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ExchangeRate-API (exchangerate-api)

ExchangeRate-API is a currency exchange rates API providing authoritative daily and intraday foreign exchange rates for 161 currencies. The v6 surface includes Latest, Pair, Enriched, Historical, Supported Codes, and Quota endpoints, plus a no-API-key Open Access endpoint at open.er-api.com that requires attribution.

APIs.yml: apis.yml

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Run: Capabilities Using Naftiko

Type

  • x-type: company
  • x-tier: 3 (bulk-registered from public-apis)
  • source: public-apis/public-apis -- category: Currency Exchange

Tags

  • Currency Exchange, Foreign Exchange, Financial Data, Forex, Currency Conversion, Public APIs

Timestamps

  • Created: 2026-05-28
  • Modified: 2026-05-29

APIs

ExchangeRate-API Latest Rates API

Returns the latest exchange rates from a base currency to all 161 supported currencies. Update cadence varies by plan tier (daily on Free, hourly on Pro, every 5 minutes on Business / Volume).

Human URL: https://www.exchangerate-api.com/docs/standard-requests

Tags

  • Currency Exchange, Latest Rates, Foreign Exchange

Properties

ExchangeRate-API Pair Conversion API

Returns the exchange rate between a base and a target currency, optionally with a converted amount.

Human URL: https://www.exchangerate-api.com/docs/pair-conversion-requests

Tags

  • Currency Exchange, Pair Conversion, Foreign Exchange

Properties

ExchangeRate-API Enriched Data API

Returns the exchange rate between a base and target currency along with enriched target currency metadata (locale, two-letter country code, currency name, display symbol, flag URL). Business and Volume plans only.

Human URL: https://www.exchangerate-api.com/docs/enriched-data-requests

Tags

  • Currency Exchange, Enriched Data, Locale

Properties

ExchangeRate-API Historical Rates API

Returns historical exchange rates for a given base currency on a specific date. Full currency coverage from 2021-01-01 onward; 35 currencies available from 1990-01-01 to 2020-12-31. Pro, Business, and Volume plans only.

Human URL: https://www.exchangerate-api.com/docs/historical-data-requests

Tags

  • Currency Exchange, Historical Rates, Time Series

Properties

ExchangeRate-API Supported Codes API

Returns an array of all supported ISO 4217 currency codes and their full names.

Human URL: https://www.exchangerate-api.com/docs/supported-codes-endpoint

Tags

  • Currency Exchange, Supported Codes, ISO 4217

Properties

ExchangeRate-API Quota API

Returns the plan quota, number of requests remaining in the current billing window, and refresh metadata for the API key.

Human URL: https://www.exchangerate-api.com/docs/overview

Tags

  • Currency Exchange, Quota, Account

Properties

ExchangeRate-API Open Access API

No-API-key public endpoint at open.er-api.com providing latest exchange rates. Updates once daily; attribution to exchangerate-api.com required. Anti-abuse throttled.

Human URL: https://www.exchangerate-api.com/docs/free

Tags

  • Currency Exchange, Open Access, Free

Properties

Common Properties

Features

Name Description
Latest Rates Get latest exchange rates from a base currency to all 161 supported currencies.
Pair Conversion Direct currency-to-currency rate lookup with optional amount conversion.
Enriched Data Pair conversion plus target currency locale, name, symbol, and flag.
Historical Rates Exchange rates for any date back to 1990 (with full coverage from 2021).
Supported Codes Full ISO 4217 currency code listing with names.
Open Access Endpoint No-API-key endpoint at open.er-api.com with once-daily updates and attribution.
99.99% Uptime SLA Pingdom-measured uptime exceeded 99.99% during 2024.
161 Supported Currencies Comprehensive coverage of world fiat currencies.

Use Cases

Name Description
E-commerce Multi-currency Display Show product prices in the visitor's local currency on storefronts and checkout pages.
Cross-border Invoicing Convert invoice totals to the customer's billing currency at the time of invoice issuance.
Financial Reporting Translate revenues, costs, and balances across currencies for consolidated reporting.
Travel & Booking Platforms Show flights, hotels, and packages in the user's home currency.
Personal Finance Apps Convert account balances and transactions across currencies for travel and expense tracking.
AI / LLM Agent Currency Tools Expose currency conversion to AI agents via MCP servers and tool-use frameworks.
Historical Backtesting Use 30+ years of historical rates to backtest trading strategies and FX exposure scenarios.

Integrations

Name Description
Python Use ExchangeRate-API from Python applications via the documented HTTP API.
Node.js Community Node.js SDK published by EloquentStudio for first-class JavaScript integration.
PHP / Java / Ruby / C# / Perl / Objective-C Documented sample code for major server-side languages on the ExchangeRate-API docs site.
Spreadsheets Pull rates into Google Sheets and Excel via HTTP request functions.
MCP Servers Community-built Model Context Protocol servers expose ExchangeRate-API as a tool for LLM agents such as Claude.

Plans

Tier Monthly Requests Update Frequency Price
Free 1,500 Daily $0
Pro 30,000 Hourly $10/mo or $100/yr
Business 125,000 5 minutes $30/mo or $300/yr
Volume Custom Fastest ~$700/yr
Open Access (anti-abuse throttled) Daily Free with attribution

See plans/exchangerate-api-plans-pricing.yml for the full API Commons Plans 0.1 description.

Rate Limits

See rate-limits/exchangerate-api-rate-limits.yml.

FinOps

See finops/exchangerate-api-finops.yml.

Artifacts

Machine-readable API specifications organized by format.

OpenAPI

JSON Schema

JSON Structure

JSON-LD

Examples

  • See examples/ -- 10 operation example payloads

Rules

Vocabulary

Capabilities

Naftiko capabilities organized as self-contained business surfaces.

Maintainers

FN: Kin Lane

Email: kin@apievangelist.com

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