# US Unemployment Rate - FRED UNRATE Series

> US Unemployment Rate - FRED UNRATE Series is a paid API for AI agents from agent402.tools, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the latest US unemployment rate and a trailing N-month historical series sourced from FRED UNRATE (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agent402.tools/api/unemployment-rate
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-unemployment-rate-fred-unrate-series-52ec7d9a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_VKdd9qr31dpe6sHBWCjLY

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-series-52ec7d9a
```

Example prompt: What's the current US unemployment rate, and can you show me how it's trended over the last 24 months?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative US unemployment rate data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED, especially when you need both the current rate and a historical trend series in a single call. Prefer over manual FRED API calls for simplicity and x402 micropayment compatibility.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid months parameter (outside 1-120 range) may return an error or default to 12
- FRED data source temporarily unavailable may result in stale or failed response
- Non-numeric months value returns a validation error

## How this service works

Latest US unemployment rate plus a trailing N-month series for trend. Source: FRED UNRATE (Bureau of Labor Statistics). ?months=12 (1-120, default 12).

## Output

Returns the most recent US unemployment rate value along with a trailing series of monthly unemployment rate data points (up to 120 months), sourced from the FRED UNRATE dataset 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": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "months": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Trailing months to return (1-120, default 12)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "date",
      "current",
      "months",
      "history",
      "source"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "date": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "months": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "current": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "history": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "date": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "value": {
          "type": "integer"
         }
        }
       }
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "date": "2026-05-01",
  "months": 12,
  "source": "FRED UNRATE (BLS)",
  "current": 4.1,
  "history": [
   {
    "date": "2025-06-01",
    "value": 4
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

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