Repo Prime
by zaref.dev in Markets & finance
South African Repo & prime rate (SARB repo rate and prime lending rate, South Africa's benchmark interest rates, with last MPC change date.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.
https://zaref.dev/v1/repo-prime- Price
- $0.005
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 680 ms
- 794 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://zaref.dev/v1/repo-prime
Each call costs $0.005 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.
GET https://zaref.dev/v1/repo-primeExample response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"data": "current values with citations",
"effective_date": "2026-09-25",
"series": "repo-prime",
"source_url": "https://www.resbank.co.za/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/statements/monetary-policy-statements/2026/may",
"stale": false
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.005.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://zaref.dev/v1/repo-prime'
# 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://zaref.dev/v1/repo-prime' \
| 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 $0.005 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.005" });
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 $0.005 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzaref.dev%2Fv1%2Frepo-prime
const res = await pay("https://zaref.dev/v1/repo-prime");
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 $0.005 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.005"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://zaref.dev/v1/repo-prime")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 h ago | Passed | 402 | 663 ms | $0.005 |
| 6 h ago | Passed | 402 | 653 ms | $0.005 |
| 11 h ago | Passed | 402 | 669 ms | $0.005 |
| 16 h ago | Passed | 402 | 702 ms | $0.005 |
| 20 h ago | Passed | 402 | 641 ms | $0.005 |
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| 25 h ago | Passed | 402 | 675 ms | $0.005 |
| 29 h ago | Passed | 402 | 614 ms | $0.005 |
| 33 h ago | Passed | 402 | 729 ms | $0.005 |
| 37 h ago | Passed | 402 | 686 ms | $0.005 |
| 42 h ago | Passed | 402 | 794 ms | $0.005 |
| 46 h ago | Passed | 402 | 692 ms | $0.005 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 708 ms | $0.005 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 655 ms | $0.005 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 769 ms | $0.005 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 684 ms | $0.005 |