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Forex API: live currency, FX and metals data, without enterprise pricing
Our forex data API delivers midpoint rates for 170+ currencies through one exchange rate API, plus live bid/ask across 2,300+ FX pairs for forex market data, 500+ crypto assets, real-time gold, silver and base metals, and over 55 years of FX history. Every plan includes 1 million API calls, from $18/month.
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{
"base": "USD",
"results": {
"EUR": 0.893635,
"GBP": 0.757206,
"CHF": 0.8334
},
"updated": "2026-10-08T15:53:27Z",
"ms": 9
}Trusted by 37,000+ registered developers at companies like
"So far, it's been an awesome experience.Everything is well documented, and the MCP server is a great touch. Performance-wise, it's excellent - it just works exactly as expected."
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MrProfit Co.
37,000+ developers since 2020
Everything you need from a forex data API.
A forex API for developers, used by over 37,000 registered developers worldwide. We provide a fast, reliable API for your application.
Rates that never sleep
Midpoint rates update every 60, 30, or 1 second by plan. Crypto refreshes every second on every plan, always.
170+ currencies, one API
Access 170+ fiat currencies, 2,300+ FX trading pairs, and 500+ cryptocurrencies, all through a single, simple JSON API.
Real-time bid/ask pricing
A real-time forex API on Premium: live bid/ask FX quotes across 2,300+ pairs, plus full quote time-series data for backtesting and analysis.
Streaming rates, no polling
Stream live bid/ask data over WebSockets, with hundreds of updates per second on our most liquid trading pairs.
Built for AI agents
Plug fastFOREX API straight into your LLM or AI agent with our native MCP Server. No custom integration required.
Gold Price API
Realtime pricing for Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium with our Metals API, in any currency, unit and purity.
Use cases
Who uses fastFOREX API.
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SaaS & Software
Add multi-currency to your product without building a rates pipeline.
Show prices, invoices and reports in your customers' own currencies. It's one plain JSON API that works from any language or framework, so it fits whatever stack you already have.
GET /convert?from=USD&to=EUR&amount=49
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Billing
Team plan
5 seats · billed monthly
44,03 €/ month
Shown in EUR, converted from US$49.00 at today's rate.
Illustration with example rates. Your app converts prices in one call.
Payments
Quote cross-border payments with rates you can explain.
Show senders what they'll pay and recipients what they'll receive, in 170+ currencies. Midpoint rates are sourced from banks, inter-dealer brokers and 100+ FX contributors, so the number on screen has a story behind it.
GET /convert?from=GBP&to=EUR&amount=1000
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Send money
- You send
- £1,000.00
- Reference rate (fastFOREX midpoint)
- 1 GBP = 1.1955 EUR
- Your fee example, set by you
- £4.99
- They receive
- 1.195,50 €
- You pay
- £1,004.99
Illustration with an example rate and fee. Your app quotes live rates in one call.
FX & Trading
Market data for platforms, charts and strategies, not just converters.
Live bid/ask quotes on 2,300+ FX pairs, OHLC candles down to the minute and over 55 years of history, for charting, risk checks and backtesting. Stream it over WebSockets if you'd rather have prices pushed than polled.
GET /fx/quote?pairs=EURUSD
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Bid
1.11318
Ask
1.11324
EUR/USD · daily candlesspread 0.6 pips
Illustration with example prices. Your platform gets live bid/ask and OHLC from the API, or streams it.
Crypto & Web3
Price any coin in any currency, from the same API.
500+ cryptocurrencies across 750+ pairs, refreshed every second on every plan and aggregated from major exchanges. Show wallet balances, swaps and portfolios in your users' local currency without stitching two data sources together.
GET /crypto/fetch-prices?pairs=BTC/USD,ETH/USD,USDC/USD
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Portfolio value
$28,193
- Bitcoin0.25 BTC$19,525
- Ether3.2 ETH$7,168
- USD Coin1,500 USDC$1,500
Illustration with example prices. Your app prices any coin in any currency in one call.
E-commerce
Show every shopper a price in their own currency.
Local-currency prices at checkout, in seller dashboards and in payout reports. Rates refresh every 60 seconds even on the entry plan, and one request returns as many currencies as you need.
GET /fetch-multi?from=USD&to=EUR,GBP,INR,CHF
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Audio
Studio headphones
$129.00
Illustration with example rates. Your store fetches live ones in one call.
Banking & Accounting
Revalue, reconcile and report in more than one currency.
Multi-currency ledgers, loan books and statements need the right rate for the right day. Look up a historical rate for any date (back to 1970 for major pairs), or pull a whole date range in one request.
GET /historical?date=2026-09-11&from=EUR&to=GBP
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Invoice INV-2041
Müller GmbH · dated 11 Sep 2026
- Invoice total
- 8.450,00 €
- Booked at 11 Sep rate 1 EUR = 0.8582 GBP
- £7,251.79
- Revalued at today's rate 1 EUR = 0.8358 GBP
- £7,062.51
- FX difference
- -£189.28
Illustration with example rates. Your ledger looks up the historical rate for any date in one call.
Travel
Prices your travellers understand, wherever they're booking from.
Show fares, rooms and packages in a traveller's own currency, and convert supplier costs at the moment of booking. Fast responses keep search results snappy.
GET /fetch-multi?from=EUR&to=GBP
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Lisbon · 3 hotels
12–15 Nov · 2 guests
- Casa do RioAlfama · ★★★★£119per night
- Hotel MiradouroBairro Alto · ★★★£80per night
- Palácio BelémBelém · ★★★★★£176per night
Illustration with example rates. Your site converts a whole results page in one call.
iGaming
Players in every currency, and crypto too.
Offer deposits, balances and odds in local currencies and in crypto from one integration. Crypto prices refresh every second on every plan, and fiat rates can update as often as every second on Premium.
GET /crypto/fetch-prices?pairs=BTC/EUR,ETH/EUR
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Balance
250,00 €
Show balance in
Illustration with example prices. Your platform prices fiat and crypto from one API.
Marketing & Media
Report spend and revenue across currencies without the spreadsheet.
Ad spend, sponsorships and subscriptions arrive in different currencies. Convert them once for dashboards and client reports, using today's rate or the rate on the day it happened.
GET /fetch-multi?from=GBP&to=USD,EUR
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October spend
£19,951
- Search ads billed in USD£9,312
- Social ads billed in EUR£7,439
- Video ads billed in GBP£3,200
Illustration with example rates. Your reports convert every currency in one call.
Logistics
Quote freight in one currency and reconcile invoices in another.
Carriers, suppliers and customers all invoice in their own currency. Convert at quote time, then look up the historical rate later to reconcile what was actually billed.
GET /historical?date=2026-09-15&from=CNY&to=EUR
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Shipment SH-7731
Shanghai → Rotterdam · 40ft container
- Carrier invoice
- ¥42,800.00
- Quoted on 15 Sep
- 5.526,76 €
- Invoiced today
- 5.772,44 €
- Currency difference
- 245,68 €
Illustration with example rates. Your system looks up the rate for any date in one call.
Build faster
One API for FX, crypto and metals.
Fetch rates your way
Choose fetch-one, fetch-multi, fetch-all, fetch-matrix, or fetch-many-to-one to pull exactly the currency data your application needs, nothing more.
Any fiat, any crypto
Convert between any fiat and crypto pair, with 500+ cryptocurrencies updated every second, on every plan, no exceptions.
Copper & base metals
Spot pricing for Copper, Aluminium, Nickel, Lead & Zinc, over the JSON API or streamed live via WebSockets.
1M calls included
Every plan ships with 1,000,000 API calls a month as standard. Need more? Top up anytime, no long-term contracts.
Trust the numbers
Data you can chart, test and rely on.
Trusted midpoint rates
Accurate midpoint exchange rates sourced from trusted banks and data providers, perfect for conversion, daily history, and time-series.
OHLC, down to the minute
Open, High, Low, Close data across daily, hourly, and minute intervals, with everything you need to chart FX price action.
55+ years of history
Historical data stretching back to 1970 for select pairs, available daily, hourly, or by the minute. Start dates vary by pair.
Tick history, on request
Millions of price updates a day on our most liquid FX pairs and metals, with true tick-level history available on request.
How it works
Get a key. Make a call. Done.
Step 1
Create your API key
Sign up with just an email (no credit card). Your 7-day trial includes full-feature access.
Step 2
Make your first call
One GET request returns clean JSON, with a 4ms average server response.
Step 3
Ship with confidence
1,000,000 API calls a month are included on every plan, from $18/month.
Built for speed. Priced for scale.
4ms
Average server response time
55+ yrs
Of historical FX data, to 1970
5-star reviews
What our customers say.
"Thanks for a great service!"
Pouya Athari
Peach Business Software
"We have been using fastFOREX for nearly a year and value the service!"
Matan Aivas
Data Scientist, University of Oxford
"The data structure returned by this endpoint is clear and comprehensive. Thank you once again for your great support!"
CTO
Consensus Cloud Solutions
"We would like to continue using fastFOREX and proceed with the subscription renewal!"
Shoko Yamakawa
Sustech Inc.
Frequently asked questions.
Everything you need to know about the API, pricing and data. Can't find an answer? Our support team replies 365 days a year.
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