# VerityLayer Pro Verification

> VerityLayer Pro Verification is a paid API for AI agents from api.veritylayer.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.35/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Verifies AI-generated claims and citations against authoritative sources, returning a verdict, supporting evidence, reasoning, and a confidence score.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.veritylayer.dev/verify/pro
- Price: $0.35/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/veritylayer-pro-verification-8d3f650a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_VmYJrTuuJ7tZRLLWKpfaA

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 veritylayer-pro-verification-8d3f650a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you run this through VerityLayer to check if it's actually true: 'The Mata v. Avianca case was decided by Judge P. Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York in 2023'? I need to know the verdict, what evidence supports or refutes it, and how confident the system is.

## When to prefer this

Choose VerityLayer when you need a fail-closed, independent verification pass on AI-generated claims or citations before they reach end users — especially in legal, academic, journalistic, or compliance contexts where hallucinated sources carry serious risk. It is particularly suited when you need structured evidence and reasoning alongside a verdict, not just a binary pass/fail. Prefer it over generic search-based fact-checking when you want auditable, confidence-scored outputs with zero false-positive tolerance.

## Known failure modes

- Claim too vague or ambiguous to verify — returns low confidence or 'unverifiable' verdict
- Source material unavailable or paywalled — may limit evidence breadth
- Highly niche or recent claims may lack sufficient authoritative sources to assess
- Malformed or missing claim input — returns validation error
- Rate limit or payment failure — returns 402 or 429 status

## How this service works

VerityLayer verifies whether a factual claim is true — fact-check, verify a claim, is this true. Independent, fail-closed verification for AI agents: returns a verdict (supported/unsupported/uncertain), a calibrated 0-1 confidence, reasoning, and evidence; abstains rather than guess. Every verdict includes an Ed25519-signed receipt — portable cryptographic proof of what was verified, free re-verification at /receipt/verify. Tier: pro — grounded premium synthesis (Opus).

## Output

A JSON object containing: a 'verdict' field (e.g. 'supported', 'refuted', 'unverifiable'), an 'evidence' array of authoritative source references that back the verdict, a 'reasoning' string explaining the determination, and a 'confidence' score between 0 and 1 indicating certainty.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "claim": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "context": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "verdict": "supported",
  "evidence": [
   "Encyclopaedia Britannica — Eiffel Tower, Paris, France."
  ],
  "reasoning": "Multiple authoritative sources place the Eiffel Tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.",
  "confidence": 0.97
 }
}
```

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