# US Unemployment Rate (FRED UNRATE)

> US Unemployment Rate (FRED UNRATE) is a paid API for AI agents from finance-api.kdlcfa.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Returns the latest US unemployment rate as reported by the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) UNRATE series

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://finance-api.kdlcfa.workers.dev/unemployment-rate?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-unemployment-rate-fred-unrate-10d8b39e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_qNYUxQ_qXUskiu1Eo9fu3

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-unemployment-rate-fred-unrate-10d8b39e
```

Example prompt: What's the current US unemployment rate according to FRED? I need the latest UNRATE figure.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, low-cost ($0.01 USDC) programmatic lookup of the official US unemployment rate (FRED UNRATE series) without needing to integrate directly with the FRED API. Ideal for economic dashboards, macro research agents, or Fed policy monitoring workflows that need a single authoritative US labor market figure. Not suited for historical time-series, international unemployment data, or sub-national (state/city) unemployment breakdowns.

## Known failure modes

- FRED data source unavailable — upstream service outage may delay or block response
- Stale data — UNRATE is updated monthly so the figure may not reflect the most current week
- Payment failure — x402 micropayment of $0.01 USDC not completed, blocking access
- Rate limiting or worker-level errors from the Cloudflare Workers host
- Empty or malformed response if FRED API changes its schema

## How this service works

US unemployment rate, via FRED (UNRATE)

## Output

Returns the current US unemployment rate (UNRATE) sourced from FRED, typically as a percentage value reflecting the most recently available monthly data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
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   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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