Overview
The endpoint returns live palladium market quotes in USD by default, calculating rates across troy ounces, grams, and kilograms. Each response includes the net 24-hour price change, direction, and last-updated timestamp. Upgrading to a paid plan lets you request prices in 172 international currencies and fetch 24-hour price extremes or hourly historical snapshots.
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The tool
Once your client is connected to the VerveContext server, this appears in its tool list as PalladiumPriceGroundingData. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.
{
"name": "PalladiumPriceGroundingData",
"arguments": {}
}Connecting
One server URL covers every source in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.
{
"mcpServers": {
"vervecontext": {
"url": "https://api.vervecontext.com/v1/mcp"
}
}
}https://api.vervecontext.com/v1/mcpPer-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.
Arguments
These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
currencyOptionalPremium | string | The currency to get the price in default USD |
hourlyOptionalPremium | boolean | Include hourly price data for the past 24 hours |
What the model gets back
The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.
{
"status": "ok",
"error": null,
"data": {
"currency": "USD",
"gram": 40.08,
"kilogram": 40075.88,
"ounce": 1246.5,
"lastUpdated": "2026-02-07T12:00:00.000Z",
"change24h": -8.2,
"change24hPct": -0.65,
"changeDirection": "down",
"high24h": 1259,
"low24h": 1241.1,
"formatted": {
"ounce": "$1,246.50",
"gram": "$40.08",
"kilogram": "$40,075.88",
"ounceWords": "one thousand, two hundred forty-seven dollars",
"kilogramWords": "forty thousand, seventy-six dollars"
}
}
}
Response fields
Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.
| Field | Type | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
currency | string | USD | ISO 4217 currency code for price values |
gram | number | 40.08 | Palladium price per gram in specified currency |
kilogram | number | 40075.88 | Palladium price per kilogram in specified currency |
ounce | number | 1246.5 | Palladium price per troy ounce in specified currency |
lastUpdated | string | 2026-02-07T12:00:00.000Z | ISO 8601 timestamp of last price update |
change24h | number | -8.2 | Price change vs 24 hours ago in currency units |
change24hPctPremium | number | -0.65 | Percentage price change vs 24 hours ago |
changeDirection | string | down | Direction of 24h change: up, down, or unchanged |
high24hPremium | number | 1259 | Highest price in the past 24 hours |
low24hPremium | number | 1241.1 | Lowest price in the past 24 hours |
formatted | object | {…} | Prices formatted for display with the currency symbol and in words |
formatted.ouncePremium | string | $1,246.50 | Formatted ounce price with currency symbol |
formatted.gramPremium | string | $40.08 | Formatted gram price with currency symbol |
formatted.kilogramPremium | string | $40,075.88 | Formatted kilogram price with currency symbol |
formatted.ounceWordsPremium | string | one thousand, two hundred forty-seven dollars | Ounce price spelled out in words with currency |
formatted.kilogramWordsPremium | string | forty thousand, seventy-six dollars | Kilogram price spelled out in words with currency |
Why ground on it
A model can produce something that looks like this answer from its training data, and be confidently out of date or simply wrong. This source returns the current value in a shape you can check, which is the difference between an answer you can cite and one you have to hedge.
Point an evaluation at gram: it is the field most worth pinning a claim to, and it is either present and current or absent — never plausibly invented.
Failure modes
Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
400 / 422 | The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one. |
401 | The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server. |
403 | Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity. |
404 | This source is not part of VerveContext. Check the catalog. |
429 | Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart. |
A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.
Use cases
- Scrap Converter Pricing
- To calculate fair scrap payouts, auto recyclers pull real-time per-gram palladium rates before bidding on spent catalytic converters.
- Bullion Dealer Dashboards
- Precious metals brokerages update retail storefronts with live spot prices per troy ounce and display 24-hour change directions.
- Industrial Procurement Alerts
- When ordering raw alloy stock, manufacturing supply software flags price swings by comparing current spot rates against 24-hour changes.
- Jewelry Asset Accounting
- Calculate the market value of workshop inventory by multiplying recorded palladium weights in grams against incoming price feeds.
Other ways to use Palladium Price Grounding Data
Set up Palladium Price Grounding Data on VerveContext, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveContext account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.
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