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Free tier: GET /catalog, plus a free email key with 50 answer calls a day, commercial use allowed. Finished answers, one cited dossier per call (supported countries vary per job; others are refused free): cost this hire (wage-floor verdict, contributions, employer cost) $0.50; charge this sale (which VAT applies, net/VAT/gross) $0.50; charge this sale certified (plus a signed VAT-rate extract) $0.75; invoice due date and statutory late interest $0.40; country evidence pack (brief plus signed extracts) $0.25; hire compare $0.75 for 2 countries, $1.00 for 3-5; next filings (VAT, PAYE, corporate-tax due dates rolled for holidays) $0.35. Also here: domain and email-security check $0.01 per domain - graded TLS certificate on port 443, Microsoft 365 tenant detection, and SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX with the exact fix records.\n\nFree trial: 3 computed-answer calls per day per IP on POST /v1/answers/* with header X-Free-Trial: 1 (without it, the normal x402 402; once used up, the 402 carries free_trial_resets_at). MCP answer tools use the trial automatically when no api_key is passed. Every series of the evaluation country is free. Card credit (same per-call price as x402): /pricing.","url":"https://afriref.dev/v1/certified/%7Bcountry%7D/%7Bseries%7D?utm_source=zero.xyz","method":"GET","headers":{},"bodySchema":{"type":"object","properties":{"properties":{"type":"string"}}},"responseSchema":null,"example":null,"exampleRequest":null,"tags":["x402"],"displayCostAmount":"0.1","displayCostAsset":"USDC","priceDynamic":false,"priceHint":null,"priceStatus":"priced","priceSource":"probe","requiresHandshake":false,"reviewCount":0,"rating":{"score":"0.00","successRate":"0.00","reviews":0,"stars":null,"state":"unrated"},"availabilityStatus":"unknown","priceObserved":null,"sessionDeposit":null,"pricing":{"kind":"static","summary":"$0.1/call","primary":{"kind":"static","protocol":"x402","network":"base","amountUsd":"0.1","per":"call","confidence":"exact"},"accepted":[{"kind":"static","protocol":"x402","network":"base","amountUsd":"0.1","per":"call","confidence":"exact"}]},"paymentMethods":[{"uid":"pm_57TRLbdlcIWovyPnjzFhA","protocol":"x402","methodType":"crypto","chain":"base","mode":"charge","costAmount":"0.1","costPer":"request","priority":0,"asset":"0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913","unit":"request","depositMicros":null,"planRef":null}],"brandName":null,"brandSlug":null,"brandBaseUrl":null,"brandDocsUrl":null,"whatItDoes":"Returns a single certified government reference data value (e.g. policy rate, VAT rate, CPI) for one African country and one data series, with official source URL and last-confirmed date","exampleAgentPrompt":"What is the current central bank policy rate for Nigeria according to afriref — pull the certified official figure with its source and last-confirmed date.","exampleUseCases":[{"title":"VAT rate check for Africa market entry","prompt":"We're launching in Kenya next quarter — can you pull the certified VAT rate for Kenya from afriref so I know what to charge customers?"},{"title":"Policy rate comparison for treasury report","prompt":"Pull the official central bank policy rate for South Africa from afriref, with the source URL and the date it was last confirmed — I need it for our treasury briefing."},{"title":"CPI inflation figure for financial model","prompt":"What's the latest CPI inflation figure for Ghana? Get it from afriref with the official source citation so I can drop it into our financial model."}],"resultDescription":"A JSON object containing the requested government reference data value for the specified African country and series, accompanied by the official government source URL, the last-confirmed date, and a staleness indicator. The response represents a single certified data point (one country, one series).","failureModes":["Country not in the 34-country coverage set — endpoint refuses and returns an error","Series not available for the requested country — partial coverage results in refusal","Stale data flag set if the value has not been re-confirmed recently","Payment failure if USDC/x402 transaction is not completed","Invalid country or series parameter format returns a validation error"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when you need a single, authoritative, source-cited government reference value for one African country and one specific data series (e.g. VAT rate, policy rate, CPI). Prefer it over general web search or LLM knowledge when you need an official citation, a last-confirmed date, and a staleness signal. Choose the country brief endpoint instead if you need all series for one country in one call, or the cross-country compare endpoint if you need one series across multiple countries.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-10-29T06:42:32.157Z","isFirstParty":false,"canonicalSlug":"afriref-certified-country-series-lookup-fa0c276c"}