# x402 Price Benchmark by Category

> x402 Price Benchmark by Category is a paid API for AI agents from x402-meta.x402tookit.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Returns low, median, and high price statistics for x402 endpoints with real buyers, filtered by service category.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-meta.x402tookit.com/x402-price-benchmark?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-price-benchmark-by-category-eee521ba
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_NZO3srvkvHG2JyLx1EkYd

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 x402-price-benchmark-by-category-eee521ba
```

Example prompt: What's the typical price range for x402 AI endpoints right now — give me the low, median, and high among services that actually have real buyers?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need market-level pricing data for x402 endpoints filtered by service category — especially for competitive pricing decisions, market research, or agent-driven pricing automation. Prefer this over the top-earners or market-size endpoints when the primary need is price distribution (percentiles) rather than revenue ranking or total market count.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized category value returns empty or error response
- No services with real buyers in the requested category results in null price fields
- Degraded mode flag set to true when data freshness is low or source data is incomplete
- Network timeout or upstream data unavailability returns a degraded or empty response

## How this service works

Price benchmark for x402 endpoints: low, median and high price among services with real buyers, by category.

## Output

Returns a structured benchmark report including price percentiles (p10, p25, median, p75, p90), a buyer-weighted average price, the number of active services in the category, a list of the most-bought services with their 30-day buyer counts and minimum prices, a human-readable summary and verdict, data freshness timestamp, and attribution/disclaimer fields.

## 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",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "category": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Category: Data, AI, Finance, Verification, Blockchain, Content, Compute, Infrastructure, Other"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "asOf": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "reasons": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "verdict": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "category": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "degraded": {
       "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "priceUsd": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "object"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "p10": {
         "type": [
          "null",
          "number"
         ]
        },
        "p25": {
         "type": [
          "null",
          "number"
         ]
        },
        "p75": {
         "type": [
          "null",
          "number"
         ]
        },
        "p90": {
         "type": [
          "null",
          "number"
         ]
        },
        "median": {
         "type": [
          "null",
          "number"
         ]
        }
       }
      },
      "services": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "sourceUrl": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "disclaimer": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "mostBought": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items"
… (truncated)
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-price-benchmark-by-category-eee521ba/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402-meta.x402tookit.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402-meta.x402tookit.com/llms.txt)