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zaref

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A cited JSON API providing South African reference data for AI agents and applications, including rates, taxes, prices, tariffs, grants, government tenders, cr…

agent api endpointPricing checked daily
Agentery price verdictInsufficient peerscannot benchmark yet
Observed entry price$0.01/molowest observed monthly
Billing modelunclear
Pricing observed31 Oct 2026latest priced read of the page
Website liveness31 Oct 2026alive · separate from pricing

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…

X402MCPA2A

Official zaref links

Pricing & plans

Observed public pricing for zaref, benchmarked against comparable providers. Plans, tiers, history and scenario below.

Pricing · observed daily
per call · market position

$0.01 /call

Observed plan · market position not comparable on a monthly basis.
this agent · $0.01
$8median —$89
pricing observed 2026-10-31 · page rechecked daily · source evidence retained
What should this agent charge?

This plan sits close to the comparable median.

pricing recommendation
$0.01
$8–$89
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No monthly-comparable cohort to benchmark this plan against yet.

Pricing checks returned

Why Agentery reaches that view

price_benchmark

Not monthly-comparable.

get_provider_profile · plan history

per call observed 2026-10-31.

pricing recommendation

Percentile unavailable for this basis.

confidence

Source page rechecked daily.

Interactive provider scenario

Test a different price for this plan.

Move the proposed monthly price. Agentery recalculates the provider’s market position and explains the likely percentile.

$0.005 / month
$1 lowestmedian —$89 highest
Not comparable This plan's basis isn't monthly-comparable.
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$8–$89

Is zaref good value?

How its price compares with genuinely comparable providers.

Not enough peers

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.

Observed commercial price$0.005/mo
Niche—
Price benchmarknot applicable
What to compare instead

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 full market →
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)
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  "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",
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        ],
        "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,
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      "x402",
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      "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": {
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      "usdPerUnit": 0.005,
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      "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."
}