Melt Value

{
  "asOf": "2026-10-12T01:40:59.262Z",
  "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.",
  "meltValue": 465.11,
  "meltValueAtPayout": 465.11,
  "meltValuePerGramOfPiece": 37.5092,
  "notChecked": [
    "the live market price (you supply it)",
    "refiner fees, assay charges and dealer margins, which cut real payouts well below melt value",
    "…2 more"
  ],
  "payoutPercent": 100,
  "pieceGrams": 12.4,
  "pureMetalDwt": 4.651,
  "pureMetalGrams": 7.2333,
  "pureMetalTroyOunces": 0.23256,
  "purityPercent": 58.333,
  "reasons": [
    "Melt value is the metal content at the spot price, before any refining cost or dealer margin."
  ],
  "source": "computed locally (weight x purity x price / 31.1034768)",
  "spotPerTroyOunce": 2000,
  "summary": "12.4 g at 58.33% holds 7.233 g (0.2326 troy oz) of pure metal, worth 465.11 at 2000 per troy oz.",
  "verdict": "COMPUTED"
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://jewelry-calc.x402tookit.com/melt-value?grams=12.4&karat=14&spotPerTroyOunce=2000'

# 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://jewelry-calc.x402tookit.com/melt-value?grams=12.4&karat=14&spotPerTroyOunce=2000' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// 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%2Fjewelry-calc.x402tookit.com%2Fmelt-value
const res = await pay("https://jewelry-calc.x402tookit.com/melt-value?grams=12.4&karat=14&spotPerTroyOunce=2000");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# 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://jewelry-calc.x402tookit.com/melt-value?grams=12.4&karat=14&spotPerTroyOunce=2000")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)