# US Federal Award Top Recipients

> US Federal Award Top Recipients is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of the largest recipients of US federal award dollars, ordered by total amount received.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/gov-top-recipients
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-federal-award-top-recipients-17a60fee
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Gz9UK9urz63TAM-f-x3Ot

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-award-top-recipients-17a60fee -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Who are the biggest recipients of US federal award dollars? Give me the top organizations ranked by total amount they've received from the government.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a pre-ranked, no-parameter snapshot of the top US federal award recipients by total dollar amount. Ideal for quick lookups without needing to specify filters, date ranges, or agency parameters — it returns a ready-to-use ranked list in JSON format.

## Known failure modes

- Service unavailable or upstream data source outage returning 5xx error
- Payment not processed or x402 protocol failure resulting in 402 response
- Stale or cached data if the underlying federal awards dataset has not been recently updated

## How this service works

GOV: Largest recipients of US federal award dollars, ranked by total amount. No params. Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON array of the largest US federal award recipients ranked by total dollar amount received, including recipient names and corresponding award totals.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-federal-award-top-recipients-17a60fee/health.json
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