# Tonnes to US Tons Converter

> Tonnes to US Tons Converter is a paid API for AI agents from agent402.tools, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Converts a numeric mass value from metric tonnes to US short tons

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agent402.tools/api/convert/tonnes-to-us-tons
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/tonnes-to-us-tons-converter-373ed3ee
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uOn6GfTW_Ax2vwo2qqLGW

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 tonnes-to-us-tons-converter-373ed3ee
```

Example prompt: Convert 7.5 tonnes to US tons for me.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, programmatic conversion from metric tonnes to US short tons (2000 lb), especially in logistics, shipping, commodity trading, or bulk material contexts where both metric and US imperial units are used. Prefer this over general-purpose unit converters when operating within an agent workflow that already handles x402 micropayments.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'value' query parameter returns an error
- Non-numeric value passed as input causes a parsing or validation error
- Very large or very small numbers may cause precision issues
- Network or service unavailability returns a 5xx error
- Payment not sent or rejected causes a 402 Payment Required response

## How this service works

Convert tonnes to us tons (mass). Pass ?value=N.

## Output

Returns the converted mass value expressed in US short tons corresponding to the input numeric value provided in metric tonnes

## 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": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "value"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "value": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Numeric value to convert"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/tonnes-to-us-tons-converter-373ed3ee/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agent402.tools](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agent402.tools/llms.txt)