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Project the cost of raising a child to 18 by spending category with income tier, siblings, inflation, and optional college.
One POST adds Cost of Raising a Child Calculator to your app, site, workflow, or agent — formula, validation, edge cases, and docs already handled.
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POST https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator/run
| Field | Type | Req. |
|---|---|---|
current_age
|
int |
— |
num_children
|
int |
— |
income_level
lower | middle | higher
|
str |
— |
inflation_pct
|
float |
— |
include_college
Add 4 years of public in-state college grown at 5 percent education inflation
|
bool |
— |
annual_income
|
float | None |
— |
65536 bytes.hash_only{
"request_id": "01K...",
"tool": "cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator",
"tool_version": "2026-04-22",
"credits_used": 2,
"result": { ... }
}
1,000 free calls/mo · no card · key arrives by email
curl -X POST https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator/run \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"current_age":0,"num_children":1,"income_level":"middle","inflation_pct":3}'
import requests
resp = requests.post(
'https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator/run',
headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY'},
json={'current_age': 0, 'num_children': 1, 'income_level': 'middle', 'inflation_pct': 3},
)
resp.raise_for_status()
data = resp.json()
print(data)
const resp = await fetch(
'https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator/run',
{
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({"current_age":0,"num_children":1,"income_level":"middle","inflation_pct":3}),
}
);
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);
<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator/run');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
'Authorization: Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY',
'Content-Type: application/json',
],
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'current_age' => 0,
'num_children' => 1,
'income_level' => 'middle',
'inflation_pct' => 3
]),
]);
$resp = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r(json_decode($resp, true));
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'uri'
uri = URI('https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator/run')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = (uri.scheme == 'https')
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
req['Authorization'] = 'Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY'
req['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
req.body = {
'current_age' => 0,
'num_children' => 1,
'income_level' => 'middle',
'inflation_pct' => 3
}.to_json
resp = http.request(req)
puts JSON.parse(resp.body).inspect
package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]interface{}{
"current_age": 0,
"num_children": 1,
"income_level": "middle",
"inflation_pct": 3,
})
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator/run", bytes.NewReader(body))
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY")
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil { panic(err) }
defer resp.Body.Close()
out, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
fmt.Println(string(out))
}
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.*;
var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
var req = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator/run"))
.header("Authorization", "Bearer mwt_live_YOUR_KEY")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("{\"current_age\":0,\"num_children\":1,\"income_level\":\"middle\",\"inflation_pct\":3}"))
.build();
var resp = client.send(req, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(resp.body());
https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/tools/cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator/run
Authorization: Bearer <key> and Content-Type: application/json. Copy-paste snippets in 7 languages are under Code examples.
{request_id, tool, tool_version, credits_used, result}. The typed output lives in result.
Project the cost of raising a child to 18 by spending category with income tier, siblings, inflation, and optional college. Use it to add this utility without rebuilding formulas, validation, examples, and documentation.
2 credits per successful call. Failed calls (validation errors, 5xx) don't bill.
Required fields: (none). Full schema at /v1/openapi.json.
Yes — same input, same output, forever. Tool version 2026-04-22; output shape is stable within a major version.
Yes. Connect to https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/mcp over the Model Context Protocol. The agent discovers `cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator` with its JSON Schema automatically, so the model can plan while MiniWebtool handles the exact tool result.
JSON with a stable envelope: `{request_id, tool, tool_version, credits_used, result}`. Errors are RFC 7807 `application/problem+json`.
Every endpoint on this site is also exposed via the
Model Context Protocol at
https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/mcp.
Claude, Cursor, and any MCP-capable agent can discover this tool
(cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator)
and its JSON Schema automatically — no client codegen.
# List tools the agent can call
curl -s https://api.miniwebtool.com/v1/mcp \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}' \
| jq '.result.tools[] | select(.name=="cost-of-raising-a-child-calculator")'