micropayments or prepaid credits. Token safety, approvals, tx decoding, EIP-712 risk, gas, ENS, x402 validation, DNS, RDAP, JSON Schema, time, FX.

## Output

A JSON object containing the next N scheduled run timestamps for the given cron expression in the requested IANA time zone, a plain-language description of the schedule, and payment metadata (charged boolean, network, amountUsd, transaction hash). Free tier allows 10 calls/day; subsequent calls are charged $0.001 USDC via x402 or API key credits.

## 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": {
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "const": "GET"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "expression"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "tz": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "Asia/Taipei"
       ],
       "description": "IANA zone (default UTC)"
      },
      "count": {
       "type": "number",
       "examples": [
        "5"
       ],
       "description": "1-50 (default 5)"
      },
      "expression": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "0 20 * * 1-5"
       ],
       "description": "cron expression"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "payment": {
       "type": "object",
       "properties": {
        "charged": {
         "type": "boolean"
        },
        "network": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "amountUsd": {
         "type": "string"
        },
        "transaction": {
         "type": [
          "string",
          "null"
         ]
        }
       }
      },
      "freeTier": {
       "type": "object"
      },
      "_moneytools": {
       "type": "object",
       "description": "optional plan / partner hints"
      }
     },
     "description": "Tool-specific JSON result (see llms.txt / openapi.json). Always includes payment info.",
     "additionalProperties": true
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/moneytools-cron-next-run-calculator-8575573b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from tools.moneytools.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/tools.moneytools.dev/llms.txt)