# US Federal Agency Budget Authority Rankings (USAspending)

> US Federal Agency Budget Authority Rankings (USAspending) is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns US federal agencies ranked by budget authority from USAspending data, serving as a contracting signal for GovTech and FinTech use cases.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/gov-spending
- 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/us-federal-agency-budget-authority-rankings-usaspending-4acab76f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_UWpOSbkagHmHcOuD1tmd5

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 us-federal-agency-budget-authority-rankings-usaspending-4acab76f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest US federal agency budget authority rankings from USAspending so I can see which agencies have the biggest contracting potential?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a ranked, ready-to-consume list of federal agencies by budget authority for contracting intelligence, GovTech research, or FinTech government market analysis — without having to parse raw USAspending.gov APIs yourself.

## Known failure modes

- Upstream USAspending data unavailable — service may return 503 or stale data
- Rate limiting or payment failure for x402 micropayment — returns 402 Payment Required
- No parameters accepted; if query params are passed they are ignored

## How this service works

GOV/FINTECH: US federal agencies ranked by budget authority (USAspending) — contracting signal. Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON array of US federal agencies ranked by their budget authority as reported on USAspending, useful for identifying top-spending agencies and prioritizing government contracting outreach.

## More

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