Rates Us Debt
by Saylor Innovations Data Desk in Markets & finance
US national debt - total public debt outstanding to the penny with 30-day and 1-year change and average daily increase
https://saylorinnovations.com/api/rates/us-debt- Price
- $0.01
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 949 ms
- 1.3 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/rates/us-debt
Each call costs $0.01 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
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GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/rates/us-debtExample response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"as_of": "2026-10-08",
"average_daily_increase_usd": 7374180846,
"change_1y_pct": 6.45,
"change_1y_usd": 2441478344238,
"change_30d_pct": 0.55,
"change_30d_usd": 221225425383,
"held_by_public_usd": 32454086117711,
"intragovernmental_usd": 7851230093118,
"source": "U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data (Debt to the Penny)",
"total_public_debt_usd": 40305316210830
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.01.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://saylorinnovations.com/api/rates/us-debt'
# 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://saylorinnovations.com/api/rates/us-debt' \
| 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 $0.01 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.01" });
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 $0.01 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsaylorinnovations.com%2Fapi%2Frates%2Fus-debt
const res = await pay("https://saylorinnovations.com/api/rates/us-debt");
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 $0.01 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.01"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://saylorinnovations.com/api/rates/us-debt")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 h ago | Passed | 402 | 898 ms | $0.01 |
| 7 h ago | Passed | 402 | 979 ms | $0.01 |
| 12 h ago | Passed | 402 | 949 ms | $0.01 |
| 17 h ago | Passed | 402 | 985 ms | $0.01 |
| 22 h ago | Passed | 402 | 931 ms | $0.01 |
Show 2 older checks
| 26 h ago | Passed | 402 | 1.3 s | $0.01 |
| 31 h ago | Passed | 402 | 890 ms | $0.01 |