# zaref.dev South African Sovereign Credit Rating History

> zaref.dev South African Sovereign Credit Rating History is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Returns the full dated history of South Africa's sovereign credit rating, accumulating verified rating updates over time.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/sovereign-credit-rating/history?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-sovereign-credit-rating-history-6b58b8f0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_L2biCklCcV3sAH0ijd2-U

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-sovereign-credit-rating-history-6b58b8f0
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the full history of South Africa's sovereign credit rating, including all dated rating changes?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a structured, verified, time-series history of South Africa's sovereign credit rating — especially for financial modelling, risk analysis, or compliance checks requiring cited and dated data points. Prefer this over general web scraping when you need clean, machine-readable SA-specific credit rating data.

## Known failure modes

- HTTP 402 Payment Required if x402 micropayment header is missing or insufficient
- HTTP 404 if endpoint path is incorrect
- Empty dataset if no verified rating updates are yet recorded
- Network timeout if the service is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

History of South African SA sovereign credit rating: dated points accumulating with every verified update.

## Output

An array of dated data points representing each verified update to South Africa's sovereign credit rating, forming a complete historical time series of the country's creditworthiness as assessed by rating agencies.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "points": [
   {
    "date": "2026-06-04",
    "value": "..."
   }
  ],
  "series": "sovereign-credit-rating"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-sovereign-credit-rating-history-6b58b8f0/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from zaref.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/zaref.dev/llms.txt)