Edit Distance
by Text Similarity in Other
Levenshtein and Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance (restricted and unrestricted) between two texts, with a 0 to 1 similarity.
https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/edit-distance- Price
- $0.02
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 66.7%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 505 ms
- 773 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 11 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/edit-distance
Each call costs $0.02 in USDC on Polygon, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/edit-distance?a=kitten&b=sittingParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
a | string | Yes | First text, up to 2000 characters |
b | string | Yes | Second text, up to 2000 characters |
ignoreCase | boolean | No | true to compare case-insensitively (default false: Kitten and kitten differ by 1) |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"asOf": "2026-10-12T00:50:06.605Z",
"damerauOsa": 3,
"damerauUnrestricted": 3,
"degraded": false,
"disclaimer": "Screening signal computed from the named public source. Not financial, legal or investment advice; provided as is. Verify at the source before acting.",
"ignoreCase": false,
"lengthA": 6,
"lengthB": 7,
"levenshtein": 3,
"notChecked": [
"meaning: edit distance counts character edits, not whether two texts mean the same",
"grapheme clusters: compared by Unicode code point, so an accented letter written as two code points counts as two",
"…1 more"
],
"reasons": [
"Verdict bands on Levenshtein similarity: IDENTICAL at distance 0, CLOSE at 0.8 or more, PARTLY_SIMILAR at 0.5 or more, otherwise DISTANT. The bands are a convenience, not a standard."
],
"similarity": 0.5714,
"source": "computed locally (Levenshtein 1965; Damerau 1964; Lowrance and Wagner 1975)",
"summary": "Levenshtein distance 3, similarity 0.5714 (lengths 6 and 7).",
"verdict": "PARTLY_SIMILAR"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.02.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/edit-distance?a=kitten&b=sitting'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/edit-distance?a=kitten&b=sitting' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftext-similarity.x402tookit.com%2Fedit-distance
const res = await pay("https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/edit-distance?a=kitten&b=sitting");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/edit-distance?a=kitten&b=sitting")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 h ago | Passed | 402 | 535 ms | $0.02 |
| 24 h ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 98 ms | - |
| 36 h ago | Passed | 402 | 773 ms | $0.02 |
| 2 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 102 ms | - |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 474 ms | $0.02 |
Show 10 older checks
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 635 ms | $0.02 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 575 ms | $0.02 |
| 5 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 113 ms | - |
| 5 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 110 ms | - |
| 5 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 185 ms | - |
| 5 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 156 ms | - |
| 5 days ago | Passed | 402 | 505 ms | $0.02 |
| 5 days ago | Passed | 402 | 505 ms | $0.02 |
| 6 days ago | Passed | 402 | 518 ms | $0.02 |
| 6 days ago | Passed | 402 | 558 ms | $0.02 |