EU harmonized inflation — the latest HICP annual rate of change (the official, cross-country-comparable inflation rate) for the EU, euro area, and each member state. Pass country as a Eurostat geo code (DE, FR, EL for Greece, EA20 = euro area, EU27_2020 = EU) for one, or omit for all (sorted highest inflation first). All-items index (COICOP CP00). Source: Eurostat (free, no key). For US inflation use inflation.rates.
/api/inflation/hicpPAYMENT-SIGNATURE.The hicp API is a pay-per-call inflation endpoint built for AI agents and autonomous software. EU harmonized inflation — the latest HICP annual rate of change (the official, cross-country-comparable inflation rate) for the EU, euro area, and each member state.
There is no signup and no API key. An agent (or any HTTP client) hits the endpoint, receives an x402 "402 Payment Required" challenge, signs a sub-cent USDC payment on Base or Solana, and retries — the data comes back on the paid request. That makes it a drop-in hicp data source for an agent tool-use loop, an MCP host, or a backend that needs inflation data on demand without onboarding to yet another vendor portal.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
country | string | min 2 chars · max 10 chars · match ^[A-Za-z0-9_]+$ |
# 1. Probe with no auth → 402 envelope with PaymentRequirements curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/inflation/hicp?country=xx' # 2. Sign + retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/inflation/hicp?country=xx' \ -H 'PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: <base64-json-payload>' # Or use the canonical runner (handles probe → sign → retry): # EVM_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... node --env-file=.env.local \ # --experimental-strip-types scripts/x402-pay.ts \ # 'https://2s.io/api/inflation/hicp?country=xx'
import { TwoS } from '@2sio/sdk'
const client = new TwoS({
privateKey: process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY as `0x${string}`,
})
const result = await client.inflation.hicp({
"country": "xx"
})
console.log('endpoint:', result.endpoint)
console.log('cost:', result.costUsd, 'USDC')
console.log('tx:', result.settlement?.txHash)
console.log('data:', result.data)import os
from twosio import TwoS
client = TwoS(private_key=os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])
result = client.inflation.hicp(country="xx")
print("endpoint:", result.endpoint)
print("cost:", result.cost_usd, "USDC")
print("tx:", (result.settlement or {}).get("tx_hash"))
print("data:", result.data)// 1. Add @2sio/mcp to your MCP host config (Claude Desktop example below).
// EVM_PRIVATE_KEY funds x402 payments per call.
// claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"2sio": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@2sio/mcp"],
"env": { "EVM_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..." }
}
}
}
// 2. Once the server is running, agents call this tool via standard MCP:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "inflation.hicp",
"arguments": {
"country": "xx"
}
}
}| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
ok | boolean | one of: true |
items | array | |
total | integer | Total matching rows upstream; null when unknown. |
source | object |
{
"ok": true,
"items": [
{
"geo": "example",
"area": "example",
"annualRatePct": 1,
"period": "example"
}
],
"total": 1,
"source": {
"provider": "example",
"url": "example",
"license": "example"
}
}