# Task Profit API – Task Profitability Estimator

> Task Profit API – Task Profitability Estimator is a paid API for AI agents from task-profit-api.62.238.55.212.sslip.io, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Estimates the profitability of a single task or bounty given a plain-language description of it.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://task-profit-api.62.238.55.212.sslip.io/v1/estimate
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/task-profit-api-task-profitability-estimator-3e3e28e3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_xqeavMWSJKbzSJDQxlv-l

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 task-profit-api-task-profitability-estimator-3e3e28e3 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you estimate how profitable this task would be: 'Write a 500-word SEO blog post on cryptocurrency trends, deadline 48 hours, pay $25'?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, per-task profitability signal to help an agent or human decide whether to accept, prioritize, or bid on a specific task or bounty. It is purpose-built for single-task evaluation via plain-language input, making it ideal for agentic pipelines that screen tasks before committing resources. Prefer it over generic LLM reasoning when you want a consistent, structured profitability estimate with a defined cost per call.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or missing task_text field returns a validation error
- Very vague or ambiguous task descriptions may yield low-confidence or inaccurate estimates
- Payment failure (x402) if insufficient USDC balance prevents the call
- Network errors on the raw-IP sslip.io host may cause intermittent timeouts
- Extremely long task descriptions may exceed input limits

## How this service works

Bounty/task triage before you spend inference: given task text and optional marketplace context (payout_usd, repo_size, language, acceptance criteria), returns a predicted token/cost estimate, a spec-quality score with named ambiguities, and a bid/clarify/skip recommendation that weighs predicted cost against stated payout. Deterministic scoring, no model call.

## Output

Returns a profitability estimate for the described task — likely including a score or monetary estimate indicating how financially worthwhile the task is, based on analysis of the task description.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "context": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "due_at": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "language": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "repo_size": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "payout_usd": {
     "type": "number",
     "minimum": 0
    },
    "marketplace": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "expected_acceptance_criteria": {
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "description": "Optional marketplace context. Supplying payout_usd is what unlocks the expected-value bid/skip comparison instead of a spec-quality-only recommendation.",
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "task_text": {
   "type": "string",
   "minLength": 1,
   "description": "Plain-language description of the task, bounty, or work order to evaluate."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/task-profit-api-task-profitability-estimator-3e3e28e3/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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