# zaref.dev South African Fuel Prices

> zaref.dev South African Fuel Prices is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-15).

Returns current South African retail and wholesale fuel prices (petrol 93/95 inland & coastal, diesel 50ppm, illuminating paraffin) in Rand per litre, with official source URL, effective date, and freshness flag.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/fuel-prices?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-fuel-prices-a569320f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tB0jVMMvBzLXzbfMlUkWZ

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 zaref-dev-south-african-fuel-prices-a569320f
```

Example prompt: What are the current official South African fuel prices — petrol 93 and 95 both inland and coastal, diesel 50ppm, and illuminating paraffin — in Rand per litre, and when did the prices last change?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need current, officially-sourced South African fuel prices (petrol 93/95 inland/coastal, diesel 50ppm, illuminating paraffin) in Rand per litre. It is the best choice for applications requiring freshness-flagged, cited government data rather than scraped or unverified figures. Prefer this over generic web search when structured, machine-readable JSON with an authoritative source URL is required.

## Known failure modes

- Prices not yet updated after a new government announcement — freshness flag will indicate stale data
- Network or upstream data source unavailability causing 5xx errors
- Payment failure (x402 protocol) if USDC balance is insufficient
- Temporary service outage returning empty or error response

## How this service works

South African Fuel prices (Current SA retail/wholesale fuel prices: petrol 93/95 (inland & coastal), diesel 50ppm, illuminating paraffin. Rand per litre.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.

## Output

A JSON object containing current South African fuel prices in Rand per litre for petrol 93 (inland and coastal), petrol 95 (inland and coastal), diesel 50ppm, and illuminating paraffin, along with the official source URL, the effective date of the current prices, and a freshness flag indicating whether the data is current.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": "current values with citations",
  "stale": false,
  "series": "fuel-prices",
  "source_url": "https://www.dmpr.gov.za/Services/Petroleum-Resources/Fuel-Prices",
  "effective_date": "2026-07-01"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-fuel-prices-a569320f/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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