Effective Annual Rate
by Effective annual rate in Markets & finance
Convert a nominal annual rate (APR) compounded m times per year into the effective annual rate (EAR / APY): (1 + apr/m)^m - 1. Set continuous:true for e^apr - 1.
POST https://agent402.tools/api/effective-annual-rate
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How to call it
POST https://agent402.tools/api/effective-annual-rate
Each call costs $0.001 in USDC on Base, 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.
POST https://agent402.tools/api/effective-annual-rate
content-type: application/json
{
"compoundingPerYear": 12,
"nominalAnnualRate": 0.12
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
compoundingPerYear | number | No | Compounding periods per year. Default 12. |
continuous | boolean | No | If true, use continuous compounding (e^apr - 1). |
nominalAnnualRate | number | Yes | Nominal annual rate / APR as decimal |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"compoundingPerYear": 12,
"effectiveAnnualRate": 0.126825,
"nominalAnnualRate": 0.12
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.001.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://agent402.tools/api/effective-annual-rate' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"compoundingPerYear":12,"nominalAnnualRate":0.12}'
# 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 - -X POST 'https://agent402.tools/api/effective-annual-rate' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"compoundingPerYear":12,"nominalAnnualRate":0.12}' \
| 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 $0.001 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.001" });
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 $0.001 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fagent402.tools%2Fapi%2Feffective-annual-rate&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://agent402.tools/api/effective-annual-rate", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"compoundingPerYear": 12,
"nominalAnnualRate": 0.12
}),
});
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 $0.001 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.001"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://agent402.tools/api/effective-annual-rate",
json={
"compoundingPerYear": 12,
"nominalAnnualRate": 0.12,
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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