# Saylor Innovations True Cost of Auto Ownership

> Saylor Innovations True Cost of Auto Ownership is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-31).

Calculates total vehicle ownership cost broken down by depreciation, fuel, insurance, maintenance, and loan interest — per month and per mile — with optional side-by-side comparison of two vehicles

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/auto/ownership-cost?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-31
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-true-cost-of-auto-ownership-3755a8b1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_KG1Tvr2fGKfCL6Rlu6jtW

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 saylor-innovations-true-cost-of-auto-ownership-3755a8b1
```

Example prompt: What's the true monthly cost of owning a $42,000 SUV financed at 7% APR over 60 months, driven 15,000 miles a year, with a gas powertrain getting 26 MPG and gas at $3.80 per gallon — and compare it to a $45,000 EV?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when a user needs a comprehensive, multi-component vehicle ownership cost calculation that goes beyond just the loan payment — especially when they want depreciation, fuel, insurance, and maintenance all factored in together, or need to compare two vehicles side by side. Prefer this over simple loan calculators or fuel-cost estimators when the user's question involves 'true cost', 'total cost of ownership', or 'which car is cheaper to own'.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'price' parameter returns an error
- Invalid powertrain value (not gas/hybrid/diesel/ev) may cause unexpected defaults or errors
- EV cost calculations may be inaccurate if kwh_per_100mi and kwh_price are not supplied
- Extremely low or high price values may produce unrealistic depreciation estimates
- Mismatched compare parameters (e.g. compare_powertrain=ev without compare_mpg) may use defaults silently

## How this service works

Depreciation, fuel, insurance, maintenance and interest per month and per mile, with side-by-side comparison

## Output

Returns a detailed breakdown of monthly and per-mile ownership costs split into depreciation, fuel, insurance, maintenance, and loan interest components. When a comparison vehicle is provided, returns a side-by-side comparison of both vehicles across all cost categories.

## 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",
    "queryParams"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH",
      "DELETE",
      "HEAD"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "price"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "mpg": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional fuel economy for gas, hybrid and diesel, default 28 (query)"
      },
      "class": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional depreciation class: economy, sedan, suv, truck, luxury, ev, sports (query)"
      },
      "price": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "required purchase price (query)"
      },
      "years": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional holding years, default 6 (query)"
      },
      "loan_apr": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional, default 7 (query)"
      },
      "age_years": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional age of the car when bought, default 0 (query)"
      },
      "kwh_price": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional electricity price, default 0.16 (query)"
      },
      "fuel_price": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional price per gallon, default 3.50 (query)"
      },
      "powertrain": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional gas (default), hybrid, diesel or ev (query)"
      },
      "compare_mpg": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional second car mpg (query)"
      },
      "loan_amount": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional financed amount (query)"
      },
      "compare_price": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional second car price (query)"
      },
      "kwh_per_100mi": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional EV consumption, default 30 (query)"
      },
      "miles_per_year": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional, default 12000 (query)"
      },
      "loan_term_months": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional, default 60 (query)"
      },
      "sales_tax_percent": {
       "type": "string",
       "description"
… (truncated)
```

## More

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