Free Currency Conversion API

Our free currency conversion API is the perfect tool to handle your exchange rate conversions. Stop worrying about uptime and outdated data. Let our servers do the work and focus on more important things.

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Features

Lightning Fast
The API has been designed for performance and is backed by strong infrastructure. It responds to your requests in a fraction of a second.
High Uptime
We are constantly monitoring our service to ensure consistent uptime. Our uptime has been 99.8% over the last three months.
Historical Data (since 1999)
In addition the up-to-date currency data, we also provide historical data going back until the year 1999.

Documentation

Getting Started

The API provides several endpoints to serve different use cases. Please try the examples below and adapt them to your needs.

GET Getting the latest foreign exchange rates 

curl https://freecurrencyapi.net/api/v1/latest

GET Getting the latest foreign exchange rates for a specific base currency

The example will return the exchange for USD to all other covered currencies. 

curl https://freecurrencyapi.net/api/v1/latest?base_currency=USD

GET Getting the latest foreign exchange rates for a specific currency pair

The example will will show the exchange rate from USD to EUR. currency_pair can contain two currencies, seperated by comma. The first currency will be set as base currency. 

curl https://freecurrencyapi.net/api/v1/latest?currency_pair=USD,EUR

GET Getting the historical rates for a certain time period

The example will return all exchange rates for the USD for every day between 2019-01-01 to 2020-01-01. date_from must be greater than 1999-01-01. 

curl https://freecurrencyapi.net/api/v1/historic?base_currency=USD&date_from=2019-01-01&date_to=2020-01-01

GET Getting the historical rates for a certain time period and currency pair

The example will return all exchange rates for the USD for every day between 2019-01-01 to 2020-01-01. date_from must be greater than 1999-01-01. 

curl https://freecurrencyapi.net/api/v1/historic?currency_pair=USD,EUR&date_from=2019-01-01&date_to=2020-01-01

Please cache results whenever possible. By keeping your request load low, you enable us to keep our service without any rate limits and api key requirements. The API is provided as is and does not come with any warranty.