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Wolfram|Alpha Short Answer
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Wolfram|Alpha Short Answer is a paid API for AI agents from Wolfram|Alpha at wolframalpha.mpp.paywithlocus.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.055/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11, last successful call 2026-04-20).
Returns a single plain-text short answer to a natural language factual or computational query using Wolfram|Alpha's knowledge engine
Price / call$0.055
Success100%
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Get a brief plain text answer to any question. Returns a single line of text — ideal for quick lookups and calculations.
Output
A plain-text string containing a concise, direct answer to the query — e.g. 'Berlin, Germany' for a capital city question or a numeric result for a math query. The response includes a success boolean and the answer text nested under data.text.
Example use cases
Example prompt
“Ask Wolfram|Alpha to compute the distance from Earth to Neptune in kilometers and give me just the short answer.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://wolframalpha.mpp.paywithlocus.com/wolframalpha/short-answer?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need a single, concise text answer to a factual, mathematical, scientific, or computational question and don't need structured data, images, or spoken audio. Prefer this over Full Results when you only need the bottom-line answer and want minimal response payload. Prefer over Spoken when text (not audio) is needed. Ideal for quick lookups, unit conversions, calculations, and factual queries where a one-line answer suffices.
Side effects
- Query not understood or no result available — Wolfram|Alpha may return empty or null text
- Timeout exceeded — if the computation takes longer than the specified timeout (default 5s), no result is returned
- Ambiguous query — may return an unexpected interpretation's answer without clarification
- Network or service unavailability — HTTP 5xx error
- Invalid input schema — missing required 'i' field returns validation error
Input
{
"i": "what is the capital of France",
"units": "metric",
"timeout": 5
}Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| irequired | string | Natural language query (e.g. "population of france", "distance to mars") |
| units | string | "metric" or "imperial" |
| timeout | number | Max seconds to process (default 5) |
Output
{
"data": {
"text": "Paris, Île-de-France, France"
},
"success": true
}Tags
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