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Real-time Metals API in 160+ World Currencies (plus Crypto, FX) via JSON or WebSockets. Start with 1,000,000 API calls/mo
Gold, Silver, Platinum & Palladium
Copper, Aluminium, Lead, Zinc & Nickel
9 metals, 160 currencies, 12 units, any purity.
One API call. Real-time bid/ask/spread pricing.
Get realtime pricing for Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium with our Metals API. Any currency, unit & purity.
Spot pricing for Copper, Aluminium, Nickel, Lead & Zinc. WebSocket streaming or JSON API.
Every plan ships with 1,000,000 API calls a month as standard. Need more? Top up anytime, no long-term contracts.
Access 160+ fiat currencies, 2,300+ FX trading pairs, and 500+ cryptocurrencies - all through a single, simple JSON API.
Plug fastFOREX straight into your LLM or AI agent with our native MCP Server - no custom integration required.
Stream live bid/ask data over WebSockets, with hundreds of updates per second on our most liquid trading pairs.
Get accurate midpoint exchange rates sourced from trusted banks and data providers - perfect for conversion, daily history, and time-series.
Get live bid/ask FX quotes across 2,300+ pairs, plus full quote time-series data for backtesting and analysis.
Get real-time pricing data for 4 precious (Gold, Silver, Platinum & Palladium) and 5 base metals (Copper, Aluminium, Lead, Nickel & Zinc).
For a complete list of all supported metals, units & purities, sign in to the customer console.
Use our /metals/spot conversion API to get gold and metal prices in any physical currency you need. Plus any unit of weight or purity.
Gold in INR+grams? ZAR+troy ounces? USD+18K?
All our metals data is available via JSON API, including spot prices and market quotes. Plus all the unit/weight/purity conversions.
You can stream market prices for 40+ metal instruments via WebSockets.
Slow response times are a drag. They slow down your application which leaves your customers annoyed (who needs that?). Our response times are the best in the business, which will keep you and your customers happy.
Our competitors may use weaker security, but we use SHA-256 SSL encryption to keep you and your customers safe.
We're geeks at heart, so you might not be surprised that IPv6 and HTTP/2 come as standard. What you might not expect is that our support team is on hand to answer your questions 365 days a year.
Finding a good exchange rate API (read our comprehensive comparison) can be difficult, so we've simplified it for you. We aggregate our data from 100+ FX contributors plus major OTC inter-dealer brokers and from the dealing rooms of leading market-making banks.
All accounts have access to the fastFOREX API, with live rates for over +9 Metals, 160+ world currencies and 500+ cryptocurrencies.
Get a Free API Key, and you will be able to try the complete service for the entire duration of your 7-day free trial.
Once your seven day free trial is over, upgrade to our paid plan.
We had intermittent failures with our previous currency exchange API provider. We decided to change to fastFOREX. The setup was easy, and we always get fast response times. That’s all we need.
Esteban Tósta, Beyond Bath & Bed
We certainly do - with no Credit Card required! Get your Free Trial API Key, and you will be able to try the complete service for the entire duration of your 7-day free trial.
We aggregate from 100+ FX contributors plus major OTC inter-dealer brokers (Tullett Prebon, ICAP/Parameta, Tradition, Fenics), and from the dealing rooms of leading market-making banks - including ABN AMRO, ANZ, Barclays Capital, HSBC, JPMorgan, Royal Bank of Canada, Standard Chartered, and UBS.
Each HTTP request to our API endpoints counts as a single request towards your usage quota (regardless of the number of currencies or data points returned).
The only exceptions to this are the /fetch-matrix & /fetch-many-to-one API endpoints which are charged at one request for each pair returned in the call.
There is no minimum contract period and no scary paperwork to sign.
You can view your current usage in your user console. Just log into you account to see where you are up to.
We can accept all major Credit Cards and PayPal.
If you're paying for an annual subscription, you can also pay by bank / wire transfer. If you would like to pay this way, just drop us an email and we'll hook you up with all the correct details and an invoice.
You can buy additional API calls in blocks of 1m at $18 per month. If you buy more than 6 million/month we can offer a further discount. Contact us today and we will arrange everything for you!
Yes, you can fetch a time-series dataset of currency rates with our API. Read more here.
Yes! We provide real-time pricing data on over 500 cryptocurrencies which equates to 750+ cryptocurrency pairs.
Yes! We now offer FX historial data as far back as Jan 1970. How far we go back depends on the currency pair.
Yes! We now offer realtime metals pricing (Gold, Silver, Platinum & Palladium). And base metals Copper, Aluminium, Nickel, Lead & Zinc.
Read the Metals API docs here
Yes, we offer websocket/streaming data for FX and Metals pricing WebSocket documentation.
