Commodity Price API

CommodityPriceAPI is a REST JSON API that delivers real-time and historical market rates for 130+ commodities — including gold, silver, WTI crude, Brent oil, and natural gas — with updates as frequent as every 60 seconds and historical data back to 1990-01-01.

What is Commodity Price API?

CommodityPriceAPI is a developer-focused web API that provides live and historical commodity prices in a simple JSON format. It accepts commodity symbols (e.g., XAU, WTIOIL-FUT) as input, along with optional date or currency parameters, and returns structured JSON with rates, metadata, and timestamps. The API runs on cloud infrastructure and is offered by CommodityPriceAPI (sign up at commoditypriceapi.com). Historical data covers most commodities since 1990-01-01, with open, high, low, and close prices.

Key Features

• 130+ Commodity Symbols — covers metals (XAU – gold, XAG – silver, HG – copper), energy (WTIOIL-FUT, BRENTOIL-FUT, NG-FUT – natural gas), and more; each symbol includes its unit (e.g., T.oz, Bbl, MMBtu) and default quote currency in the response metadata.
• Real-time & Historical Endpoints — six REST endpoints: latest (current rates), historical (single date), time-series (date range up to 1 year), fluctuation (change and percent change), symbols (full list), and usage (quota tracking).
• Flexible Authentication — pass your API key via a query parameter (apiKey) or an HTTP header (x-api-key). Keys are obtained from the Dashboard after signing up.
• Custom Quote Currency — Plus subscribers can request rates in any of 175+ currencies by adding a quote parameter. Lite users receive rates in the commodity’s default currency (typically USD).
• 60-Second Updates (Plus Plan) — the Plus tier refreshes rates every 60 seconds; the Lite tier updates every 10 minutes. Each symbol’s updateInterval is listed in the /symbols response.
• Unlimited Free Trial — no credit card required. Sign up and get an API key immediately, with access to all endpoints under Lite‑plan limits.

Who is it for?

• Fintech and trading app developers who need to embed live gold, silver, or oil prices into dashboards or trading interfaces.
• Financial analysts tracking commodity trends who require historical open/high/low/close data for reports and spreadsheets.
• Energy and metals traders building automated systems that poll the API every 60 seconds (Plus plan) for WTI crude or natural gas futures.
• Data scientists performing time‑series analysis on 130+ commodities, using the /rates/time-series endpoint with a 1‑year range.

What can you do with Commodity Price API?

• Real‑time price monitoring — call /rates/latest?symbols=xau,wtioil-fut every minute (Plus) to display live gold and crude oil prices on a web or mobile dashboard.
• Historical trend analysis — use /rates/time-series?symbols=ng-fut&startDate=2024-01-01&endDate=2024-12-31 to obtain daily open/close data for natural gas over the past year.
• Fluctuation tracking — run /rates/fluctuation?symbols=xag&startDate=2024-10-01&endDate=2024-11-01 to compute the percentage change in silver prices for a monthly investment report.

Pricing

CommodityPriceAPI uses a freemium model with an unlimited free trial (no credit card required). Paid tiers are Lite ($15.99/month) — 2,000 calls/month, 10‑minute updates, up to 5 symbols per request, 10 requests/minute rate limit — and Plus ($34.99/month) — 10,000 calls/month, 60‑second updates, up to 10 symbols per request, no rate limit, and custom quote currency selection. Annual billing is available (2 months free). Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel anytime.

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