# zaref.dev South African Toll Fees

> zaref.dev South African Toll Fees is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Returns current mainline toll plaza tariffs for vehicle classes 1–4 across major South African national routes, with official source citation and freshness metadata.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/toll-fees?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/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-toll-fees-077761ba
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_sXH7WehJ2UBGbAr_XUj2W

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-toll-fees-077761ba
```

Example prompt: What are the current mainline toll fees in South Africa for each vehicle class, and when were they last updated?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, cited South African mainline toll tariff data with vehicle class breakdown and freshness indicators, particularly for financial calculations, route cost estimation, or compliance reference for South African national roads. Prefer over web scraping or manual lookup because the data includes an official source URL and effective date.

## Known failure modes

- Tariff data not yet updated after official SANRAL adjustment — freshness flag will indicate stale data
- API unavailable or payment authorization failure — HTTP 402 or 5xx error
- No query parameters accepted; incorrect input structure may return 400 error

## How this service works

South African Toll fees (Mainline toll plaza tariffs (vehicle classes 1-4) for the major national routes, current adjustment.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.

## Output

A clean JSON object containing current mainline toll plaza tariff schedules for vehicle classes 1–4 across major South African national routes, the effective date of the tariffs, a URL to the official government source, 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": "toll-fees",
  "source_url": "https://www.nra.co.za/uploads/17/SANRAL%20Toll%20Tariff%202026%20A3%20Poster%20v2.pdf",
  "effective_date": "2026-03-01"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-toll-fees-077761ba/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)