zaref
A cited JSON API providing South African reference data for AI agents and applications, including rates, taxes, prices, tariffs, grants, government tenders, cr…
What it does
The specific capability behind this listing, and where to get it.
zaref
A cited JSON API providing South African reference data for AI agents and applications, including rates, taxes, prices, tariffs, grants, government tenders, cr…
Official zaref links
Pricing & plans
Observed public pricing for zaref, benchmarked against comparable providers. Plans, tiers, history and scenario below.
$0.01 /call
This plan sits close to the comparable median.
No monthly-comparable cohort to benchmark this plan against yet.
Why Agentery reaches that view
price_benchmarkNot monthly-comparable.
get_provider_profile · plan historyper call observed 2026-10-31.
pricing recommendationPercentile unavailable for this basis.
confidenceSource page rechecked daily.
Test a different price for this plan.
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Is zaref good value?
How its price compares with genuinely comparable providers.
Not enough evidence yet to call it good — or poor — value.
Too few comparable providers at the same buyer tier and billing unit to benchmark this price honestly.
Check capability before deciding
Compare capability, compatibility and operational cost against the few observed peers — Agentery keeps the price status explicit and never invents a verdict.
zaref's local market
Nearest products by what they do — a different cohort from the buyer-tier benchmark above.
See the MCP response behind this page · get_provider_profile()
See the MCP response behind this pageget_provider_profile (get_agent_profile remains a callable alias)
{
"agent_id": "zaref",
"name": "zaref",
"url": "https://zaref.dev/",
"logo": "https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=zaref.dev&sz=128",
"niche": null,
"category": null,
"short_summary": "A cited JSON API providing South African reference data for AI agents and applications, including rates, taxes, prices, tariffs, grants, government tenders, cr…",
"task_performed": "unclear",
"inputs_accepted": [],
"outputs_produced": [],
"integrations_available": [],
"protocols_or_interfaces": [
"X402",
"MCP",
"A2A"
],
"industry_fit": [],
"autonomy_level": "unclear",
"human_approval_needed": "unclear",
"pricing_model": "unclear",
"price": {
"observed": true,
"billing": "freemium",
"source_kind": "vendor",
"currency": "USD",
"lowest_monthly_usd": null,
"monthly_usd": null,
"headline": "$0.01 per call (usage-based)",
"commercial": {
"rates": [
{
"line": "Paid API calls",
"per": "per call",
"text": "$0.01 per call"
}
],
"currency": "USD",
"lines": [
{
"name": "Free series",
"price": "Free",
"kind": "free",
"billed": "monthly"
},
{
"name": "Paid API calls",
"price": "$0.005/call",
"kind": "usage_rate",
"unit": "call",
"billed": "usage"
}
]
},
"summary": "$0.01 per call (usage-based). The service offers explicitly free series and paid API access at $0.005 per call for the endpoints shown.",
"confidence": "high",
"source_url": "https://zaref.dev/",
"checked_at": "2026-10-31T03:06:29.531Z",
"amount": null,
"display": null,
"plans": [
{
"name": "Free series",
"price": "Free",
"period": null,
"persona": "free",
"highlights": [
"Free endpoints need no wallet",
"No payment needed"
],
"promo_note": null,
"price_promo": null,
"price_annual": null
},
{
"name": "Paid API calls",
"price": "$0.005/call",
"usage": true,
"period": "usage",
"persona": "individual",
"highlights": [
"Paid series reply 402 with payment instructions in the headers"
],
"promo_note": null,
"price_promo": null,
"price_annual": null
}
],
"source": "render+llm"
},
"trust_or_rating_signal": [],
"evidence_quality": "unclear",
"entity_type": "agent_api_endpoint",
"regulated_data_suitability": "unclear",
"evidence_urls": [
"https://zaref.dev/"
],
"last_checked": "2026-10-31",
"profile_checked": null,
"price_checked": "2026-10-31",
"how_to_connect": {
"website": "https://zaref.dev/",
"docs": null,
"mcp": null,
"a2a": null,
"api": null,
"protocols": [
"x402",
"MCP",
"A2A"
],
"install": null,
"repository": null,
"note": "Speaks x402, MCP, A2A but publishes no endpoint we could verify — check the docs/website."
},
"deployment": {
"model": "unknown",
"both_offered": false,
"hosted_endpoint": null,
"install": null,
"note": "No deployment evidence held — Agentery has no endpoint, install instruction or directory attribute for this listing.",
"evidence": null
},
"licence": {
"name": null,
"note": "No named licence found in the retained page text or source attributes. A public repository alone does not establish an open-source licence.",
"evidence": null
},
"evidence_checks": {
"price": {
"source_url": "https://zaref.dev/",
"last_observed_day": "2026-10-31",
"age_days": 1,
"verified_day": null,
"note": "from the listing's current price record; no separate page-text verification is held"
},
"agent_card": {
"status": "unknown",
"note": "no Agent Card URL recorded for this listing"
},
"endpoint": {
"status": "unknown",
"note": "endpoint not yet checked"
}
},
"product_group": null,
"liveness": {
"probed": true,
"alive": true,
"endpoint_kind": "site",
"latency_ms": 672,
"uptime_7d": 1,
"checked_at": "2026-10-31T02:47:08.577Z",
"consecutive_failures": 0,
"status": "alive"
},
"price_extras": {
"free_tier": null,
"unit_cost": {
"usdPerUnit": 0.005,
"unit": "calls",
"usdPer1k": 5,
"raw": "$0.005/call",
"plan": "Paid API calls"
}
},
"reported_success": null,
"a2a_check": {
"checked_on": "2026-10-16",
"card_url": "https://zaref.dev/.well-known/agent.json",
"card_name": "zaref",
"declared_version": null,
"endpoint": "https://zaref.dev",
"skills": [
"fuel-prices",
"repo-prime",
"cpi",
"income-tax",
"vat",
"uif-oid",
"minimum-wage",
"public-holidays",
"school-terms",
"sassa-grants",
"travel-rates",
"tax-rates-other"
],
"findings": [
{
"label": "Protocol version",
"value": "Not stated in the agent card",
"ok": null
}
],
"vendor_published": null,
"note": "Automated check of the vendor's public A2A agent card and endpoint. The check reads the card and sends an empty JSON-RPC request; it delivers no message. Vendor quotes are copied word for word from the card or its documentation."
},
"feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
}