CurrencyApi (currencyapi.net)
- Free allowance
- Free plan, USD 0, no card: 500 monthly requests, 10 requests a minute, 1 API key, live rates updated every 60 minutes with a fixed base currency, no historical rates.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota500 monthly requests on the Free plan
- Evidence
- documented19 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | Free plan, USD 0, no card: 500 monthly requests, 10 requests a minute, 1 API key, live rates updated every 60 minutes with a fixed base currency, no historical rates. unit requests; metered on request-count; Crypto rates for 12 assets are in the same live rates call on every plan, the free plan included. Essential is USD 9.99 a month for 20,000 requests and adds convert, history from 2000, any base currency. The pricing page and the free-API page disagree on the free plan's feature bullets, because the free-API page lost its check and cross marks in text; the pricing page and the FAQ on the free-API page both say live rates only. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
History: none on the free plan; history from 2000 starts on Essential and the timeframe range on StartUp. Bulk path: none on the free plan. |
| Binding | volume-quota 500 requests a month ends first: the 10 a minute rate would spend it in 50 minutes. |
| Identity | email The free-API page says to sign up with an email and that no credit card is required. The form fields are unverified: no copy of the sign-up page is in the sources. |
| Egress | not metered in bytes; the 500 requests a month bound what a free key can pull |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Interface | rest GET https://currencyapi.net/api/v2/rates?key=KEY&base=USD&output=JSON; JSON or XML endpoint: https://currencyapi.net/api/v2/rates |
| Tooling | curl or any HTTP client; vendor SDKs for Python, Node.js, PHP and Go |
| Composes with | Hourly live fiat and crypto rates at 500 a month is about 16 a day, so an hourly poll does not fit; a few polls a day do. |
| Reliability | The docs list HTTP 429 among the error codes; the free-plan cut-off behaviour was not read. |
| Notes | Free requests: 500 a month. Rate limit: 10 requests a minute. No caching clause was found. Bulk path: none on the free plan; the timeframe range endpoint starts on StartUp. |
| Evidence note | documented Plan numbers come from the pricing page and the free-API FAQ. The sign-up form fields and the free plan's cut-off are unverified; no key was created. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 19
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/pricing/ | the free plan is 500 monthly requests |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/pricing/ | the free plan is 10 requests a minute |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/pricing/ | free rates update every 60 minutes |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/pricing/ | the free plan has no historical rates |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/pricing/ | the free plan has a fixed base currency |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/pricing/ | not published |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/pricing/ | the free plan is not |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/pricing/ | Essential allows 20,000 monthly requests |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/free-exchange-rate-api/ | free sign-up is by email with no card |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/free-exchange-rate-api/ | free accounts are limited to 10 a minute and 500 a month |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/free-exchange-rate-api/ | the free plan has live rates only |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/cryptocurrency-exchange-rate-api/ | live crypto rates are on the free plan |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/cryptocurrency-exchange-rate-api/ | the API covers 12 crypto assets |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/terms/ | not published |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/terms/ | not published |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/historical-exchange-rate-api/ | part of the text of Notes, above |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/pricing/ | Essential is USD 9.99 a month |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/free-exchange-rate-api/ | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyapi.net/free-exchange-rate-api/ | the vendor provides SDKs for Python, Node.js, PHP and Go |
More fields 3
| bulk path | none on the free plan; /api/v2/timeframe starts on StartUp |
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| free requests | 500 a month, 10 a minute |
| history depth | none on the free plan; from 2000 on Essential |
Unknown values 1
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer