# UK Tons to US Tons Converter

> UK Tons to US Tons Converter is a paid API for AI agents from agent402.tools, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Converts a numeric value from UK long tons (imperial tons) to US short tons via a simple GET query parameter.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agent402.tools/api/convert/uk-tons-to-us-tons
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/uk-tons-to-us-tons-converter-c09e2231
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_hyoXR5AeyQ8GSy6dHTvuF

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 uk-tons-to-us-tons-converter-c09e2231
```

Example prompt: How many US short tons is 7.5 UK long tons?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you specifically need to convert mass values expressed in UK long tons (imperial tons, 2240 lbs) to US short tons (2000 lbs). Prefer this over manual calculation when automating unit conversions in data pipelines or when handling international shipping, trade, or commodity data that mixes British and American ton measurements.

## Known failure modes

- Missing ?value parameter returns an error or bad request
- Non-numeric value string causes a parse error
- Very large or very small numbers may cause precision issues
- Service unavailable returns HTTP 402 or 5xx if payment not processed

## How this service works

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

## Output

Returns the converted numeric value representing the equivalent mass in US short tons (short tons, where 1 US short ton = 2000 lbs) for the given input in UK long tons (where 1 UK long ton = 2240 lbs).

## 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

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