$ man price-impact
/price-impact(1)
PRICE / CALL
$0.005
USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact
METHOD
POST
CLUSTER
edgemarketCATEGORY
uncategorized
STATUS
● live
NAME
price-impact — price-impact / slippage estimator / dex swap size impact / size-keyed quote / depth simulation
SYNOPSIS
POST https://x402.org/v1/price-impact
Content-Type: application/json
X-PAYMENT: <signed-transferWithAuthorization>
{ ... }↳ first call →
402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.DESCRIPTION
Price-impact / slippage estimator / DEX swap size impact / size-keyed quote / depth simulation. For a (from_token, to_token, chain), pulls aggregator quotes (LlamaSwap meta-aggregator, free public) at multiple USD sizes and reports per-size effective price + slippage versus the smallest size. Use to size a fill before submitting it on-chain.
INPUT — request schema
| property | type | description | req? |
|---|---|---|---|
| from_token | string | 0x-prefixed 20-byte ERC-20 input token. | required |
| to_token | string | 0x-prefixed 20-byte ERC-20 output token. | required |
| chain | string | EVM chain. Default 'base'. enum: base · ethereum · polygon · arbitrum · optimism | optional |
| sizes_usd | array | USD sizes to quote at, sorted ascending. Up to 5. Default [100, 1000, 10000]. | optional |
OUTPUT — response shape
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| from_token | string | Source token address (or symbol) being sold in the simulated swap. |
| to_token | string | Destination token address (or symbol) being bought in the simulated swap. |
| chain | string | Chain the quote is sourced on (e.g. ethereum, base, arbitrum). |
| from_usd_price | string | Spot USD price of from_token used to convert requested USD sizes into token amounts. |
| from_decimals | string | ERC-20 decimals of from_token, used to scale amounts passed to the aggregator. |
| quotes | string | Array of per-size entries with USD size, effective price, and slippage versus the smallest probe size. |
| source | string | Aggregator that produced the quotes (LlamaSwap meta-aggregator across DEX routers). |
EXAMPLES — two ways to call
EXAMPLE 1 · curl
curl -X POST https://x402.org/v1/price-impact \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{ }'first response =
402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.EXAMPLE 2 · mcp
# install once claude mcp add x402 --command "npx x402-deployer-mcp" # then ask Claude Code: # "use the price-impact tool to ..."
MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.
METADATA
- tags
- edge-marketdexslippageprice-impactswap-quotedepth-simulationaggregatortrade-sizing
- methods
- POST
- cluster
- edgemarket
- price
- $0.005 USDC per call
ADJACENT — other endpoints in edgemarket
| endpoint | description | price |
|---|---|---|
| agent-card-resolve | Agent card resolver / ERC-8004 Identity Registry lookup / Trustless Agents / agentId → owner + agentURI / A2A identity / agent.json fetch… | $0.005 |
| arbitrage-spread | Cross-exchange arbitrage spread / max-min price / CEX price dispersion / spread % calculator. | $0.005 |
| basename-resolve | Basename resolver / Coinbase Basenames / .base.eth lookup / Base name service / on-chain name resolution. | $0.005 |
| defi-yield-pools | DeFi yield pools / APY aggregator / yield-farming opportunities / DeFiLlama yields / cross-protocol APY ranking / stablecoin yields / LP… | $0.005 |
| ipfs-fetch | IPFS fetch / IPFS gateway / Web3 storage retrieval / NFT metadata fetcher / Filecoin gateway / decentralized content / pinned-content reader. | $0.005 |
| safe-multisig-status | Safe multisig status / Gnosis Safe info / Safe owners / Safe threshold / Safe pending queue / DAO treasury wallet / Safe wallet lookup. | $0.005 |
| stablecoin-monitor | Stablecoin monitor. | $0.005 |
| stablecoin-peg | Stablecoin peg monitor / depeg detector. | $0.005 |
SEE ALSO