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The Free Currency Converter API


Convert one currency to another that returns result in json format.

Please check the documentation for more information on how to use the API

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Free Forex API Rate Limits

Currency Pairs per Request: 2
Number of Requests per Hour: 100
Date Range in History: 8 Days
Allowed Back in History: 1 Year(s)

Free API key needs to be renewed on a monthly basis. You will be emailed with the link to renew once your API key has expired.

Abusers will be banned from the free service. Please do not abuse this free service and be responsible with your program code. Make sure your program doesn't spam the free servers so that others may use it too. Thank you.

More About Free Foreign Exchange Rate API

Free Currency Converter API started in year 2014, it's now 2024 and we're up ever since. It offers free web services for developers to convert one currency to another. You are free to use this for personal or commercial application however it offers no warranty (See license below for more information).

Currency values are updated every 60 minutes. If you need a realtime web service or a service that updates more frequently, you may checkout the premium service at CurrencyConverterAPI.com.

If you're using the free exchange rate API in production, I highly advise you to have a fallback. One possible fallback are the premium and prepaid servers, as they are completely separate from the free servers and won't get affected with interruptions from the free servers. Or better yet, make the premium your main one and the free API as the fallback.

Convert queries accepts a maximum of 2 conversion parameters to avoid abuse of the service and to help maintain the health of the web services. Free API keys are also limited to one IP address. If you need more than the limit or if you need a large amount of requests, you may contact me for more information or check the faster and production-ready server at CurrencyConverterAPI.com.

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Please, please, please do not abuse the free currency exchange API as many other people are using it (see terms and conditions of using the free service). Be considerate or you will be blacklisted from the free service. Please consider the premium service at currencyconverterapi.com if you need many requests in an hour. The limit for this service is 100 per hour.

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License

I don't know how to license web services, so below is the closest terms I could think of. In short, this service is free even for commercial use. Using the services here will cost you nothing, $0; it is free as in beer! If you appreciate this, you could buy me a coffee.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Manny

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.