# TCO 5-Year Calculator

> TCO 5-Year Calculator is a paid API for AI agents from api.m2mcent.com, paid per call via x402, $0.35/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Calculates the total cost of ownership (TCO) over a 5-year period for a given technology, asset, or investment scenario

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.m2mcent.com/tco-5-year-calculator-mcp/api/process
- Price: $0.35/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/tco-5-year-calculator-c009b5b7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_UWkRq6zOeIf_IbBEb5JIQ

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 tco-5-year-calculator-c009b5b7 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you calculate the 5-year total cost of ownership for migrating our on-premise servers to AWS, including licensing, maintenance, and support costs of around $50,000 per year upfront plus $15,000 annually in operations?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a structured, automated 5-year TCO computation for technology, hardware, software, or infrastructure scenarios — especially useful in procurement workflows, vendor comparisons, and financial planning tasks where a quick but rigorous cost projection is needed without manual spreadsheet work.

## Known failure modes

- Vague or incomplete cost input data resulting in unreliable estimates
- Malformed or empty 'data' string causing processing errors
- Ambiguous scenario description leading to incorrect assumptions in the calculation
- Service timeout for highly complex multi-variable inputs

## How this service works

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## Output

A structured 5-year total cost of ownership breakdown including annual cost projections, cumulative totals, and a final TCO figure, enabling informed procurement and investment decisions.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "payload": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "success": true
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/tco-5-year-calculator-c009b5b7/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.m2mcent.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.m2mcent.com/llms.txt)