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FXRatesAPI is a foreign exchange rates REST API that delivers real-time and historical currency exchange rates for 185+ fiat currencies plus major cryptocurrencies and precious metals. It exposes JSON endpoints for the latest rates, historical rates for any past date, time-series ranges, currency conversion, and a currencies list. All endpoints are served from a single base host, https://api.fxratesapi.com, over HTTPS (HTTP/2, TLS 1.3).

Access Model (read this first)

  • Free / limited tier — no API key required. During this review (2026-07-12) GET /latest, /historical, /timeseries, /convert, and /currencies all returned HTTP 200 with valid JSON when called anonymously. An obviously invalid api_key value was ignored (the request still succeeded as anonymous) rather than rejected.
  • Paid tiers — API key required for the good stuff. Higher monthly request quotas, more frequent rate updates, base-currency switching, and full historical depth are gated behind a paid API key, per the pricing page.
  • How the key is passed: as the api_key query parameter (confirmed accepted, HTTP 200) or as an Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY header (per the authentication docs).
  • Pricing values are not reconciled. The fxratesapi.com/pricing page is client-rendered and could not be read without signing in, so exact tier names, prices, and quotas in plans/ and finops/ are modeled and marked reconciled: false.

APIs.json: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fxratesapi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

Tags

  • Foreign Exchange
  • FX
  • Currency
  • Exchange Rates
  • Forex
  • Currency Conversion
  • Historical Rates
  • Financial Data
  • Cryptocurrencies

Timestamps

  • Created: 2026-07-12
  • Modified: 2026-07-12

APIs

All five APIs below were confirmed by live probing of the API on 2026-07-12. Base URL for every endpoint is https://api.fxratesapi.com.

FXRatesAPI Latest Rates API

Returns the most recent exchange rates for a chosen base currency against all or a selected set of currencies. GET /latest accepts base and currencies (comma-separated) query parameters.

Tags

  • Latest Rates
  • Exchange Rates
  • Real Time

Properties

FXRatesAPI Historical Rates API

Returns exchange rates as they were on a specific past date. GET /historical accepts a required date parameter plus optional base and currencies parameters.

Tags

  • Historical Rates
  • Exchange Rates
  • Time Travel

Properties

FXRatesAPI Time-Series API

Returns daily exchange rates across a date range for a base currency and a set of target currencies. GET /timeseries accepts start_date, end_date, base, and currencies parameters.

Tags

  • Time Series
  • Historical Rates
  • Ranges

Properties

FXRatesAPI Convert API

Converts an amount from one currency to another at the latest or a historical rate. GET /convert accepts from, to, amount, and an optional date parameter.

Tags

  • Currency Conversion
  • Convert
  • FX

Properties

FXRatesAPI Currencies API

Lists every supported currency with code, name, plural name, symbol, native symbol, and decimal digits. GET /currencies takes no parameters and was confirmed live returning 185 currency entries.

Tags

  • Currencies
  • Metadata
  • Symbols

Properties

Not Offered

  • No OHLC endpoint. Unlike several competing FX APIs, FXRatesAPI does not expose an open/high/low/close endpoint. GET /ohlc (and path variants) returned Endpoint Not Found, and no OHLC page appears in the docs sitemap. It is deliberately excluded from this catalog rather than modeled.
  • No WebSocket API. FXRatesAPI's public surface is entirely request/response REST over HTTPS. There is no documented WebSocket (wss://) or SSE streaming channel; rate updates are obtained by polling /latest.

Common Properties

Maintainers

FN: Kin Lane Email: kin@apievangelist.com

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FXRatesAPI is a foreign exchange rates REST API that delivers real-time and historical currency exchange rates for 185+ fiat currencies plus major cryptocurrencies and precious metals. It exposes JSON endpoints for the latest rates, historical rates for any past date, time-series ranges, currency conversion, and a currencies list.

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