CurrencyFreaks
- Free allowance
- Developer plan, free, no card: 1,000 API calls a month with a daily refresh at 00:00 UTC, USD as the only base currency; no daily or hourly rate limit.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1,000 API calls a month on the Developer plan
- Evidence
- documented24 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 | Developer plan, free, no card: 1,000 API calls a month with a daily refresh at 00:00 UTC, USD as the only base currency; no daily or hourly rate limit. unit requests; metered on request-count; The free key returns latest rates and the symbol endpoints only; historical rates need a paid plan, from Starter at USD 9.99 a month for 15,000 calls. The supported-currencies, currency-symbols and historical-data-limits endpoints need no key. The monthly quota may be spent in one day. At the free limit one email goes out and the API stops serving until the next month. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Rate: no daily or hourly limit on any plan. Bulk path: none on the free key; the time series and fluctuation endpoints need Professional at USD 99.99 a month, and the vendor blog shows a Python loop that writes the series to CSV. |
| Binding | volume-quota The monthly count of 1,000 is the only limit, so it binds; the quota may be spent in one day. |
| Identity | email Free sign-up with Google or GitHub, or an email; no card. The terms say to sign up with a real company or personal email, that disposable addresses and shared mailboxes are deleted, and that accounts made by automated methods are removed. The sign-up runs on the vendor's APIFreaks platform. |
| Egress | not metered in bytes; the 1,000 calls a month bound what a free key can pull |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Interface | rest GET https://api.currencyfreaks.com/v2.0/rates/latest?apikey=KEY; JSON, or XML with format=xml |
| Tooling | curl or any HTTP client |
| Composes with | Daily rates for 1,000+ currencies at 1,000 calls a month; one call returns all currencies, so a daily pull uses about 30. |
| Reliability | At the free limit the API stops serving until the next month; one email notice is sent at 100 percent. |
| Notes | Free requests: 1,000 a month. Rate limit: none per day or hour. Bulk path: none on the free key. |
| Evidence note | documented Quota, refresh, history gate and sign-up fields are read from first-party pricing, docs, FAQ, llms.txt and terms pages. No key was created. |
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Evidence 24
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/pricing | the Developer plan is 1,000 API calls a month |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/pricing | the Developer plan refreshes every 24 hours |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/pricing | the Developer plan has USD as the base currency |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/pricing | free start with no card |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/pricing | no daily or hourly throttle |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/pricing | Starter allows 15,000 calls a month |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/documentation | no daily or hourly rate limits; the quota may be spent in a day |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/documentation | sign-up needs no card |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/faqs | the free plan stops at its limit after one notice |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/faqs | the free refresh is at 12:00 AM UTC |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/faqs | the source currency is fixed on the free plan |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/blog/Historical-Forex-Data-for-Scalable-D | history needs a paid plan |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/blog/Historical-Forex-Data-for-Scalable-D | time series and fluctuation need Professional |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/llms.txt | sign-up offers Google and GitHub |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/signup.md | the sign-up page says free and no card |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/tos | disposable and shared emails are deleted |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/tos | accounts made by automated methods are removed |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/tos | not published |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/llms.txt | the coverage is 166 fiat, 873 crypto and 4 metals |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/pricing | Starter is USD 9.99 a month |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/pricing | Professional is USD 99.99 a month |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/llms.txt | three metadata endpoints need no key |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/blog/Historical-Forex-Data-for-Scalable-D | the vendor blog shows a Python script that writes the series to CSV or Excel |
| 2026-11-02 | currencyfreaks.com/signup.md | the sign-up page is the APIFreaks platform |
More fields 3
| bulk path | none on the free key; time series needs Professional |
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| free requests | 1,000 a month |
| history depth | none on the free key; back to 1984-11-28 on paid plans |
Unknown values 1
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer