FxRatesAPI
- Free allowance
- Free plan, USD 0, no card: 1k requests a month and 60 requests an hour, hourly updates, all base currencies.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1k requests a month on the Free plan
- Evidence
- documented17 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: 1k requests a month and 60 requests an hour, hourly updates, all base currencies. unit requests; metered on request-count; Standard is USD 10 a month for 10k requests, 10-minute updates, no rate limit, historical data back to 1999 and a conversion endpoint, listed as features added to the free ones. Professional is USD 30 a month for 500k requests and adds time series. The pricing page says 1999 for history and the home page says 1990. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
History: the pricing page lists historical data as a Standard feature added to the free ones; whether the Free plan can call the historical endpoint was not readable, because the endpoint list lost its check and cross marks. Bulk path: none on the free plan; time series starts on Professional. |
| Binding | volume-quota 1k requests a month ends first: 60 an hour would spend it in about 17 hours. |
| Identity | email The docs say to sign up for an account to get an API key, and the pricing page says no credit card is needed. The form fields are unverified: no sign-up page was found. |
| Egress | not metered in bytes; the 1k requests a month bound what a free key can pull |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Interface | rest GET https://api.fxratesapi.com/latest?api_key=KEY with base, currencies and resolution parameters; JSON, XML or TSV endpoint: https://api.fxratesapi.com/latest |
| Tooling | curl or any HTTP client |
| Composes with | Hourly rates at 60 requests an hour and 1k a month: a poll every hour would spend 720 of the 1k. |
| Reliability | The free plan's behaviour past its limits was not read; the pricing page names no rate limit on paid plans. |
| Notes | Free requests: 1k a month. Rate limit: 60 requests an hour. End users may not store or distribute the data. Bulk path: none on the free plan. |
| Evidence note | documented Quota, rate and plan fields are quoted from the first-party pricing page; the sign-up step from the docs. The sign-up form fields and the free plan's history access are unverified. No key was created. |
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Evidence 17
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/pricing | the Free plan is 1k requests a month |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/pricing | the Free plan is 60 requests an hour |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/pricing | the Free plan updates hourly |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/pricing | the pricing page says no card is needed |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/pricing | Standard allows 10k requests a month |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/pricing | Standard adds historical data back to 1999 |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/pricing | the Standard feature list is the free features plus its own |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/pricing | Standard has no rate limits |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/docs | an account on the website gives the API key |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/ | the home page gives history back to 1990 |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/legal/terms-conditions | part of the text of Notes, above |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/legal/terms-conditions | the data may not be used or stored after termination |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/pricing | Standard is USD 10 a month |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/pricing | Professional allows 500k requests a month |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/pricing | Professional adds time series data |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/docs/endpoints/latest-exchange-rates | the latest endpoint answers in JSON, XML or TSV |
| 2026-11-02 | fxratesapi.com/docs | the key goes in the api_key parameter |
More fields 3
| bulk path | none on the free plan; time series starts on Professional |
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| free requests | 1k a month, 60 an hour |
| history depth | back to 1999 on Standard per the pricing page; 1990 per the home page |
Unknown values 1
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer