Material Cost

Predict material cost from project specifications.

Endpoint POST https://api.dryapi.dev/predict

Predicts material cost

Calibration 86%

MAPE 10.2%

MAE $200

R² 0.96

Latency 7ms

Cost 5 cr / call

Popularity rank #42

Pricing

Every plan includes all 17 APIs. This model costs 5 credits / call, so each plan buys the calls below.

Starter

4,000 calls / mo

100 req/min

Start with starter

Growth

30,000 calls / mo

500 req/min

Start with growth

Scale

160,000 calls / mo

2,500 req/min

Start with scale

Volume

600,000 calls / mo

8,000 req/min

Start with volume

Ultra

2,000,000 calls / mo

20,000 req/min

Start with ultra

Enterprise

Custom calls / mo

Unlimited

Start with enterprise

Calibration (coverage)

86%

Out-of-sample coverage verified on held-out data — a 86% interval really covers 86% of observations.

Data coverage

Geography US project specifications across common building systems.

Temporal Recent material pricing, refreshed monthly.

Limitations Commodity price spikes (e.g., lumber, steel) can shift costs outside model bands.

Quickstart

request — curl

curl -X POST https://api.dryapi.dev/predict \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DRYAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "construction/material/v1",
    "features": {
      // one row per input column the model expects
    }
  }'

response

{
  "value": 3.2,
  "interval": [2.8, 3.6],
  "confidence_interval": { "lower": 2.8, "upper": 3.6, "coverage": 0.86 },
  "confidence": { "level": 0.86, "score": 0.84 },
  "top_factors": [
    { "feature": "sqft", "impact": 0.42 },
    { "feature": "zip", "impact": 0.31 },
    { "feature": "beds", "impact": 0.18 }
  ]
}