# US Producer Price Index (PPI)

> US Producer Price Index (PPI) is a paid API for AI agents from www.x402financialdata.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Returns the latest US headline Final Demand PPI and core PPI (ex food & energy) as year-over-year figures, sourced live from FRED.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://www.x402financialdata.com/producer-prices?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-producer-price-index-ppi-eb29573d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rqBoBOp6qmagfvMdMfS_8

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-producer-price-index-ppi-eb29573d
```

Example prompt: What's the latest US Producer Price Index — give me both the headline Final Demand PPI and core PPI (ex food and energy) year-over-year figures?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time US producer-side inflation data (PPI) as a leading indicator ahead of CPI/PCE. It is ideal for macro analysis, inflation forecasting, and economic dashboards where you specifically need the producer price perspective rather than consumer prices. It is not ticker-specific and covers the full US economy.

## Known failure modes

- FRED data source temporarily unavailable — upstream fetch failure
- Payment not processed (x402 payment required at $0.01 USDC per call)
- Rate limiting or service downtime on x402financialdata.com
- Stale or delayed data if FRED has not yet published the latest release

## How this service works

US Producer Price Index (PPI) in one call, live from FRED: headline Final Demand PPI and core PPI (ex food & energy), both YoY -- a leading inflation indicator that moves ahead of the consumer-side CPI/PCE already in /economic-indicators, since producer cost changes flow through to consumer prices with a lag. Not ticker-specific. $0.01/call.

## Output

Returns the current US Producer Price Index data including: headline Final Demand PPI (YoY %) and core PPI excluding food and energy (YoY %), sourced live from FRED. Data reflects the most recent official release.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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   "required": [
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    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
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   "properties": {
    "type": {
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    },
    "example": {
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    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-producer-price-index-ppi-eb29573d/health.json
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