# Xynaptic Energy Price

> Xynaptic Energy Price is a paid API for AI agents from api.xynaptic.io, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-03).

Returns the current electricity spot price in EUR/MWh for the European market (aWATTar), including a 24-hour trend and hourly price profile.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.xynaptic.io/v1/energy-price?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-03
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/xynaptic-energy-price-f1332a1c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_RD9W3ISWA1GOSxypdv7Bq

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 xynaptic-energy-price-f1332a1c
```

Example prompt: What's the current electricity spot price in Europe right now — and is it trending up or down over the last 24 hours?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need lightweight, real-time European electricity spot pricing (aWATTar market) with minimal latency. It is ideal for smart home automation, energy arbitrage decisions, cost monitoring dashboards, or any agent that needs to know whether electricity is currently cheap or expensive in Europe. Prefer it over broader energy APIs when you specifically need EUR/MWh spot prices with an hourly breakdown and 24h trend signal, rather than forecasts or multi-country comparisons.

## Known failure modes

- Upstream aWATTar data unavailable — may return stale or error response
- Market data gap during off-hours or weekends — hourly profile may be incomplete
- Rate limit or payment failure (x402) — call rejected without valid payment
- Network timeout if the real-time data source is slow to respond

## How this service works

Xynaptic Energy Price — current electricity spot price (EUR/MWh) with 24h trend and hourly profile. Europe (awattar market data). Lightweight, real-time.

## Output

Returns the current electricity spot price in EUR/MWh, a 24-hour price trend indicating whether prices are rising or falling, and an hourly price profile showing electricity costs for each hour of the day in the European (aWATTar) market.

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/xynaptic-energy-price-f1332a1c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.xynaptic.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.xynaptic.io/llms.txt)