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ExchangeRate-API

ExchangeRate-API is a currency exchange rates API providing authoritative daily and intraday foreign exchange rates for 161 currencies. The v6 surface includes Latest, Pair, Enriched, Historical, Supported Codes, and Quota endpoints, plus a no-API-key Open Access endpoint at open.er-api.com that requires attribution.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles ExchangeRate-API the way a machine reads it — 91 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — ExchangeRate-API scores 55.6/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 37/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 55.6/100 · strong
Contract Quality 18.9 / 25
Access Clarity 12.4 / 20
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
ExchangeRate-API Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile ExchangeRate-API

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ExchangeRate-API. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 10

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

ExchangeRate-API Enriched Data API

Pair conversion enriched with target currency locale, name, symbol, and flag (Business / Volume plans only).

ExchangeRate-API Historical Rates API

Historical exchange rates for a specific date back to 1990 (Pro / Business / Volume plans only).

ExchangeRate-API Latest Rates API

Standard endpoint returning latest exchange rates from a base currency to all supported currencies.

ExchangeRate-API Open Access API

Free no-key endpoint with once-daily rates and attribution requirement.

ExchangeRate-API Pair Conversion API

Direct currency-to-currency exchange rate and optional amount conversion.

ExchangeRate-API Quota API

Inspect the remaining request quota for the API key.

ExchangeRate-API Supported Codes API

List of all supported ISO 4217 currency codes with their full names.

ExchangeRate-API Account API

API quota and account information

ExchangeRate-API Currencies API

Supported currency codes and metadata

ExchangeRate-API Exchange Rates API

Real-time and historical currency exchange rate endpoints

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Postman Collections 1

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 9

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

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Arazzo Workflows 6

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

ExchangeRate-API Codes to Conversion

Discover supported currencies, pull latest rates, then convert a specific pair.

ARAZZO

ExchangeRate-API Enriched Pair Display

Build a display-ready conversion with currency name, symbol, and flag.

ARAZZO

ExchangeRate-API Historical Amount Conversion

Convert an amount as it would have valued on a specific past date.

ARAZZO

ExchangeRate-API Latest vs Historical

Compare a base currency's latest rates against its rates on a past date.

ARAZZO

ExchangeRate-API Pair Amount Conversion

Validate currencies against supported codes, then convert a specific amount.

ARAZZO

ExchangeRate-API Quota Guarded Rates

Check remaining quota, then use the keyed endpoint or fall back to open access.

ARAZZO

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Pricing Plans 2

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 2

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Exchangerate Api Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Exchangerate Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 2

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 8

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Latest Rates

Get latest exchange rates from a base currency to all 161 supported currencies.

Pair Conversion

Direct currency-to-currency rate lookup with optional amount conversion.

Enriched Data

Pair conversion plus target currency locale, name, symbol, and flag.

Historical Rates

Exchange rates for any date back to 1990 (with full coverage from 2021).

Supported Codes

Full ISO 4217 currency code listing with names.

Open Access Endpoint

No-API-key endpoint at open.er-api.com with once-daily updates and attribution.

99.99% Uptime SLA

Pingdom-measured uptime exceeded 99.99% during 2024.

161 Supported Currencies

Comprehensive coverage of world fiat currencies.

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Semantic Vocabularies 2

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Exchangerate Api Context

0 classes · 32 properties

JSON-LD

Exchangerate Context

10 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

ExchangeRate-API API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

ExchangeRate-API API Rules

8 rules · 7 errors · 1 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 9

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

EnrichedPairResponse

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HistoricalRatesResponse

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LatestRatesResponse

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OpenAccessResponse

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PairResponse

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QuotaResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SupportedCodesResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExchangeRate-API Schemas

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 8

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Exchangerate Api Enriched Structure

11 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Exchangerate Api Error Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Exchangerate Api Historical Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Exchangerate Api Latest Rates Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Exchangerate Api Open Access Structure

11 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Exchangerate Api Pair Structure

11 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Exchangerate Api Quota Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Exchangerate Api Supported Codes Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 10

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Exchangerate Api Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Exchangerate Api Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Exchangerate Api Agentic Access

9 operations

9 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 7

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

E-commerce Multi-currency Display

Show product prices in the visitor's local currency on storefronts and checkout pages.

Cross-border Invoicing

Convert invoice totals to the customer's billing currency at the time of invoice issuance.

Financial Reporting

Translate revenues, costs, and balances across currencies for consolidated reporting.

Travel & Booking Platforms

Show flights, hotels, and packages in the user's home currency.

Personal Finance Apps

Convert account balances and transactions across currencies for travel and expense tracking.

AI / LLM Agent Currency Tools

Expose currency conversion to AI agents via MCP servers and tool-use frameworks.

Historical Backtesting

Use 30+ years of historical rates to backtest trading strategies and FX exposure scenarios.

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Integrations 5

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Python

Use ExchangeRate-API from Python applications via the documented HTTP API.

Node.js

Community Node.js SDK published by EloquentStudio for first-class JavaScript integration.

PHP / Java / Ruby / C# / Perl / Objective-C

Documented sample code for major server-side languages on the ExchangeRate-API docs site.

Spreadsheets

Pull rates into Google Sheets and Excel via HTTP request functions.

MCP Servers

Community-built Model Context Protocol servers expose ExchangeRate-API as a tool for LLM agents such as Claude.

Solutions 4

Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.

Packaged solutions this provider offers.

Free Tier

Self-serve evaluation with 1,500 requests/month and daily updates.

Pro Tier

Production-grade tier with 30,000 requests/month and hourly updates.

Business Tier

Higher-volume tier with 125,000 requests/month, 5-minute updates, and Enriched Data access.

Volume Tier

Highest-volume tier for high-traffic applications and aggregators.

Resources

Every other property we hold for ExchangeRate-API — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of ExchangeRate-API, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

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