# Strale Company Name Match

> Strale Company Name Match is a paid API for AI agents from api.strale.io, paid per call via x402, $0.0216/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Compares two company names and returns a similarity/match score to determine if they refer to the same entity

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.strale.io/x402/v2/company-name-match
- Price: $0.0216/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/strale-company-name-match-181b23fd
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_aI8tDP79mXIGk_SBC9D6P

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 strale-company-name-match-181b23fd
```

Example prompt: Can you check if 'Acme Corp' and 'Acme Corporation Ltd' are the same company? I need to know if these two names are a match before I process this invoice.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a lightweight, auditable, per-call company name comparison with a cryptographic audit trail — especially in compliance, KYC, or financial workflows where provenance matters. Prefer it over general fuzzy-string matching libraries when you need a trusted third-party result with an immutable audit record, or when integrating into an x402 micropayment workflow. It is well-suited for single-pair comparisons rather than bulk deduplication jobs.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required query parameters name_a or name_b returns a 400 error
- Ambiguous or very short names (e.g. single letters) may yield low-confidence or unreliable scores
- Non-Latin or mixed-script company names may reduce match accuracy
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance returns a 402 Payment Required
- Rate limiting or service unavailability returns 429 or 503

## How this service works

Fuzzy match and normalize company names. Compares two names accounting for Ltd/Limited, AB/Aktiebolag, Inc/Incorporated, GmbH, etc. Returns match confidence using Levenshtein, Jaro-Winkler, and token overlap algorithms.

## Output

Returns a match result indicating whether the two company names are considered the same entity, including a similarity or confidence score. Every response includes a cryptographic audit record with chain hashing for traceability and trust verification.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "name_a",
  "name_b"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "name_a": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "First company name"
  },
  "name_b": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Second company name to compare"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "match": {
  "type": "boolean"
 },
 "confidence": {
  "type": "number"
 },
 "normalized_a": {
  "type": "string"
 },
 "normalized_b": {
  "type": "string"
 },
 "suffixes_removed": {
  "type": "object"
 },
 "similarity_scores": {
  "type": "object"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/strale-company-name-match-181b23fd/health.json
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