{
  "name": "CurrencyBeacon",
  "slug": "currencybeacon",
  "website_url": "https://currencybeacon.com",
  "vendor_description": "\"Currency exchange-rate API for developers and AI agents\"",
  "categories": [
    "currency"
  ],
  "summary": "CurrencyBeacon is a REST API providing live and historical exchange rates for 167 fiat currencies and over 14,000 crypto assets, with data sourced from 20+ central banks and Forex providers and history stretching back to 1996. It targets developers and AI agents building checkout systems, dashboards, and financial reporting tools. Pricing starts at $10/month with a free tier of 5,000 requests, and higher plans unlock faster refresh rates down to real-time. Customers include Coca-Cola, Deloitte, and Careem, and an MCP server is available for agent integrations.",
  "capabilities": {
    "supported_actions": [
      "latest_rates",
      "historical_rates",
      "convert",
      "timeseries",
      "currencies_list",
      "get_account_usage"
    ],
    "supported_regions": [
      "167 fiat currencies (ISO 4217)",
      "14,471 crypto assets (separate crypto endpoint)",
      "historical data from January 1, 1996",
      "data sourced from 20+ central banks and commercial Forex providers",
      "mid-market rates blended algorithmically from multiple sources",
      "precious metals not included",
      "update frequency: hourly (free/Developer Sandbox), 15-minute (Production Starter), 1-minute (Growing Teams), real-time (Scale Plan)"
    ],
    "supported_languages": [],
    "input_types": [
      "currency code (ISO 4217)",
      "base currency",
      "symbols filter",
      "date (YYYY-MM-DD)",
      "amount",
      "from currency",
      "to currency",
      "start_date",
      "end_date"
    ],
    "output_types": [
      "JSON"
    ],
    "webhooks_supported": false,
    "sandbox_available": false,
    "sdk_languages": [
      "Go"
    ],
    "mcp_server_available": true
  },
  "integration": {
    "api_style": "rest",
    "base_url": "https://api.currencybeacon.com/v1/",
    "api_version": "v1",
    "versioning_scheme": "url",
    "stability": "ga",
    "deprecation_policy_url": null,
    "auth_methods": [
      "api_key"
    ],
    "auth_docs_url": "https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation",
    "idempotency_supported": false,
    "error_format": "vendor-specific",
    "webhook_signing": null,
    "webhook_events_url": null,
    "rate_limit_requests": null,
    "rate_limit_window": null,
    "sdk_packages": [
      {
        "package": "currencybeacon-go-sdk",
        "language": "Go",
        "official": true,
        "repo_url": "https://github.com/currencybeacon/currencybeacon-go-sdk"
      }
    ],
    "mcp_url": "https://api.currencybeacon.com/mcp",
    "quickstart_url": "https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation"
  },
  "pricing": {
    "pricing_model": "subscription",
    "has_published_pricing": true,
    "starting_price_usd": "10.0000",
    "price_basis": "month",
    "free_tier_available": true,
    "free_tier_limit": "5,000 requests/month",
    "free_tier_details": "Developer Sandbox plan: $0/month, 5,000 API requests per month, hourly rate updates, includes latest/historical/conversion endpoints, community support only.",
    "minimum_commitment": null,
    "self_serve_signup": true,
    "requires_sales_call": false,
    "requires_verification": false,
    "enterprise_plan_available": true,
    "price_points": [
      {
        "plan": "Developer Sandbox",
        "item": "API access",
        "amount_usd": "0.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "month",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Developer Sandbox",
        "item": "5,000 API requests included",
        "amount_usd": "0.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "month",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Production Starter",
        "item": "API access",
        "amount_usd": "10.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "month",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Production Starter",
        "item": "API access (annual)",
        "amount_usd": "100.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "year",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Growing Teams",
        "item": "API access",
        "amount_usd": "99.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "month",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Growing Teams",
        "item": "API access (annual)",
        "amount_usd": "900.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "year",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Scale Plan",
        "item": "API access",
        "amount_usd": "599.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "month",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Scale Plan",
        "item": "API access (annual)",
        "amount_usd": "6500.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "year",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing"
      }
    ]
  },
  "compliance": {
    "soc2": null,
    "hipaa": null,
    "gdpr": false,
    "iso_27001": null,
    "pci_dss": null,
    "sla_published": true,
    "sla_url": null,
    "data_retention_policy_url": "https://currencybeacon.com/terms",
    "documented_rate_limits": null,
    "known_restrictions": [
      "Data caching limited to 8 hours maximum",
      "Redistribution prohibited: may not scrape data for use in another website, software, or digital/print product",
      "Resale of API data or product prohibited",
      "Attribution required: must credit CurrencyBeacon in terms or about page when reproducing returned data",
      "Timeseries endpoint only available on Growing Teams (Startup) and Scale Plan (Professional) plans",
      "Base currency switching only available on Growing Teams and Scale Plan",
      "Guaranteed uptime SLA only on Scale Plan (Professional)"
    ]
  },
  "developer": {
    "docs_url": null,
    "api_reference_url": "https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation",
    "openapi_spec_url": null,
    "postman_collection_url": null,
    "changelog_url": null,
    "status_page_url": "https://status.currencybeacon.com",
    "llms_txt_url": null,
    "markdown_docs_url": null,
    "rendering": "static"
  },
  "adoption": {
    "launched_at": null,
    "ga_date": null,
    "github_stars": null,
    "github_stars_at": null,
    "notable_customers": [
      "WooCommerce",
      "Coca-Cola",
      "Columbia Sportswear",
      "Careem",
      "Zoover",
      "Deloitte"
    ]
  },
  "scores": {
    "agent_friendliness": 50,
    "pricing_transparency": 100,
    "setup_speed": 75,
    "docs_quality": 20,
    "procurement_friction": 100,
    "trust_readiness": 20,
    "best_for": [
      "Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call",
      "AI agents and automation - an agent-ready surface (MCP / llms.txt)",
      "Cost-sensitive teams - low, transparent entry price"
    ],
    "avoid_if": [
      "You have strict compliance requirements"
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "field": "vendor_description",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com",
      "excerpt": "Currency exchange-rate API for developers and AI agents",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_actions",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation",
      "excerpt": "/v1/latest, /v1/historical, /v1/convert, /v1/timeseries, /v1/currencies",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_regions (fiat currencies count)",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/supported-currencies",
      "excerpt": "167 distinct fiat currencies listed with their codes, names, and symbols (ISO 4217 currency codes)",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_regions (historical data depth)",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/about",
      "excerpt": "historical end-of-day rates back to January 1, 1996",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "mcp_server_available",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/mcp",
      "excerpt": "Each successful tools/call counts as one request against your CurrencyBeacon API usage",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "pricing_model",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Production Starter $10/month ($100/year)... Growing Teams $99/month ($900/year)... Scale Plan $599/month ($6,500/year)",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sla_published",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Guaranteed uptime SLA [listed as a feature of the Scale Plan / Professional tier]",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "gdpr",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/privacy",
      "excerpt": "No explicit GDPR references found. Policy was last updated December 9, 2018 and contains no GDPR compliance claims.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "soc2 / hipaa / iso_27001 / pci_dss",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/terms",
      "excerpt": "No references to SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or PCI DSS certifications",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "known_restrictions (redistribution)",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/terms",
      "excerpt": "You can not scrap[e] the our data to use in another website / software or any digital / print product",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "known_restrictions (resale)",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/terms",
      "excerpt": "Re-selling our Product or parts thereof to another party",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "self_serve_signup",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/register",
      "excerpt": "Registration form collects name, email, password; supports Google and GitHub OAuth login.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "api_version",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation",
      "excerpt": "https://api.currencybeacon.com/v1/ ... Version 1.0.0 with 99.99% uptime SLA",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "versioning_scheme",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation",
      "excerpt": "https://api.currencybeacon.com/v1/ — version is embedded in the URL path",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sdk_packages",
      "url": "https://github.com/currencybeacon/currencybeacon-go-sdk",
      "excerpt": "CurrencyBeacon golang library — repository under the currencybeacon GitHub organization, GPL-3.0 license",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "free_tier_limit",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Developer Sandbox (Free) — Price: $0.00/month — Requests: 5,000 API requests — Update frequency: Hourly",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "price_basis",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Basic (Production Starter) — Price: $10.00/month; Startup (Growing Teams) — Price: $99.00/month; Professional (Scale Plan) — Price: $599.00/month",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "error_format",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation",
      "excerpt": "Standard JSON with meta object (code, disclaimer) and response containing rate data with timestamps. Error codes: 401 Invalid/missing API key, 403 Plan doesn't support resource, 404 Endpoint not found, 429 Rate limit exceeded, 500 Server error",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "field": "requires_verification",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/register",
      "excerpt": "Registration form collects name, email, password (12+ character requirement); supports Google and GitHub OAuth login. No additional verification step documented before API key access.",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_actions",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/mcp",
      "excerpt": "get_latest_rates, convert_currency, get_historical_rates, get_time_series, list_currencies, get_account_usage",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_regions (crypto assets count)",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/cryptocurrencies",
      "excerpt": "Showing 1-100 of 14,471 crypto assets",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_regions (data sources)",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/about",
      "excerpt": "currency rates algorithmically from multiple reliable sources, ensuring fair and unbiased consistency",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "free_tier_available and free_tier_details",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Developer Sandbox - $0/month or $0/year. 5,000 API requests monthly. Hourly updates. Latest, historical, and conversion rates. Community support.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "enterprise_plan_available",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing",
      "excerpt": "For enterprise-level needs, the company offers custom request volumes, invoice billing, and technical account support through their sales team.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sla_published",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation",
      "excerpt": "Version 1.0.0 99.99% Uptime",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "soc2 / hipaa / iso_27001 / pci_dss",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/privacy",
      "excerpt": "No references to SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or PCI DSS certifications",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "known_restrictions (caching)",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/terms",
      "excerpt": "You can not cache / store / persist the data returned from our API for more than 8 hours",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "known_restrictions (attribution)",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/terms",
      "excerpt": "credit us in your terms or about page",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sandbox_available",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation",
      "excerpt": "No sandbox or test environment is mentioned. Only production API access is documented.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "base_url",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation",
      "excerpt": "All API requests should be made to this base URL: https://api.currencybeacon.com/v1/",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "auth_methods",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation",
      "excerpt": "Two methods supported: 1. Query Parameter: Append api_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY to request URLs. 2. HTTP Header (Recommended): Pass as Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_KEY",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "mcp_url",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/mcp",
      "excerpt": "claude mcp add -t http currencybeacon \"https://api.currencybeacon.com/mcp?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY\"",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sdk_packages",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/code-samples",
      "excerpt": "These examples are plain HTTP on purpose. Use them directly, or turn them into your own SDK layer.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "starting_price_usd",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Basic (Production Starter) — Price: $10.00/month — Requests: 50,000 API requests — Update frequency: 15-minute intervals",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "notable_customers",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com",
      "excerpt": "The platform lists these trusted organizations: WooCommerce, Coca-Cola, Columbia Sportswear, Careem, Zoover, and Deloitte.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "data_retention_policy_url",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/terms",
      "excerpt": "We may remove or delete Your Data 90 days after the termination of your relevant Subscription Term, or upon your request.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "launched_at",
      "url": "https://currencybeacon.com/about",
      "excerpt": "CurrencyBeacon began over 10 years ago as a currency log before becoming CurrencyBeacon. The exact founding year is not specified.",
      "confidence": "low"
    }
  ],
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    "documented_rate_limits (per-minute/per-second request throttle not published)",
    "soc2",
    "hipaa",
    "iso_27001",
    "pci_dss",
    "sdk_languages (code samples exist for multiple languages but no official SDK libraries beyond Go)",
    "launched_at",
    "ga_date",
    "deprecation_policy_url",
    "sla_url",
    "rate_limit_requests",
    "rate_limit_window",
    "webhook_signing",
    "webhook_events_url",
    "idempotency_supported"
  ],
  "source_confidence": "high",
  "last_verified_at": "2026-06-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "contribute": {
    "note": "This data is crowd-editable. Suggest corrections or leave a review via these endpoints - no auth required, requests are rate-limited, and every submission is reviewed before it goes live. For a field edit, {field} is any key in this response and a citation is required.",
    "endpoints": [
      {
        "action": "review",
        "label": "Leave a review or comment",
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://apio.sh/api/feedback/currencybeacon",
        "example_body": {
          "kind": "review",
          "rating": 5,
          "body": "Your experience with this API…"
        }
      },
      {
        "action": "field_edit",
        "label": "Suggest a correction to a field (cite a source)",
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://apio.sh/api/suggest/currencybeacon/{field}",
        "example_body": {
          "value": "corrected value",
          "citations": [
            {
              "url": "https://source.example/page",
              "excerpt": "supporting quote"
            }
          ],
          "note": "what changed and why"
        }
      },
      {
        "action": "new_api",
        "label": "Suggest a new API to add",
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://apio.sh/api/suggest/api",
        "example_body": {
          "value": {
            "name": "Acme API",
            "website_url": "https://acme.example"
          },
          "citations": [
            {
              "url": "https://acme.example"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      {
        "action": "token",
        "label": "Optional - raise your rate limit",
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://apio.sh/api/feedback/token"
      }
    ]
  }
}